Is it living, non-living or dead?
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Is it living on non-living? Think about your trip to school this morning. What did you see on the way? Did you see any animals, plants or insects? What were they doing? Now think about the things you saw that were not living, like rocks, cars and shoes. What […]
Questions: An Introduction To Classification
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Questions An introduction to classification MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS SHORTCODE SHORT ANSWERS Why do pharmaceutical companies pay for scientists to research and discover new plant species? Answers (Teachers only) Much of modern medicine is built on discoveries in nature. Penicillin is a common antibiotic that we use to combat […]
An Introduction To Classification
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classifications What is classifications? Why do plants look so different, while other look the same with a colour change? Take a rose for example, even though roses can come in so many different colours, orange, yellow, pink, white, red, we still know, it’s a rose. By saying a flower is […]
Questions: 2.1 Cells to systems
Year 7 & 8 TOC Cells to systems Questions Recall Questions Questions/ Activities 1. Explain why cells in multicellular organisms aren’t the same? 2. Explain the cells involved in a plant creating sugar and storing it in their roots. 3. Draw a bacterial cell and a typical animal cell. Label the 2 diagrams and highlight […]
Tissues & organs
Year 7 & 8 TOC Cells to systems Tissues & organs LO: Examining the specialised cells and tissues involved in structure and function of particular organs You’re a multicellular organism, but you’ve probably noticed you aren’t just two or three big cells, and the millions of cells you are made of, are hard to see. […]
Questions: 1.3 Specialised cells
Year 7 & 8 TOC Specialised cells Questions Recall Questions Questions/ Activities 1. Explain why cells in multicellular organisms aren’t the same? 2. Explain the cells involved in a plant creating sugar and storing it in their roots. 3. Draw a bacterial cell and a typical animal cell. Label the 2 diagrams and highlight the […]
Specialised Animal & Plant Cell
Year 7 & 8 TOC Specialised cells Animal & Plant specialised cells Identifying structures within cells and describing their function Multicellular organisms are things like humans, fish, plants etc. They are made of millions of cells! All the cells work together and perform a specific function to keep the organism alive. Specialised animal cells Animals […]
The black plague
WOW SCIENCE The black plague The black plague, also referred to as the black death, ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351. During that time millions of people died! Common questions What caused the black death? The black plague was though to be as a result of the bacterium, Yersinia pestis. The disease used rodents and […]
Cell Division
Year 7 & 8 TOC Specialised cells Cell Division Recognising that cells reproduce via cell division & describing mitosis as cell division for growth and repair Something that all organisms have in common, is their need to replicate or reproduce. Living organisms are constantly making new cells. They replicate to grow, reproduce or replace old […]
Unicellular & Multicellular Organisms
Year 7 & 8 TOC Specialised cells Unicellular & Multicellular Identifying structures within cells and describing their function There are over 8.7 million organisms on earth! Many of them are made up of only 1 cell, these organisms are called unicellular. Unicellular organisms are too small to be seen with the naked eye, but multicellular organisms, […]
