A presentation suitable for Grades 9-12 looking at acceleration. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Analyze motion in one direction, using the concept of acceleration. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams and perform calculations. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • Acceleration • Equations of Motion • Average Acceleration • Instantaneous Acceleration • Equation of Constantly Accelerated Motion • Acceleration Due to Gravity • Measuring “g”

A presentation suitable for Grades 6-8 looking at clouds. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the importance of water in the atmosphere. Explore how clouds are formed. Explore how clouds affect the weather. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 28 slides covering: • Clouds • What are Clouds? • How are Clouds Formed? • Types of Cloud • Cirrus Clouds • Stratus Clouds • Cumulus Clouds • Clouds and Weather Patterns • Clouds and Weather Fronts • Precipitation • Cloud Cover

A presentation suitable for KS4 looking at ecological pyramids. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Identify how ecological pyramids show the amount of organisms, biomass or energy in each trophic level of a food chain. Main Skills: Interpret written text. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 27 slides covering: • The Origin of Energy • Solar Energy and Producers • Ecological Pyramids • Number Pyramids • Biomass Pyramids • Energy Pyramids Assessment Sheet - Word Document based assessment includes questions that students should be able to answer directly from the presentation, or by applying the information from the presentation. The Assessment Sheet Teachers Guide provides the correct answers and solutions to questions in the assessment.

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the musculoskeletal system and health. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore major diseases affecting the musculoskeletal system. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 17 slides covering: • Malfunctions of the Musculoskeletal System • Osteoporosis • Osteomalacia (Common Rickets) • Leukemia • Muscular Dystrophy • Arthritis • Keeping a Healthy Musculoskeletal System

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the integumentary system. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate the components that make up the integumentary system. Investigate the function of the integumentary system. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • The Skin • The Structure of the Skin • The Epidermis • The Layers of the Epidermis • Keratin • The Cells of the Stratum Corneum • The Dermis • Subcutaneous Layer • Hair • Nails • The Functions of the Integumentary System • The Dermis and Thermoregulation • Sweating • Functions of Hair and Nails

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the integumentary system and health. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate major diseases affecting the integumentary system. Investigate how scientific, medical and technological advances have impacted diseases of the integumentary system. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 31 slides covering: • Eczema • Acne • Degrees of Acne • Treatments of Acne • Vitiligo • Treatment of Vitiligo • Skin Cancer • Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer • Melanoma Skin Cancer • Preventing and Treating Skin Cancer • Alopecia • Treatment of Alopecia

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the natural history of disease. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Identify stages of the natural history of disease and levels of prevention. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 20 slides covering: • Disease • Stage of Susceptibility • Stage of Pre-Symptomatic Disease • Incubation Period • Stage of Clinical Disease • Stage of Recovery, Disability or Death • Natural History of Disease • Disease Prevention • Primary Prevention • Secondary Prevention • Tertiary Prevention • Disease Stages and Prevention Levels

A presentation suitable for KS5 looking at photosynthesis. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the biochemistry of photosynthesis. Investigate the factors that can limit the rate of photosynthesis. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams, understand chemical formulas. Duration: Approximately 60 mins 57 slides covering: • Plants as Energy Converters • The Photosynthesis Equation • Where Does Photosynthesis Occur? • Structure of a Chloroplast • Photosynthesis as Two Groups of Reactions • How the Energy is Used • Light Harvesting • The Chloroplast Pigments • How the Pigments Work Together • The Photosystems • The Two Stages of Photosynthesis • The Hill Reaction • The Calvin Cycle • The Light Dependent Reaction • Photophosphorylation • Thylakoids and ATP Synthase • Cyclic Photophosphorylation • Non-cyclic Photophosphorylation • The Products of Water Splitting • The Light Independent Stage • The Most Abundant Enzyme in the World! • Using ATP and NADPH • The Fate of Triose Phosphate • Limiting Factors of Photosynthesis • Light as a Limiting Factor • Carbon Dioxide as a Limiting Factor • Temperature as a Limiting Factor

A presentation suitable for Grades 6-8 looking at Earth systems. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how Earth systems interact. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • Atmosphere • Hydrosphere • Geosphere • Biosphere • Earth Systems • Interactions • Water and Atmospheric Interactions • Albedo • Ice • Feedback • Snowball Earth • Earth System Feedback

