Biology Triple Autumn Term

Learners will be taught on a rota on the following topics.

Human health; During this unit learners will get to explore large areas of biology focusing on the important area of human health. This includes everything from how lifestyle can affect one's health, to treatments for different diseases both contributed to from diet and genes along with help and support for those struggling to conceive. Learner’s will get the opportunity to dive deeply and explore different ethics behind decisions made by the NHS and see how new drugs are trailed before release. They will get opportunity to explore ethics, opinions and science info along the way

Human impact; This unit focuses on the impact humans have had on the changing world. We will start by looking at biodiversity and how human activity has affected it such as pollution, deforestation and the destruction of peat bogs. We will look at the human impact on breeding plants and animals and how we have used selective breeding for many years. We will then move onto recapping DNA and look at how humans have used their understanding of DNA to genetically engineer the DNA makeup of an organism for our own benefit such as creating medicines and improving crops. They will finish the unit looking at the ethics on the various topics they have studied, creating arguments for and against human interventions. Triple learners will also look at the human impact on food production looking at food security, how fish stocks are maintained and modern farming techniques. They will look at the role of biotechnology for producing food and medicines. Lastly, Triple learners will also look at how human understanding of DNA has allowed us to clone plants and animals.

Human health and impact

End of unit assessment will consist of a 40 mark test

Midway assessment set by class teacher which could be an exam question

Learners will receive guidance in a variety of ways.  These include marked assessments, reports, feedback in books, 1:1 interaction, Google Classroom.