The best Biology teachers on YouTube
Biology has a reputation for being the "easy" science - that is right up until students are faced with a 6-mark question on the nervous system and a mark scheme that wants precise, structured detail.
The good news is that Biology has one of the strongest teaching communities on YouTube, with qualified teachers turning complex, dense specification content into videos that help make sense of the complexity.
We've rounded up five of the best Biology teachers and creators on YouTube right now.
MyEdSpace teachers with their own YouTube channels
Two of MyEdSpace's own Biology teachers run a YouTube channel together alongside their live lessons, which act both as a valuable revision resource - but also a window into how they teach.
LauraDoesBiology (Laura Armstrong)
Laura Armstrong brings more than 17 years of teaching experience and deep exam board expertise to her GCSE and A-level Biology content.
Both Laura’s parents were teachers, and she credits her early experiences with her own brilliant teachers for showing her what good teaching looks like, something that shines through in how encouraging and clear her videos feel.
Before joining MyEdSpace, Laura had seriously considered leaving teaching altogether, and has spoken about how the move reignited the enthusiasm for teaching she'd had right at the start of her career.
For GCSE and A-level Biology students who want a teacher who's rediscovered why she loves the subject, Laura is a great watch. 
JoeDoesBiology (Joe Wolfensohn)
Joe Wolfensohn holds a first-class BSc in Biochemistry from Queen Mary University of London and bringing more than five years of teaching experience.
After finishing his A-levels, Joe toyed with a career in medicine, before realising partway through the application process that it wasn't the right path for him, and turned to teaching instead.
Joe has talked about sparking genuine curiosity in a bottom-set Year 10 class who started the year only aiming for a grade 4, watching them grow into students who asked real, engaged questions about the subject, which says a lot about his teaching style.
Outside the classroom he's a keen climber, and that same patient, one-step-at-a-time approach shows up in how methodically he builds up an explanation.
For GCSE and A-level Biology students who want a teacher who genuinely enjoys sparking curiosity, Joe's channel is well worth a look.
EmmaDoesBiology (Emma Williams)
Emma Williams spent two decades teaching in the classroom before joining MyEdSpace, having taken an unusual mix of Art, Biology and Chemistry at A-level herself.
Emma has talked about a student who came to her at the end of the year to say she was going on to study Biology at university, after Emma had 'opened up her brain' to the subject, which is the kind of moment she describes as her reason for teaching.
For GCSE and A-level Biology students who'd rather remember a story than memorise a fact, Emma's channel is well worth a look.
Independent Biology YouTubers worth knowing
Beyond MyEdSpace's own teachers, Biology has a strong independent creator community built by teachers who've stepped away from the classroom to focus on online teaching full time.
Biology with Olivia
Olivia taught GCSE and A-level Biology in the classroom for three years before leaving to focus full time on Biology with Olivia, a decision she's described as scary but one that let her help far more students than she could reach in a single classroom.
Her content is built around exam technique specifically, with "Model Answer Notes" created from years of analysing mark schemes and examiner reports to show students exactly what earns marks and what doesn't.
That focus has taken her content well beyond YouTube alone, growing to reach over 500,000 followers across platforms, and led to work with organisations including the Department for Education and an invitation to visit 10 Downing Street.
Miss Estruch (MissEstruchBiology)
Miss Estruch, known to her students as Katie, has been a Biology teacher since 2009 and started her YouTube channel to support her own students outside of lessons, before it grew into a resource used by students everywhere during the pandemic.
In 2017, she was nominated for the Royal Society of Biology's Secondary School Biology Teacher of the Year award, coming joint second.
Her own path through school wasn't easy, her GCSEs were significantly disrupted by chronic illness and she was hospitalised during both her A-levels and university, which gives her genuine insight into supporting students who are juggling more than just the subject itself.
Her channel covers the entire A-level Biology specification in detail, including required practicals and the maths skills that trip up so many Biology students, making it a particularly complete resource for A-level students working through content methodically.
FreeScienceLessons
FreeScienceLessons, run by Shaun Donnelly, is one of the biggest science channels in the UK, having grown to well over 900,000 subscribers and hundreds of millions of views since launching in 2012.
The channel covers the full range of GCSE and A-level Biology, with clear, no-frills topic videos that have become a genuine staple of GCSE revision for an entire generation of students.
Shaun has built the channel around the idea that quality teaching shouldn't sit behind a paywall, summed up in the channel's own guiding line that education is a right rather than a privilege, and that ethos comes through in just how much is available completely free.
Getting the most out of Biology YouTube
These channels are genuinely excellent free resources, and if your child needs to nail down a specific process or exam technique the night before a test, they're often exactly the right tool.
What's harder to get from a video is the back-and-forth of a real lesson: asking why an answer lost a mark, getting feedback on a specific misconception, or having a teacher notice a gap in understanding before it becomes a habit. That's where live, interactive teaching comes in, and it's what MyEdSpace's Biology courses are built around, with our expert Biology teachers running live lessons, workbooks and practice questions, all the way from Key Stage 2 Science, through to A-level Biology.
If your child already enjoys learning from one of the teachers above, there's a good chance they'll enjoy learning from them in live lessons too.
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