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
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Colour coded knowledge organiser.
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Labelled heart diagram - colour coded pic and labelling
Right side function - colour coded
Left side function - colour coded
Artery, vein and capillary pictures, transport direction
How arteries branch into capillaries back into veins
Table of different between the three vessels
Worksheet created for students in an SEN school.
Included:
Draw the structure of DNA, ATCG pairing
Describe the structure of DNA
Draw a punnet square
label a sperm and egg cell
inherited and environmental traits
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Independent worksheet created for students in an SEN school
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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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Independent worksheet created for students in an SEN school
Included:
Infographic on Alleles and Inheritance
TASK 1 - 10 x questions based on this
TASK 2 - Punnet square completion, starts easy then gets harder
Answers to task 1 included - teachere should model answers to task 2
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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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Independent work created for students in an SEN school.
Included:
information on 4 stages,
hormones LH, FSH, Oestrogen and Progesterone.
Graph displaying hormone levels and uterus lining thickness.
10 questions with answers at the end
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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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Very simple revision mat created for SEN students in year 10 covering topics:
Animal and plant cells
Organelle functions
Labelling a microscope
Image size and Total magnification calculation only [no rearranging]
How to use a microscope gapfill
diffusion, osmosis and active transport definitions
PRACTICAL - Osmosis in potatoes, very basic
What independent, dependent and control variables are
Percentage change in mass calculations
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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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 was created for Yr11 students in an SEN school, 50 minutes
Included:
2 x worksheets on slide 1 and 2, unblurred when bought
Starter activity labelling an animal cell
Career link
Computers [binary code] and DNA link
What DNA is and why its important
DNA as a double helix - quick check, which is the correct shape
DNA base pairing
ACTIVITY - fill in the other DNA strand code
DNA has a strong backbone with bases held by weak hydrogen bonds
ACTIVITY - add the bonds to the previous activity, add bonding and backbone labels
Genome as the entire DNA of an organism
ACTIVItY gapfill bsaed on picture
Independent task - complete the missing information on the DNA strands and describe the structure of DNA using the picture to help you
All answers
Plenary - true/false
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This resource was created for Yr11 students in an SEN school, 50 minutes.
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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 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 was created for students in an SEN school - 50 minutes long.
***Edited to include all answers, an additionally final check activity [storyboard gapfill],better picture for current atmosphere, better questions for devonian period
Included:
What the atmosphere is
Geological periods of the earth - this will be beyond their understanding, briefly explain that the age of earth is given names same as humans e.g. baby, toddlers, teen etc
The Hadean Eon and atmosphere composition of Earth
ACTIVITY - Pie chart completion, 2 questions based on prev slide
The Archaen Eon and changing atmosphere of the Earth [decreasing volcanic activity, earth cooling]
ACTIVITY - Gapfill activity
Devonian Period and changing atmosphere of the Earth [plant evolution]
Photosynthesis definition with picture
ACTIVITY - equation fill in the blank
ACTIVITY - questions on devonian period
Current atmosphere of the Earth
ACTIVITY - Pie chart completion, 2 questions based on prev slide
FINAL ACTIVITY - Story board gapfill of the changing atmosphere over time
Questions are simple. Follows teacher instruction then studen task format
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This is a 50 minute lesson created for Yr11 pupils in an SEN school.
Included:
where blood cells are made
Components of blood
colouring in activity of blood in a vessel
function of the blood parts
matching structure to function
2 x worksheets - print slides 1 and 2 single sided
This is a 50 minute lesson created for SEN pupils in Yr11 in an autistic school
Included:
Starter - identify the white and red blood cells and platelets
What arteries, veins and capillaries are
ACTIVITY - identify whether the vessel is an artery, vein or capillary (table)
Left and right side of the heart - blood in blue and red / double circulatory system
Right side only picture of heart, where the blood goes and comes from
Left side only picture of heart, where the blood goes and comes from
ACTIVITY - add labels to the diagrams of left and right side of heart (lungs/body)
ACTIVITY - which are arteries/veins of the heart
Content - atrium and ventricles
ACTIVITY - identify the left and right sides of the heart - heart is numbered
Plenary - identify atrium, ventricles, arteries and veins
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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 is a year 10 theory lesson for SEN/LAP pupils. This was created after they had created an onion slide.
The focus - how to use a microscope, prepare a slide and calculating total magnification (there is no triangle or rearranging equations).
Included:
Starter - what can you see under a light microscope
Hook - career link
Content and presentation - parts of a light microscope, how to use a microscope correctly, how to prepare a specimen slide, how to calculate total magnification (you can put a picture of their slide up for this bit)
Main worksheet with quick check for understanding
Independent task 1 - why do we use light microscopes, true/false microscopes table, calculating total magnification from objective and eyepiece, additional two questions.
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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.