Students should understand what antibiotics are, how they work, what MO’s they target and how resistance spreads. Link to the big question: why are antibiotics important?
Students should understand what competition and adaptation are, and how important it is for animals to adapt to their surroundings.
This links to natural selection with a fun and engaging game for students to get their heads around natural selection and desirable characteristics.
All: Recall that alleles can either be dominant or recessive
Most: Explain why offspring look the way they do in relation to the alleles they inherit
Some: Independently Construct your own Punnet squares to show inheritance in offspring
Students to recap briefly on optimum enzyme function and the pH that amylase functions at its optimum level at.
Includes questions to test knowledge/understanding of the practical. Answers below:
Students should understand extinction, what it is and reasons for extinction.
Understand factors that cause extinction.
Highlight factors that we can do to prevent extinction
For year 8 students, based on competition and adaptation. Students should understand the concepts of competition and adaptation, what animals and plants compete for and why it is important for them to adapt to their environment.
Suitable for Year 7 students, based on activate textbook 1.
Students should understand concepts of ‘The Body’ and use the instructions and boardgame template and questions to help them out. Students can design their own questions if necessary, too.