Science at key stage 3 (Year 8)
Unit 8C: Microbes and disease
Section 6: Checking progress
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Objectives |
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- to recall key points, terms and concepts
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Activities |
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Outcomes |
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Children: |
- Provide pupils with a range of short questions, testing recall of the main types of micro-organism and their uses, the diseases they cause and how infections are transmitted from person to person. Extend for some pupils by asking questions about the ways in which understanding of infectious diseases has depended on our understanding of micro-organisms.
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- show by their responses that the main points have been recalled
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Points to note |
- Teachers may wish to point out that our understanding of the transmission of infectious diseases is by no means complete,
eg the transmission of BSE.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
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