Biology (age 14-18) eBook

Lesson plan and student worksheets

3522

Data Harvest

Product Description

A 400 page eBook containing a comprehensive collection of over 70 practical Biology activities for the 14-18 age group supported by detailed Teacher's notes, these activities provide reliable data from which patterns and trends can be explored.

This eBook, as part of the Secondary Teaching Materials (10 ebooks), contains:

  • The full eBook (PDF) of all the experiment worksheets and teachers notes.
  • Every worksheet and teacher note as a separate PDF
  • Setup files to match these experiments are included in the EasySense1 software

The 70 activities cover these areas: 

  • Human Physiology
  • Plant Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Applied Biology
  • Food science
  • The Environment

    The activites include:

    • Pulse
    • Armchair gymnastics
    • Not only exercise excites the heart
    • Food as fuel
    • Citrus power
    • Rate of consumption of O2 as measure of respiratory activity
    • Rate of production of CO2 as a measure of respiratory activity
    • Temperature changes as a measure of respiratory activity.
    • Measuring respiration (effect of temperature)
    • Gas production in yeast fermentation of sucrose
    • The uptake of oxygen as a measure of photosynthetic activity
    • Growth in a plant, as a measure of photosynthetic activity
    • Regulation of body heat
    • Hot stuff!
    • How does sweating keep you cool?
    • Should I use deodorant or antiperspirant?
    • Why do animals huddle?
    • 18/19 Reaction times and Hit the brakes
    • Measuring the daily changes in a habitat
    • Osmosis
    • The effect of temperature on membrane permeability in beetroot
    • Residual heat: Thermal imaging.
    • Residual heat: Finding where a natural disaster survivor is buried
    • Relationship between temperature and radiated energy
    • How good is my suntan cream?
    • How does photosynthetic activity vary with light intensity?
    • Photosynthesis and respiration
    • Transpiration: Measuring water loss from plants
    • Transpiration: Measuring by mass loss
    • Transpiration: Differences between leaf surfaces
    • Transpiration: Measuring by pressure change (photometer)
    • Does water loss in a plant change its physical size?
    • Protease and casein reaction
    • How does enzyme activity change with temperature?
    • How does enzyme activity change with pH?
    • Change of enzyme activity with substrate concentration?
    • Cobalt as an inhibitor of a protease activity
    • Determination of the Michaelis constant
    • Amylase and starch reaction
    • How does enzyme activity change with temperature?
    • How does enzyme activity change with pH?
    • How does enzyme activity change with substrate concentration?
    • The breakdown of starch by the enzyme amylase
    • Heart beats
    • ECG graph demonstration
    • ECG Scope demonstration
    • Heart beats (Polar Heart rate sensor)
    • Breathing patterns
    • Lung capacities
    • Peak Flow
    • Flow volume loops
    • Colorimetric determination of glucose concentration
    • Effect of glucose concentration on the colour of Benedict’s solution
    • Acid base titration: polyprotic acids
    • Why does fruit brown when exposed to air?
    • Rate of reaction: Which catalyst is best?
    • The rate at which catalase breaks down
    • Acid base Titration: Titration of alanine with sodium hydroxide
    • Biology enzymes: Juice extraction from apples
    • Control of body temperature’s response to hot and cold
    • Regulation of body temperature due to exercise
    • A womb with a view: A quick scan (model of ultrasound imaging)
    • A womb with a view: The whole view (model of ultrasound imaging)
    • Effect of sunlight on carbon dioxide levels around a plant
    • Carbon dioxide levels in the classroom
    • How does carbon dioxide vary in the environment?
    • A model of the green house effect
    • How does pressure change with depth? How deep is my pond?
    • How tall am I?
    • The role of buffers in biological systems
    • Muscle fatigue using the Light gate
    • Muscle fatigue using a Force sensor
    • Daltons law of partial pressures
    • Heat transfer in a heat exchanger – co and counter current

    The range of sensors used includes:

    • Temperature (3100)
    • Temperature fast response (3101)
    • Heart rate and Pulse waveform (3147)
    • Polar Heart rate (3148)
    • ECG (3279)
    • Oxygen sensor (3130PK)
    • pH sensor (3125PK)
    • Gas Pressure ±10 kPa and Breathing belt (3190PK)
    • Carbon dioxide (3152)
    • Humidity (3145)
    • Drop Bubble Counter (3266)
    • Colorimeter (3275) 
    • Voltage (3160 or 3160-12)
    • Infrared (3278)
    • Ultraviolet (3277)
    • Rotary Motion (3280)
    • Motion (3270)
    • Light level (3124 or 3122, 3120)
    • Force (3143)
    • Spirometer (3267)
    • Balance and Balance adaptor (3060 or 3065)
    • Push button switches (3261)
    • Timing mat (3255)