BTEC health and social care anatomy and physiology disorders revision game

Disorders revision game for BTEC health and social care unit 3: anatomy and physiology

The anatomy and physiology unit includes nearly 40 disorders for the students to learn. The exam will cover a number of these, but it is anybody’s guess which ones will turn up. This revision game offers more than one way to help students commit all these disorder to memory in a fun way. The disorder cards can be played as a board game which includes elements of competition and luck to make learning fun or they can be used individually by students to learn the disorders. The game includes 39 disorder cards with information about the disorder on one side and just the name on the other.

The board game includes the traditional start and finish squares and different requirements for landing on particular squares. Some squares are gray and can just be landed on without any need to answer a question. Other squares allow the student to roll the die again so as to advance further along the board. The other squares require the student to state specific facts about the disorder on the next card in the pile. If they do not get the answer correct, they must stay on the square they are on and not advance. The squares may ask for the category of the disorder which means they must identify the body system it is a disorder of, or whether it is a genetic or congenital disorder or a dysfunction of homeostasis. Other squares require an overview of what the disorder is and other squares ask for symptoms of the disorder. Some squares require all three aspects of the disorder to be identified by the student.

Students can use the disorder cards for individual revision by laying down 9 of the cards face down in three rows of three. They must start at the top right and state information about the disorder. If correct they can keep the card face up, if incorrect they must turn it over again. Students cannot revisit this disorder until they have gone through all of the cards. How long will it take to learn all 9 of the cards? To make it easier, students can learn different aspects of the disorders at a time such as category, overview or symptoms.

If you would like more revision games for this unit, why not try the anatomy and physiology revision game bundle which includes different games for each of the different topics for this unit.