An engaging lesson presentation which looks at the organs of the human endocrine system, the hormones they release and briefly considers some of their functions. This lesson has been designed for GCSE students but could be used with younger students at KS3 who are studying the different organ systems in the human body.
The lesson begins by looking at the meaning of endo and crine so that students recognise that this is also known as the hormonal system and the hormones are always released directly into the blood. A number of quick competitions have been written into the lesson to maintain engagement and provide opportunities to check understanding in an alternative way to simple questions. This first of these games is called “Any sign of the ENDOCRINE”, where students are challenged to pick the endocrine gland out of a selection of three and then come to board to point to where it would be found on a body outline. The students have to label the diagram on the worksheet included in this lesson and then allocate hormones to 5 of the 6 glands. Time is taken to focus on the pituitary gland and three of the hormones that it releases in FSH, LH and TSH because these relate to the menstrual cycle and the thyroid gland. The final part of the lesson involves students being shown an acronym, HBGT, that they can use in longer answers to ensure that they mention the hormone, blood, the gland that releases the hormone and the target tissue.
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