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Solutions, solubility, and solubility curves explained through a stubborn spoonful of sugar, Week 2 of our home education GCSE Chemistry course.

States of matter, particle theory, and diffusion explained through everyday kitchen smells — Week 1 of our home education GCSE/iGCSE Chemistry course.

Free Week 12 GCSE/iGCSE Biology lesson: gas exchange in plants, a stomata leaf-peel practical, and the century-long puzzle of how trees pull water skyward.

Free Week 11 GCSE/iGCSE Biology lesson: aerobic and anaerobic respiration, an exercise/pulse-rate practical, and the phlogiston myth that fooled science for a century.

Free Week 9 GCSE/iGCSE Biology lesson: photosynthesis, limiting factors, a pondweed practical, and the 17th-century willow tree experiment that got it half right.

This week puts ratio to work in real-world contexts: scaling recipes with direct proportion, working out which supermarket deal is actually better value, reading scale drawings and maps, and converting between units of measurement — some of the most genuinely useful skills in the whole course.

Unit 3 begins: Ratio & Proportion. This week covers what ratio actually means, how to simplify it, share an amount using one, and solve problems when you're only given part of the picture — genuinely practical maths that shows up everywhere from recipes to exchange rates.

Welcome to a full two-year, self-paced GCSE Maths course for home-educated students — covering the whole AQA and Edexcel syllabus from basic arithmetic to Higher tier. Here's how the weekly structure works, what you'll need, how assessments run, and why it's completely okay to take your time.

The final week of Unit 2: algebraic fractions with multiplication and division, then two days pulling everything together — mixed problem solving and forming equations from real-life situations, before a self-directed review and the Unit 2 assessment.

Week 7 extends brackets and factorising into two new directions: expanding two brackets at once, and rearranging a formula to make a different letter the subject. We finish with algebraic fractions, treating expressions with letters exactly the way you already treat ordinary fractions.

Week 6 takes last week's multiplying skills and applies them to brackets — expanding by multiplying everything inside a bracket, then the reverse process, factorising. We finish by forming algebraic expressions from written descriptions, putting the whole week's skills to use.

Unit 2 begins: Algebra. This week covers the notation itself, simplifying expressions by collecting like terms, substitution, and multiplying/dividing terms — the same rules of arithmetic you already know, just written in a more general way. Same tiered format, warm-ups that build on what you already know.

Free GCSE/iGCSE Biology Unit 1 assessment: 20 questions with mark scheme, covering cell biology, microscopy, bacteria, viruses & stem cells (Weeks 1–6).

Bacteria, Viruses, and the Question of What Counts as Alive The Big Question This Week "If something can infect you, reproduce, and even evolve, but isn't made of cells and can't survive on its own, is it actually alive?"

What Is Every Living Thing Actually Made Of? If you want to use the templates to help you record your work, download them now and print them out. They may not fit perfectly with every week, and you may need extra pages to record some answers, especially when you need to draw a diagram or graph. The Big Question This Week "If you had to build a living thing from scratch using only chemistry, where would you start?" Write this in your learning journal as a title before you begi

"If someone shrank you down to the size of a single cell, what do you think you'd actually see?"

What makes something alive? Week 2 of our iGCSE Biology course explores the seven characteristics of life, the twelve levels of organisation from atom to biosphere, and the famous Miller-Urey experiment that asked whether life could arise from chemistry alone. Includes video links, journal prompts and a 10-question practice set.

A free, complete two-year iGCSE Biology course written for real home educating families. Year One covers the full content through videos, experiments, scientist stories and journal prompts. Year Two builds exam confidence through practice questions and technique — all at your own pace, however your family needs it.

Week 1 of our home education iGCSE biology curriculum. The scientific method, hypothesis vs theory, controlled experiments, and the scientists who changed everything.