Action Plan

By Faizan Mirza

Biology teacher

The City School Dk Sr Girls

Goals• To spark students' curiosity and excitement about the world

around them and inculcate 21st century skills

• To motivate students to look beyond their immediate

surroundings • To integrate the aims & concepts of modern contemporary

science• To promote and encourage the use of multiple working

hypotheses by adopting 21st century approaches• To infuse reading and research for fresh insights and relating

these to the curriculum

Long term Goals

• Biochemistry • Bioinformatics • Botany: Plant Physiology Cell Biology • Developmental Evolutionary Biology of Animals • Genetics and Molecular Biology • Microbiology • Molecular Immunology• Neurobiology and Biophysics• Neurogenetics • Neurobiology• Animal Physiology

To conduct a Biology workshop to inculcate in them a broader perspective and experience of the wide array of biological applications that can serve them in their future careers

Instructional Strategies and Tasks

• Provide students with:» Clear tasks» Goals and » Requirement

• Inform them of progress made. • To explain and describe things clearly• Encourage pupils;

» To think, to make connections» To practice and reinforce» To learn from other learners and» To feel that if they make mistakes they will not be ridiculed

or treated negatively• Promote pupil participation through problem solving, questioning, discussion

and “buzz group” activities• Treat all pupil questions seriously and do not intimidate or ridicule

• Promote pupil participation through» Problem solving

» Questioning

» Discussion and

» “Buzz group” activities

• Involve them in producing/researching the latest information for topics like;

• Medicinal Drugs• Drugs of Abuse• Genetic Engineering• Biotechnology• Gene Therapy

• For each topic Students would be divided into various groups with 4 members each and they would be asked to research on any of the Sub-topics. For instance when doing Drugs Use of Abuse students would select the sub-topic from the following depending on their areas of interest.

• Use of antibiotics• Use of analgesics and anaesthetics• Use of Morphine in Medicine• Use and Abuse of depressant drugs• Abusing Opiates• Chew tobacco and Smoking• Use and Abuse of Alcohol• Treating Drug Addicts

• Videos and Animations would be used for re-enforcing the concept behind;– Mechanism of Action of

– Enzymes– Development and progression of atherosclerosis

– Demonstration of– Food tests– Animal Dissected Models– YouTube - Atherosclerosis.avi– Mode of reproduction of microorganisms

– Binary Fission in bacteria– Budding in yeast– Sporulation in Fungi

– Transmission Of: – impulse along a Reflex Arc– Malarial plasmodium

– Functioning of;– Antagonistic Muscle pair: Biceps – triceps– Antagonistic hormones: Glucagon – Insulin– Antagonistic muscles of iris– Suspensory ligaments – Ciliary muscles of eye– Digestion of Egg Cell’s wall by Sperms– Modes of Dispersal of fruits & seeds– Wind Pollination and Insect pollination

– Method of Production of:– Penicillin– Single-cell Protein– Recombinant Insulin Hormone

– Various Photographs and photomicrographs would be shown to the students on multi-media, Such as:

– Difference in structure of Pollen grains of a Wind pollinated and an Insect pollinated flower

– Growth of Mircobial colonies on Agar – Action of Antibiotics on The Microbes– Blood films– Tissue of Respiratory Passageway– Various parts of the Human brain

– Hemodynamics and mode of blood flow– Circulation Tissue Fluid– Absorption Of Digested Food– Transpiration stream And Translocation of Food

• Curriculum-Based: – Blogs would be made on various topics– Closed groups would be made on facebook

– Where:

» the students would have a chance to interact with each other and the teacher, share information, collaborate ideas and gain Knowledge.

» the students would be asked to keep a follow up of the assignments posted and solve the queries therein.

Challenges and SolutionsLack of Availability ofMulti-media

The authorities will be foretold

Students may have difficulty following MS-office

A workshop to be conducted by myself to introduce MS Office to the students

Student may not find it easy to search relevant information from internet

Prior Guideline to be given to Students for searching various Key Words

The Head mistress may not approve this mode of teaching

Technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) covers the integration of the elements: technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge in teaching and aids in learning process

Timeline

5 Nutrition inPlants

& Animals

4. Nutrition 3. Enzymes

2.DiffusionOsmosis

Activetransport

1.Levels of Organization

AUG-SEPSenior-1

8.Respiration7.Transport in

Animals

6.TransoprtIn

Plants

OCT-NOVSenior-1

14. Locomotion

13. Drugs

12. Receptor organ;

Eye

11. co-ordination

&control

10. Homeostasis

9. Excretion

JAN-MARSenior 1

15. Genetics

14.ReprodutionIn

Plants &Animals

13.Microorganisms

&Biotechnology

AUG-NOVSenior-2

18. Revision17. Effect ofMan on his

Enviornment

16. Ecology

JAN-MARSenior-2

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