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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

Interactive powerpoint presentation: brain structure and function

This powerpoint presentation is designed for A2 Biology and matches the Edexcel course as it includes sections on brain imaging technology. However it is fairly standard so would suit all exam boards. A key feature of this presentation is that it has interactive drag and drop exercises so gets the students up to the white board. It also has lots of links to relevant short videos and websites. It also includes a mini quiz to help revise the structure and functions of parts of the brain, students can just write their one word answers on scrap paper. I have also included worksheets to fill in during the presentation and some notes pages in case students are absent etc. Note: if you want to incorporate the drag and drop exercises into your own presentation you will have to modify this presentation and add your own stuff to it, the slides will not copy and paste into other presentations without the drag and drop macro.

PRESENTATION: brain-drag-and-drop

WORKSHEETS: The brain

NOTE SHEETS: Structure and function of the brain notes

A2 Biology: transcription factors PowerPoint presentation

This is a short presentation about transcritpion factors and matches the Edexcel Concept approach textbook (although this textbook is not needed to use the presentation). Obviously it is possible to insert activity and question slides wherever appropriate (eg. last slide for Edexcel activity sheets). The presentation has animations and works best in conjunction with the Hormones and performance enhancing drugs presentation. Personally I would introduce transcription factors first then cover hormones, though the textbooks do it the other way round. If you choose to do it my way then the last activity slide needs to be deleted or transferred to the hormones presentation.

PRESENTATION: Transcription Factors