Virtual Communities
Science virtual communities
Join our free online sessions and enhance your teaching. Meet with other science teachers, exchange ideas and share best practice.
Join our free online sessions and enhance your teaching. Meet with other science teachers, exchange ideas and share best practice.
In the video below, Ed Walsh, an Advocate and AQA CPD trainer, explains how our virtual communities can help you and your department.
Here you can view and download resources from our past virtual community events.
To see resources and materials from older sessions, go to our archive page.
GCSE Science: Virtual communities spring 2023 presentation (1.1 MB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities spring 2023 resources booklet (9.0 MB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities spring 2023 facilitation pack (689.6 KB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities autumn 2022 presentation (666.3 KB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities autumn 2022 resources booklet (6.8 MB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities autumn 2022 facilitation pack (262.1 KB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities spring 2022 presentation (1.3 MB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities spring 2022 resources booklet (4.8 MB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities spring 2022 facilitation pack (308.9 KB)
All subjects: Virtual communities spring 2022 programme information (349.9 KB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities autumn 2021 presentation (1.6 MB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities autumn 2021presentation with notes (1.2 MB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities autumn 2021 resources booklet (2.8 MB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities autumn 2021 facilitation pack (356.1 KB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities summer 2021 presentation (454.9 KB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities summer 2021 resource booklet (4.1 MB)
Maths in science (287.7 KB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities spring 2021 presentation (1.6 MB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities spring 2021 support booklet (4.5 MB)
GCSE Science: Comments on student responses (333.3 KB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities autumn 2020 presentation (1.1 MB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities autumn 2020 supporting materials (3.1 MB)
GCSE Science: Virtual communities spring 2020 presentation (4.3 MB)
Booklet 1: Guidance, student examples and commentaries (8.5 MB)
Booklet 2: Extracts from GCSE Science schemes of work (492.6 KB)
Booklet 3: Extracts from GCSE Science specifications (4.1 MB)
Booklet 4: A brief guide to virtual community resources on the AQA website (330.5 KB)
Maths skills in science: precision and decimal places
Maths skills in science: significant figures
Mock analysis: GCSE Combined Science Trilogy Paper 1 (69.5 KB)
Our virtual community events are run by AQA science specialists. The aim of these sessions is to improve your understanding of the specification and support your teaching. Each term, you will get to chat to teachers in your subject area and discuss the things that are really important to you.