Students need to arrive to the lesson having complete the pre reading.
Starter - Students recal their knowledge of mitosis using diagrams of the phases
Starter - Students compare mitosis and meiosis
Main - Students complete exam questions where they are required to draw diagrams
Plenary - Kahoot quizzes
Lesson 3 of an 8 part series. This lesson guides the students into planning an investigation and writing a method
Lesson includes a guided powerpoint and the related worksheets, plus links to the videos that are needed
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Lesson to guide through moments in balance, including questions and a practical aimed at KS5 for those with high ability sets. Answers to the W/S included.
Lesson starts with a couple of questions on previous topics to check embedded understanding.
Students are then taught about matter and antimatter, with worked examples of pair production and annihilation. Students are then to complete a worksheet which includes exam questions. All the answers are on a worked sheet.
Students complete pre reading prior to the lesson.
Main objective for this lesson is to look at exam technique by looking at some pre-written answers to questions and determining why they lost marks
Students complete the pre reading prior to starting the lesson
Starter 1 – Students answer the 4 mark question on “What is a species”
Starter 2 – Students get a card, they have to find their partner
Main activity – Videos and teacher input to then answer the exam questions
Plenary – Students in pairs try to remember the 6 marking points for species and courtship
You may need to rename the video files to have the .flv file extension, or load them in VLC player. Either way will get them to play if you find they can't play normally, although, you shouldn't have issues.
Students complete the pre reading before they arrive at the class as this is a flipped lesson.
Starter students sort themselves into groups based on the card they are given
Main students have a piece of pre-mRNA and make different splicing patterns, then create the a.a sequence from these and have an exam question to answer
Plenary students participate in a Kahoot.
A variety of stations which are self assessing and cover the whole topic.
Task examples include:
Mark the answers
Answer the questions
Model with lego
Draw the pyramids
This booklet contains one Level 2 and one Level 3 question per topic in B1. The front cover allows the students or the teacher to track their common mistakes.
The booklet also contains a set of relevant 6 mark questions at the back, including a scaffolded writing sheet.
Also attached is the raw word document which contains the answers to the questions
Standalone lesson and flipped lesson included in this resource, including the pre reading sheets.
Question sheet, with answers
Exam questions with mark scheme
Interactive starter
Students complete the flipped learning (attached) prior to the lesson. They then arrive and complete a variety of tasks.
Starter - Odd one out, with reasons why
Main - Labelling EM images of cells
Plenary - Exam Questions
Students complete the pre reading prior to the lesson (pre reading included)
Starter - Students check their understanding of standard form and the use of micro, nano and milli
Main - Menu of activities for students to complete their weakest areas first
Plenary - Check understanding based on what they didn't know at the start of the lesson
Students arrive at the lesson having completed their pre reading, and creating a resource for the lesson
Starter - Recap on the previous topics in this chapter, and then recap on KS4 knowledge
Main - Variety of tasks enabling students to identify the stages of mitosis
Plenary - Exam questions on this topic
Posters of information about each stage should be spread around your room. Students then use the template to determine the order of the life cycle. They are then required to answer one or both of the 6 mark questions. This takes a double lesson with me.
Students complete the pre reading prior to arriving at the lesson
Starter - Activities to label a Plasma Membrane and to recall the definition of Active Transport
Main - Activities to describe active transport, compare it to Osmosis and Diffusion and then look at exam questions
Plenary - Summarise all three transport pathways
Three activities to revise P2.2
- Dice game - Rules explained on powerpoint
- Tarsia puzzle - In the ZIP file
- Splat board - Questions are on the second powerpoint