SCIENCE AND HUMAN MIGRATION
This lesson is a key stage 3 or 4 lesson (Year 7 to Year 10) that is 60 minutes long. This was developed as part of a culture day lesson linking science with culture.
Included:
Starter – what is culture
6 x A3 printout information hunt detailing Pakistani, Bengali, British, Eastern European (with Poland), Nigerian and Indian cultures. This links culture to astronomy, traditional medicine, blood types and Japanese personality types and human migration.
Content & Presentation – Astronomy, human migration, blood types
Independent Practice: Questions include:
Timeline of human migration from East Africa
Keyword table from different cultures
How astronomy links to agriculture
Tickbox exercise for blood types
what traditional medicines are used to treat illness.
Markscheme included
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
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This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
State the importance of photograph 51
Describe what the x-ray diffraction experiment revealed about the structure of DNA
Explain the role of scientists in the discovery of DNA
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
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This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Recall what DNA is and why it is needed
Describe the structure of DNA
Explain the importance of genes in genetics
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
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Created for Yr11s in an SEN school - 50 minute lesson
revamped - body as a castle, invaders as pathogens, soliders as immune system
Included:
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Starter - four pathogens
NEW - your body as a castle
ACTIVITY - part of castle link to human physical defence e.g. skin, stomach acid
NEW - pathogens as invaders, immune system as soldiers and dragon with combat rules
What are white blood cells, antibodies, phagocytosis and antibodies
ACTIVITY - white blood cell labelling activity and function gapfill
NEW - phagocytosis link to dragon
Video of phagocytosis
ACTIVITY - Phagocytosis story board creationand gapfill completion
NEW - antibodies as weapons of the soliders
NEW - antigens as colour of invaders and protections making them unique
NEW - invader combat rules
UPDATED - lymphocyte immune response linked to soliders and invaders
NEW - picture gapfill activity of lymphocyte action linked to soliders and invaders, made simpler
Plenary - exit ticket
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Independent worksheet created for students in an SEN school
Included:
2 x paragraphs of information, first on photograph 51 and the second on other scientists.
TASK 1 - Questions based on work of Rosalind Franklin
TASK 2 - Questions based on work of scientists Mendel, Avery, Chargaff, Franklin, Watson and Crick
Answers to tasks
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This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for SEN/LAP pupils
Created for Year 7 or 8 – KS3 – LAP/SEN
Included:
Hook – Career link
Content and presentation – Types of joints, antagonistic muscles, bicep and tricep movement, hamstring and quadricep movement, what muscle contraction is, what tendons and ligaments are
Independent learning activity
Plenary – identify activity
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This lesson is 50 minutes long, for SEN/LAP pupils on the definition of Osmosis.
This has been completely revamped and links to Goldilocks and the three bears building toward the definition of osmosis.
Created for Year 10 – KS4 / Yr12 students completing GCSE biology. 24 slides.
Included:
Starter
Goldilocks and the three bears story link
Solute definition
What a solution is / activity on which is higher the water or salt
Cytoplasm as a solution
Water movement linked to drinking water (lots of water to less water in cells) and waterfalls (moving from a higher place to lower place)
Examples of water moving into and out of cells based on a solution in a beaker and a cell in a beaker - water movement activity
Examples of water moving into and out of cells based on a solution in a beaker and a cell in a beaker - using sugar concentration - water movement activity
Plenary:circle the correct words for Osmosis definition
Tried and tested - kids understood it
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Independent worksheet created for students in an SEN school
Included:
Information and picture on the water cycle
TASK 1 - 8 x questions based on this
Information and picture on the carbon cycle
TASK 2 - 8 questions based on this
Information and picture on the nitrogen cycle
TASK 3 - 8 questions based on this
EXTENSION - students summarise water, carbon and nitrogen cycles and identify the key processes
Answers to tasks 1, 2, 3 included
No answers for extension
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Created for students in an SEN school
Included:
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Starter joke
DNA structure and pairing recap
Cell cycle and human life cycle link
what happens in interphase
mitosis importance
ACTIVITY - true/false on mitosis and cell cycle and interphase
ACTIVITY - fill in table of stages of mitosis [gapfill]
ACTIVITY - identify stages of mitosis, using previous pictures
ACTIVITY - identify real micrographs of stages of cells in mitosis
INDEPENDENT WORK - exam questions
Plenary activity - mitosis stages
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This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for SEN/LAP pupils as part of calculator use practice
Created for Year 10 – KS4 – AQA/Edexcel for students doing GCSE.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation – percentage change in mass calculation, how to break this down and put this in a calculator teacher modelling, you try calculation, link to osmosis and what positive and negative answers mean
Independent learning activity – easy calculations with percentage change in mass (again to practice using calculators)
Plenary – identify the correct calculation
Editted on 13/11/20 to include activity on whether water moves into or out of cells, and gapfil on whether cells swell, burst, shrink or wilt. Percentage change in mass calculation editted throughout to say starting mass, rather than initial.
