Topic 15.1: Control and coordination in mammals (CIE International A-level Biology)

This bundle contains 7 fully-resourced and detailed lessons that have been designed to cover the content of topic 15.1 of the CIE International A-level Biology specification which concerns the control and coordination in mammals. The wide range of activities included in each lesson will engage the students whilst the detailed content is covered and the understanding and previous knowledge checks allow them to assess their progress on the current topic as well as challenging them to make links to other related topics. Most of the tasks are differentiated to allow differing abilities to access the work and be challenged.

The following sub-topics are covered in this bundle of lessons:

• The structure of sensory neurones and motor neurones
• The transmission of an action potential along a myelinated neurone
• The importance of the myelin sheath
• The structure of a cholinergic synapse
• The roles of the synapse
• The roles of the NMJ, transverse tubules and sarcoplasmic reticulum in the stimulation of striated muscle
• The ultrastructure of striated muscle
• The sliding filament model of muscular contraction

If you want to see the quality of the lessons before purchasing then the lesson on the structure and role of the cholinergic synapse is a free resource to download