A presentation suitable for Grades 6 to 8, looking at geological time. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how evidence from rock strata can tell us about the history of the Earth. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • Time • Rock Records • Dating Rocks • Relative Dating • The Principle of Uniformitarianism • The Principle of Original Horizontality • The Principle of Superposition • Principle of Cross Cutting • The Principle of Inclusion • Principal of Faunal Succession • Fossils • Relative Dating • Absolute Dating • Geological Time • Precambrian • Cretaceous Period • The End of the Cretaceous Period • Quaternary Period

A presentation suitable for Grades 6-8 looking at ground and surface water. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore sources of ground and surface water. Identify the effects of human activity on ground and surface water. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 35 slides covering: • Water and Life • Fresh Water • Surface Water • Run-off • Watershed • Ground Water • Aquifers • The Water Table • Water Quality • Water Pollution • Effects of Water Pollution

A presentation suitable for Grades 6-8 looking at Earth’s energy balance. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the concept of the Earth’s energy balance. Recognize how changes in the Earth’s Energy Balance affect the global climate. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams, and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 32 slides covering: • Energy • Energy Balance • Atmosphere Gases • The Greenhouse Effect • Upsetting the Earth’s Energy Balance • Radiative Forcings • Earth’s Energy Balance • Radiative Forcings - The Sun • Radiative Forcings - Atmospheric Aerosols • Radiative Forcings - Volcanoes • Radiative Forcings - Greenhouse Gases • Radiative Forcings - Surface Albedo • Forcings and Feedback • Feedback and Water • Earth’s Energy Balance

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the respiratory system and health. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore major diseases that affect the respiratory system. Explore scientific, medical and technological advances that help prevent and treat diseases of the respiratory system. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 29 slides covering: • The Role of the Respiratory System • Asthma • Asthma Inhalers • Bronchitis • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) • Emphysema • Pneumonia • Lung Cancer • Medical Advances to Fight Lung Cancer • Prevention of Respiratory System Diseases • Treatments of Respiratory System Diseases • Surgery to Treat Respiratory System Diseases

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the nervous system and health. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore major diseases that affect the nervous system. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 19 slides covering: • The Nervous Systems • The Peripheral Nervous System • The Autonomic Nervous System • Diseases of the Nervous System • Bacterial Infections: Lyme Disease • Bacterial Infections: Meningitis • Viral Infections: Meningitis • Non-infectious Diseases of the Nervous System • Degenerative Conditions: Alzheimer’s Disease • Autoimmune Conditions: Multiple Sclerosis • Genetic Diseases: Huntingdon’s Disease

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the reproductive system and health. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore major diseases that affect the reproductive system. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 20 slides covering: • The Male Reproductive System • The Female Reproductive System • Infectious Diseases of the Reproductive System • Bacterial Infections: Gonorrhoea • Bacterial Infections: Syphilis • Bacterial Infections: Chlamydia • Viral Infections: Genital Herpes • Viral Infections: Genital Warts • Reducing the Risk of Contracting STIs • Non-infectious Diseases of the Reproductive System • Female Cancers • Male Cancers • Treating Cancer

A presentation most suitable for KS5 looking at the voluntary muscles. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the function and structure of voluntary muscles. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 20 slides covering: • Muscles, Tendons and Joints • Antagonistic Pairs • Controlling Muscles • Skeletal Muscle Tissue Structure • Histology of Striated Muscle • Voluntary Muscle Appearance • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: Z-lines • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: I-band • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: H-zone • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: A-band • Voluntary Muscle Appearance: M-line • Voluntary Muscle Contraction

A presentation suitable for Grades 6 to 8 looking at the formation of crustal features. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Relate plate tectonics to the formation of crustal features. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 30 slides covering: • Tectonic Plates • Plate Movement • Boundary Events • Plate Boundary Types • Convergent Boundaries • Oceanic Trenches • Divergent Boundaries • Sliding Boundaries • Rift Zones and Valleys

A presentation suitable for KS5 looking at reproduction in flowering plants. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore reproduction in flowering plants. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 60 mins 52 slides covering: • Flower Structure - The Perianth • Flower Structure - The Calyx and Corolla • Male Reproductive Organs • Female Reproductive Organs • The Ovary • The Nectaries • Categorising Flowering Plants • The Production of Pollen Grains • The Flowering Plant Male Gametophyte • The Structure of the Ovule • The Embryo Sac as a Spore • Pollination • Pollination - Anthers • Dioecious and Monoecious Plants • Protandry and Protogyny • Self-incompatibility • Special Floral Structure Arrangements • Wind Pollination • Wind Pollination Versus Insect Pollination • Fertilization • Pollen Germination • Development of the Seed and Fruit

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