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This lesson was created for students in an SEN school and is 50 minutes long
Included:
What Carbon is
Aerobic respiration - ACTIVITY - Create word equation from sentence
Photosynthesis - ACTIVITY - Create word equation from picture
Combustion - ACTIVITY - Create word equation from sentence
Decomposition - what this means
ACTIVITY - identify the keyword from the description
The carbon cycle - picture
Whole class check - what is the process in the picture
ACTIVITY - identify the process by numbers in the picture
Independent questions - very simple
Plenary - identify, describe, explain the parts of the carbon cycle. Can be done as an exit ticket where students pick one to answer
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This lesson is 2 x 50 minute lessons, for SEN/LAP pupils. Split into two lessons.
Created for Year 10 – KS4.
First Lesson -
Starter
Recap – plant cells
Risk assessment
Practical explanation
Equipment labelling activity
Independent, dependent and control variables
Second lesson -
Percentage change in mass
Experiment conclusions (after 24 hours)
Worksheets – print slide 1 to 2 for first lesson
- print slide 3 for the second lesson
This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for MAP pupils in an SEN school. Will more suit mainstream students.
Created for Year 9 – KS3 – AQA/EDEXCEL
Included:
Content and presentation – Anaerobic respiration, strenuous exercise, lactic acid, oxygen debt
Independent check for understanding tasks – worksheet 1
Comparing aerobic and anaerobic venn diagram
Strenuous vs steady exercise, with Usain Bolt and Mo Farah as examples.
Extension task - worksheet
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This lesson is a key stage 4 lesson (Year 10) that is 60 minutes long.
Can be used for higher ability year 9 pupils or Year 10
Success criteria:
State what an allele is
Describe the difference between genotype and phenotype.
Explain homozygous and heterozygous genotypes.
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x2 printed as A5 booklet
Print 2 pages per sheet, double sided
Short lesson on mutations
Included:
Keyword recap - phenotype, variation, alleles, genotype, DNA
RECAP - DNA, chromosomes, genome, genes
Mutations linked to mistakes in recipe
Definition of mutations and link to phenotype
Importance of DNA in making proteins
Genetic variants - substitution, deletion, insertion, duplication and nonsense
Whole class check for understanding of examples of mutations in DNA
Independent worksheet and answers
Plenary - exit ticket
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This is a Year 10 lesson created for SEN/LAP pupils
The focus is only on how to calculate actual size from image size and magnification. There is no triangle or rearranging equations.
Included:
Starter - scientific drawing of a white blood cell
Recap - how to calculate total magnification
Content and presentation - how to calculate actual size, examples given: an Ant and Leonardo DiCaprio
Independent task 1 - actual size table completion and a question
Independent task 2 - using rulers to calculate actual size from images of 8 cells
Plenary - calculation actual size question
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Answers included for independent task 1. Not for task 2 as this is dependent on how you print. The lines for where to place the ruler are included.
This resource was created for Yr11 students in an SEN school, 50 minutes.
Included:
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Cells as the smallest units of life - linked to bricks
Animal cell structure
ACTIVITY - labelling an animal cell
Plant cells structure
ACTIVITY - Use the previous slide to label a different picture of a plant cell
Video on plant and animal cell structure function
ACTIVITY - table completion of organelle functions
Independent task - label the cell structures of picture, then apply this to labelling an animal and plant cell slides, tick where the organelles are found
Plenary
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This lesson is 60 minutes long, success criteria:
State what is meant by puberty
Describe what happens to parts of the body during puberty and adolescence.
Explain the role of sex hormones in puberty
Created for Year 7 - KS3.
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [AFL]
Independent Practice [BSG, Extension] & Markscheme
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheets x1 printed as A5 booklet, slides 1 to 2 Instructions in the notes
Independent worksheet task created for students in Yr10 and Yr11 in an SEN school.
Included:
Paragraph of information on human impacts on environment
Students highlight key information
15 Questions based on paragraph
Answers to tasks included
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Year 7 lesson on Animal cells only for students in an SEN school
Included:
Content and presentation - bricks to houses, cells to people; parts of an animal cell
Activities:
Label an animal cell picture
Label an animal cell slide
Video - Dr Binocs
What do the parts of an animal cell do
You can used prepared slides to have students observe cells if extra time
Print slide 1 for the worksheet