Video on facilitated diffusion for Edexcel AS Biology

I am so proud! I have managed to make my first little video using Jing which was recommended to me by Jose Picardo of www.boxoftricks.net (excellent site by the way and I recommend adding him in twitter).

I have embedded the video below but there is also a link to a larger and better version stored on screencast.

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If you use it in any of your blogs etc. please add a link to my site. I will be doing a whole series of little 5 minute videos on transport across the membrane so keep an eye out for those.

I am aware of the sound quality (you can hear me quite well but there is also a hum) and will be buying a better quality microphone. I managed not to say “er” too often but I did this by substituting the “ers” with “so”. I am half-irish so I reckon I can be forgiven for saying it, so!

Guided note-taking exercise for AS Edexcel chapter 1.2

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This resource is a booklet of questions and labelling exercises that  works encourages students to work through the chapter in the book in a more thoughful way then simply copying out notes. The questions are not simply comprehension questions but phrased as much as possible like exam questions. This resource is designed to be printed out and filled in by hand. However it would be simple to remove the lines and allow students to type in their answers.