Hi National 4 students,
Here is a link to the Biology bitesize pages for National 4. This is a brilliant resource where you can look up things to help you with home learning, or for revision before an assessment etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/z3ykjxs
Happy learning!
Hi National 5 students,
Here are a couple of links that will take to e-textbooks for this course. These resources are brilliant. Please use them for home learning research, recapping your lesson topics, revision for assessments etc.
https://sites.google.com/a/www.edubuzz.org/nat5biopl/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zync87h
Happy learning!
The Biology Department would like to welcome all pupils back to DGS for the 2013-2014 session. An especially warm welcome to our new S1s and those new to the school!
Hello and Welcome to Dunbar Grammar School’s Biology website. Here you will find links to homelearning tasks, summary notes, dates for assessments, relevant and interesting videos and much more. Go on have a look around…
You can also follow us on Twitter @dgsbiology
It is essential that you practice Extended Response type questions before your exam. It not only prepares you for this type of question but it brings together all of your learning!
Attached is a powerpoint with advice on how to tackle these questions:
The SQA website can be used to access past papers and the marking instructions for these papers. Marking Instructions go back as far as 2004 and each paper has 4 ERs on it so you have plenty to work from!
http://www.sqa.org.uk/pastpapers/findpastpaper.htm?subject=Biology&level=H
The document attached has a list of ERs you can try.
The document attached contains some more challenging extended response questions:
Higher Extended Response Questions – taking it further
This website is very useful – particularly for practice of multiple choice questions!
http://www.alfordacademy.aberdeenshire.sch.uk/subjects/biol.html
One from Mrs Layhe – this website has lots of short questions of various topics in Biology:
http://www.biology-questions-and-answers.com/index.html
Good luck!
The following powerpoint will give you some ideas on how to organise your revision and some top tips on revising!
This is not homework but may be helpful for your revision for the Unit 2 assessment and NAB:- unit 2 data handling
Remember to revise thoroughly and use past papers to practise exam style questions. Also ask for help if there is anything you do not understand before the assessment.