Communicable diseases: Organisms that cause disease & Transmission of pathogens A-level biology OCR

This resource provides you with two lessons of material to enable your students to achieve the following learning objectives:

1. Recall the different types of pathogen that can cause communicable diseases in animals (Grade C)
2. Describe the means of transmission of animal- and plant-communicable pathogens (Grade B)
3. Discuss the factors that affect transmission (Grade A)

The material in the PowerPoint presentation and the accompanying resources is written for the OCR specification Biology A course. There are many different activities including a quiz; creating pathogen profile cards; card sort to link the pathogen, disease and symptoms; matching photos of social scenes with disease; a worksheet on the transmission of malaria (including mark scheme); name that pathogen plenary task; homework suggestions; extension tasks and exam questions.