For our workshop room, we purchased some cheap white boards and then removed the table tops and replaced them with whiteboards.

The next class upped the ante ....

And made a fantastic bilayer from molymods - took them a total of 8 minutes

Following on from glucose...

I divided the class into 4. Gave out the molymods challenged them to make a phospholipid.

6 minutes later... 

Modelling with Molymods is absolutely essential to understanding condensation reactions between monomers and it is something that many students really enjoy.

I recommend that you do this as a whole class activity. 

A few common mistakes with molecules and cells and membranes

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Frequently students fail to learn the vocabulary of Biology. To get a top grade it is essential to know what the words mean in a Biological context (niche, chromosome, chromatid...), and have the confidence to use those words in an exam answer. 

The new linear A level has synoptic questions that will test knowledge and understanding from both years in the same question. Often with looking at experimental data.

I have written and incorporated many socrative quizzes into my classroom teaching. Socrative is free web application (www.socrative.com) where you can set up a teacher account and can very rapidly write multiple choice and short answer tests.