I am a biology teacher who has many years’ experience working in the social care sector including managing care homes and home care services. I have been teaching health and social care and science since 2015, mostly to level 3 students. I believe learning is an active process helped by visualization of the processes. I create visual resources for both health and social care and science including BTEC and Cambridge Technicals in health and social care, BTEC applied science and GCSE biology.
I am a biology teacher who has many years’ experience working in the social care sector including managing care homes and home care services. I have been teaching health and social care and science since 2015, mostly to level 3 students. I believe learning is an active process helped by visualization of the processes. I create visual resources for both health and social care and science including BTEC and Cambridge Technicals in health and social care, BTEC applied science and GCSE biology.
For BTEC level 3 Health and Social Care unit 3: Anatomy and Physiology
This 9-page illustrated notebook on the renal system is available in both printable and editable PDF to allow for choice and comes with a completed version.
Research has proven that students learn best when notes are written in their own words. This is partly because students have to think more clearly about the topic when they have to put it into words whichthey would not do if they copy from a PowerPoint. It is also because they are more likely to understand it later if it is in their own words. This notebook encourages students to write their own notes whilst guiding them on what to write the notes about.
It is designed to be used alongside other learning activities about the topic. It can also be used as a revision aid where students can try to complete the pages from memory.
Biology is a subject that benefits from a good imagination in order to visualise the structures and processes involved. The high quality illustrations used in this notebook enable students to develop good visualisations to help them learn.
The renal system notebook includes:
Diagrams of the renal system and kidney to label
Diagram of the nephron to label
Functions of the different sections of the nephron
Details of how the loop of Henle builds salt concentrations in the medulla
Details of the countercurrent multiplier effect
Details of the effect of ADH on the nephron
Disorders of the renal system
A test your knowledge system at the end.
For BTEC level 3 Health and Social Care unit 3: Anatomy and Physiology
This 6-page illustrated notebook on the endocrine is available in both printable and editable PDF to allow for choice and comes with a completed version.
Research has proven that students learn best when notes are written in their own words. This is partly because students have to think more clearly about the topic when they have to put it into words whichthey would not do if they copy from a PowerPoint. It is also because they are more likely to understand it later if it is in their own words. This notebook encourages students to write their own notes whilst guiding them on what to write the notes about.
It is designed to be used alongside other learning activities about the topic. It can also be used as a revision aid where students can try to complete the pages from memory.
Biology is a subject that benefits from a good imagination in order to visualise the structures and processes involved. The high quality illustrations used in this notebook enable students to develop good visualisations to help them learn.
The endocrine notebook includes:
Diagram of location of different glands to label
Role of hypothalamus
Hormones of the pituitary gland
Hormones of thyroid and parathyroid glands
Hormones of the adrenal gland
Hormones of the ovaries and testes
Hormones of the pancreas
Disorders of the endocrine system
A test your knowledge page at the end.
Notes or revision book for unit 1 Human Lifespan Development for BTEC level 3 Health and Social Care. The book can be used to write up notes as students go along or be used to write up what they remember later as revision. The notebook allows notes to be focused to what is needed for the exam.
Revision workbook for B1 of unit 5 (Principles and Applications 2) Applied Science BTEC level 3. Ventilation and gas exchange.
This 11-page notebook can be used for notetaking during lessons to encourage students to make their own notes rather than copying from a PowerPoint. Students will have to think carefully to make relevant notes on the different topics.
Alternatively, this notebook can be used for revision purposes by encouraging students to fill in the sections without looking at their notes. The test your knowledge page at the end also serves to check their understanding.
A completed notebook is available as well as a self-test version so that students can check their answers against sample answers by clicking a link.
The revision notebook includes the full requirements of the specification including:
• The structure of the respiratory system
• Function of smooth muscle in airways
• Function of mucous membranes
• Alveoli and gas exchange
• Pleural membrane function
• Mechanism of ventilation
• Respiration
• The need for ventilators for some people
• Peak flow meters and readings
• Spirometer readings and calculations
• A test your knowledge page
Other revision notebooks available for this unit:
• Cardiovascular system
• Urinary system
• Cell transport mechanisms
Illustrated revision notebooks are also available for Principles and Applications 1 (unit 1).