Coordination and response.
Nervous system and Reflexes GCSE/iGCSE:
Reflex arc/Synapses/neurones/CNS/PNS
Card sort - Starter activity covering new born baby reflexes + answer sheet. Shows one context of reflexes for survival.
Worksheet - Grid following reflex arc stages to be completed with letters or written answers + answer sheet.
3.Role play - Whole class activity; students make life sized neurones. Fun energetic activity with minimal resources + quick fire quiz at end. Power Point Instructions. Can also be used as a starter activity.
4.Students have two 1 minute activities to talk to each other about what they know. PowerPoint assisted.
PowerPoint with tasks and answers.
Mineral nutrition in plants iGCSE/GCSE:
PowerPoint is 29 slides offering video clips, missing words paragraph, plenary quiz, 60 second timer for thinking activity, all answers included, guidance notes in footnotes of slides.
Worksheet covers nitrate, phosphate, potassium, magnesium deficiency symptoms in plants. Worksheet is a cut and stick activity requiring students to select the correct answers and draw and color plants. Answer sheet is available as word document and included in the presentation.
Key words:
ion
mineral ion
cultivate
hydroponics
magnesium
potassium
phosphate
nitrate
agriculture
yield
deficiency
botany
chlorophyll
Tropic responses in plants - Includes 4 resources:
1. Worksheet 1 - Introduction to phototropism, geotropism and hydrotropism.
2. Worksheet 2 - Phototropism experiment results considering stem detectiion of light stimulus.
3. Worksheet 3 - Geotropic response of stems and roots; considering bending and auxin distribution.
4. Starter / topic introduction - moving Venus fly trap image and video clip weblink.
NB, answers are included for all worksheets.
Reproduction in plants - The worksheet has been differentiated into different activities
-Card sort, 25 words with definitions, with teacher answers to share with class- high level of difficulty
-Key words, definitions provided and students write keyword in box - medium level of difficulty
-Cross word, with answers -high level of difficulty
-Wordsearch, with answers - low level of difficulty
Summary lesson for the end of the unit, revision, homework, cover lessons or class worksheets.
Key words included are:
fruit
cross-pollination
monocotyledon
asexual reproduction
wind dispersal
testa
zygote
animal dispersal
dicotyledon
pollen grains
sexual reproduction
germination
cutting
fertilization
plumule
shoots
cotyledon
mitosis
ova
seed
radical
self-pollination
dormant
roots
dispersal
80 PowerPoint slides covering:
What is a habitat, community, environment, population, ecosystem? - includes match up boxes task.
Polar bear and camel adaptations - includes video hyperlink; includes match up boxes task.
Daily and seasonal changes.
Adaptations of predators and prey - includes video hyperlink.
Food chains and food webs - includes interactive activity hyperlink; includes animated/moving slide.
Variation and selective advantage - includes drawing and thinking task.
Inherited and environmental variation -includes whole class activity.
Classification of living organisms.
Vertebrates.
Invertebrates - Includes 10 question quiz with answers; includes anagrams activity.
PowerPoint presentation covering urinary system excretion. Covers kidney structure and function, nephron structure and function, osmoregulation and ADH. Activities in the slides includes students filling in missing words from paragraphs, recalling parts of the kidney from the first letter, drawing the urinary system, spinning the wheel activity, short suggested homework, hyperlink to You Tube video. One worksheet activity involves cut and stick.
Approximately 40 photographs and pictures of common science laboratory apparatus used by students in secondary schools at KS3 and KS4. Each picture is accompanied by a separate name plaque. When used as a wall display students can use it as a reference point to use the correct nomenclature for apparatus during practicals. This resource could be used as whole class or paired flash cards or group work card sort. The nature of the resource make it appropriate for KS3 use or use with lower ability KS4. It is a generic resource that helps students to learn the names of lab. equipment in general throughout their course of study.
Title plaque - Scientific apparatus
Name plaques -
beaker
splint
spatula
stirring rod
measuring cylinder
tripod
petri dish
boiling tube
crucible gauze
pippette
test-tube
Bunsen burner
test-tube rack/holder
conical flask
funnel
stopclock
tongs
round bottom flask
thermometer
safety goggles
microscope
scalpel
mass/masses
slotted masses
balance
boss
clamp
stand
mortar
pestle
bung
delivery tube
gas jar
bell jar
voltmeter
ammeter
trough
side arm flask
Under the national curriculum for England Science KS3 this forms part of 'Working scientifically' subsection 'Experimental skills and investigations'
'use appropriate techniques, apparatus, and materials during fieldwork and laboratory work, paying attention to health and safety
make and record observations and measurements using a range of methods for different investigations; and evaluate the reliability of methods and suggest possible improvements'
IB DP Biology - Analysis of data on risks to monarch butterflies of Bt crops.
Resources:
1. PowerPoint presentation covers Bt corn, European corn borer, Monarch butterflies, includes news article and graphical data.
2. Practice data analysis exam questions - 10 pages
3. Answers to exam questions
This lesson is well placed to be taught immediately following a lesson on 'Gene transfer to bacteria using plasmids makes use of restriction endonucleases and DNA ligase'
Keywords: Bt crops, Bacillus thuringiensis, corn, maize, monarch butterflies, genetics, gene transfer, European corn borer , monarch caterpillars, larvae, pollen, milkweed, GM crop, insecticidal toxins.
3.5 Genetic modification and biotechnology
IB DP/A Level Biology
Resting potential, Action potential, Synaptic transmission
Resource 1 - Whole class starter activity PowerPoint. Quick, fun, kinesthetic activity.
Resource 2 - The task is a model/game. Students have two tasks to complete. Paired or individual activity.
Resource 3 - Worksheet 5 pages of multiple choice questions with answers.
Key words: ion, propagate, potential difference, channel, threshold, mV, polarise, repolarise, depolarise, synapse, resting potential, action potential, synaptic transmission, synapse.
This pack will serve students well as a revision lesson that allows students to recap and consolidate their knowledge on action potentials.
Learning objective: Understand the function of the eye in focusing near and distant objects and in responding to changes in light intensity.
Accommodation and Iris reflex.
1. Teacher presentation includes slides on theory addressing the two objectives, web link to online video, quick quiz for each objective with answers to assist assessment for learning, two student copy and complete missing word phrases, two student tasks to construct tables, keywords for both objectives and moving animation on one slide.
2. Student crossword with questions or word search with questions or word search with words provided covering ‘focusing near and distant objects’ provided as a worksheet. Three differentiated option as provided. It is the same worksheet offered in three levels of difficulty.
3. Student fallen puzzle phrase covering ‘responding to changes in light intensity’ and encrypted phrase offered in two levels of difficulty. Answer provided.
Keywords – eye, ciliary muscles, suspensory ligaments, lens, focus, retina, light, convex, dilate, constrict, pupil, iris, circular muscles, radial muscles.
Phagocytosis, T Lymphotcytes & B Lymphotcytes
Includes:
1 x Worksheet
-Introduction
-Non-specific
-Specific
-T Lymphocytes (T Cells)
-B Lymphocytes (B Cells)
-Space for students to draw simple flow diagram
1 x Answers
-Answers on separate sheet