Life Processes and Living Things

Using the Programme

All the programmes in this series can be used:

• By a class watching part of the programme and attempting the question at the end of the section before seeing the answer.
• As an introduction to a lesson involving work on sample questions (including those in the Activities section).
• As part of a lesson involving other revision activities, eg demonstration, concept maps and group poster summaries.
• As an introduction to a lesson including interactive questions using the Internet (see Links).
• After an assessment to focus on an area that many students found difficult.
• By a group of students as part of a circus of activities.

The various parts in the programme Life Processes and Living Things can be used in the following ways:

• Cell structure - with diagram sheets and a blank table for the functions of parts of the cell and a second table for differences between animal and plant cells.
• Moving the human body - with skeleton or diagram sheets. Balloons can be attached to the skeleton or the diagram labelled with the biceps and triceps.
• Reproduction in humans - to label diagrams of the male and female reproductive systems. Students can make a flow diagram of the process of fertilisation.
• Breathing - with a diagram of the breathing system. Students can make revision posters summarising the effects of smoking.
• Classifying animals - with a table of the five vertebrate groups. Students complete the characteristics and example columns while watching the video. A circus of specimens or photographs can be used to extend the activity.
• Feeding relationships - with a diagram of a food web. Students label the different feeding groups and extract food chains before drawing pyramids of numbers.