Edexcel GCSE Science PAPER 1 REVISION HT

This is a fully-resourced REVISION lesson which prepares the students for the various types of questions that they can encounter on PAPER 1 of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Combined Science course. The lesson uses a wide range of activities to challenge the students on their knowledge of the content of topics B1 - B5 and has been specifically designed for students taking the HIGHER TIER exam.

The lesson has been designed to take place within a hospital and the students will then visit a number of wards, the pharmacy, the hospital cafe and the museum to allow the following specification topics to be covered:

• Cancer and uncontrolled cell division
• Meiosis and the production of gametes
• Mitosis and the cell cycle
• Sex determination
• The difference between communicable and non-communicable diseases
• The spread of communicable diseases by pathogens
• Diseases caused by the four different pathogens
• The use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections
• Evolution by natural selection in bacteria and animals
• Genetic terminology
• The structure of DNA
• Inheritance of disorders caused by dominant and recessive alleles
• The central nervous system and other structures involved in nervous reactions
• Reflex arcs
• Risk factors of non-communicable diseases
• Osmosis
• Fossils as evidence for human evolution

In order to cater for the different abilities that can be found in Combined Science classes, most of the tasks have been differentiated 2 or 3 ways and there are also step by step guides to walk the students through the more difficult concepts like evolution by natural selection and genetic diagrams.

To maintain engagement throughout the lesson, 8 quiz rounds have been written into the lesson which will challenge the students to work within their teams and compete for a range of team points.

The size of this lesson means that it is likely to take in excess of 3/4 teaching hours to cover the detail as necessary and therefore this allows the resource to be used at numerous points throughout the duration of the course as well as just before the terminal exam.