Congratulations!

Well done all my A Level Biologists, lots of A* and A grades and a few narrow misses. Proud of you all and good luck to the Year 13 leavers in their Uni courses.

GOOD LUCK

 Just want to wish all the students taking exams this year lots of luck!

corrections to brain drag and drop presentation

Just a quick note to anyone who has already downloaded the brain drag and drop presentation (before 10/01/11). There were some errors and difficulties with some of the interactive elements which I spotted during my A2 lesson. Well, actually my students spotted them and took great pleasure in pointing them out! Anyway I have corrected these and the presentation now has been updated (same link as before). Just to remind people with the drag and drop activities you simply click on the image or word, do not hold the button down, move the shape to where you want then click again to release it.

Apologies for any inconvenience: especially to any teachers who did what I did and used the old version first lesson back after the holidays…but at least it amused the students.

Also do use the short video links for the medical imaging, these seemed to go down well. I didn´t use the first long TED video link as they had already seen it (my class are TED addicts) but I have added a link to a new TED video in the last slide looking at the use of fMRI technology to explore brain functioning and music.

In addition I found the weblinks to the 3D brain and the lobes also very useful and actually produced the best parts of the lesson.

I will be adding a couple more interactive presentations soon but want to run them through the whiteboard and student critics first. If you have not already signed up to my RSS feed then please consider doing so. I don´t post too often so won´t fill up your inbox but you wil then get emails everytime I do add a resource. Most are generic topics and transferable to various exam boards or can be easily adapted.

sorry again for the errors,

Allison

A Level Biology: mutations PowerPoint presentation

This is a short and simple presentation to illustrate the dfferent types of possible mutations. A lot of simple animations and short informative information slides. The last summary slide can be used as a verbal summary or as a written activity for the students.

Link to presentation:

mutations

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!

Edexcel and IGCSE Biology exams this week. Just want to say good luck to all the students and also to all the teachers chewing their nails at the back of the exam hall hoping fervently the paper is okay. I remmeber last years IGCSE and the HUGE question on the nephron. I really panicked as I worried the students only revised from their text books (which didn’t include the nephron) rather than my notes. It did catch a few students short but most knuckled down and gave it their best shot.

This year is the first year that the IGCSE is so late. Normally it is around my birthday (9th of May) and so the students are really hyped up and ready. I saw my students this week and they seem to have one eye already on the lazy summer ahead rather than the Biology. I do hope they haven’t gone of the boil as my lot could do very well this year.

Anyway…once again…GOOD LUCK!!!