B2.2 Growth and division

Aimed at a mixed ability year 9 class
Could do the practical - but where it falls with teaching my class this im unable to, task to use the method instead

Starter: Students discuss how cells change through the life time of a human
Go through what happens at each stage in life, students then write their own description in their books of what happens at each stage
Stretch: if cells are repaired and replaced and there are stem cells how are people paralysed

Main –
Discuss how plants grow – key words on the board, from discussion get students to write their own definitons for these words, green pen their answers
Turn method for how to clone cauliflower into a storyboard – alternatively you can carry out the practical.
Extension questions if students finish task

Plenary
Explain why a starfish is more like a plant than an animal in terms of its ability to regrow limbs