Nervous system and immune system lesson / revision lesson

GCSE lesson on the nervous system and immune system.
This lesson is mainly student led and assumes previous knowledge of the topics covered

LOs:
To define key parts of the nervous system.
To describe how a signal crosses a synapse.
To explain in detail how a reflex action occurs.

1. Do Now: List the 5 main sensory organs and the stimuli they respond to.
2. Student Activity: Label the nerve cell and explain its features
3. Independent Task: Label a diagram of a reflex arc and explain how a reflex action occurs (6 mark style question)
4. Student Activity: Explaining how nerve signals pass across a synapse
5. Mini-plenary: Quiz on the nerve system
6. Exposition: Pathogens, disease and the immune system
7. Student Activity: How do white blood cells protect us from disease (then correct answers)
8. Student Activity: Vaccination 6 mark exam-style question. What does it involve and how does it protect us from disease? (Then self assessment)
9. Student Activity: Antibiotic resistance using diagrams (Then peer assessment)
10. Plenary: Exam style question on the immune system

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