Welcome back – as you know we now have a lesson on Monday afternoon in room 28 the computer room 🙂

Our first lesson back was basically a paper swapping exercise. You handed me piles of prep and also work that what not handed in before we broke up for 1/2 term, and I handed you various activities to get your brain going again.

• You had to label a brain and a neuron from memory
• You did a ‘find the right word activity’ for brain lateralisation
• You completed a massive Sperry multiple choice test

Liv showed us that the poster on brain scanning really did reveal hidden videos – she was the only person who managed to get it to work – well done LIV  🙂

Mini prep – you have a recap activity to do on brain plasticity for tomorrow 

Lesson 2/3

We started with a RM examination question in which you had to analyse some data and write a null hypothesis.

We consolidated our understanding of ways of investigating the brain >>>> Scanning 2018

Please start a sleep diary from tonight onward – make a note of how many hours sleep you get each night. We will need this data next Wednesday 🙂  sleep diary correlation

You took the quiz >>> owls quiz

One to ones are focusing on Research Methods and ensuring you are confident with the year 1 material

Lesson 4  – You started with a Case Study gap fill, followed by a research methods glossary test and a bio psych glossary test.

Lesson 5  –  We started to consider the nature of descriptive and inferential statistical tests. We recapped levels of measurement, and measures of central tendency. We also learned about why we conduct inferential statistical tests. We then conducted a sign test. See todays PPT >>> Statistics

P<0.05 is known as a STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE. It means “The probability of the results being due to chance is less than 5%”  If you see this written in a journal article it means the results were significant and the null hypothesis has been rejected.

Prep:

Read the GHG digi text book from pages 190-197 in order to check your understanding of basic arithmetic and associated terminology.

learn more about standard deviation and measures of central tendency  >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/standard/maths_ii/statistics/

Here is a fascinating magazine to read about your brain – it’s an easy fun read Brain magasine

Don’t forget to watch the Horizon programme about sleep currently available on the BBC IPlayer 

You have a RM work sheet to complete for MONDAY  – it requires that you conduct a sign test 🙂

We will be looking at Biological rhythms next 

Before we get into split brain research you would be well advised to work through this power point  – remember to use full screen and slideshow function to benefit from the power point’s features >>>>>  sperry-research-for-blog

It is essential that you are pre-reading your digital text book, and coming to lessons with your new schema already starting to establish.  The lessons are designed to help you make sense of this new material, and to answer the questions that arise as a consequence of learning new concepts relating to this and other topics.

Lesson 1 

I handed out your 1/2 term prep – sorry ! >>>Half term prep

Once we finally got the computer and screen working we started to consider the split brain research of Sperry. >>>  Sperry lesson 1 

You have a lateralisation of the brain stapled worksheet to read and some questions to answer – ideally this should be done by tomorrow – if it isn’t you will be forgiven. I will need to see it after 1/2 term though- so you had better add it to the 1/2 term homework list.

Today you told me there was a school VLE – my job is to learn how to use it 🙂

Lesson 2  

We continued learning about Sperry’s experiment >> Sperry lesson 2 and you completed a grid Sperry grid to consolidate your understanding, and then you did a stepping stone activity.

More info on Sperry >>> Sperry detailed info

For another interactive brain see below 🙂

http://www.brainfacts.org/3D-Brain#focus=Brain-basal_ganglia-putamen

 

October Half term ….yaaaaay…….thank you lovely year 13 for making me feel welcome and for working so hard since September. You have been amazing 🙂

Here is some information to give you a head start on tomorrow’s lesson

brain abnormalities

Additional information Brain Structure

Do ensure you have pre-read the section in the PHG digital text book on Brain localisation p38-39    There are lots of links to click 

We will also be looking at Plasticity and functional recovery  p40-41

Your consolidation reading should have included p 34-35 and p 36-37

Tuesday Lessons 

The lesson started with a repeat of the bio questions which were in the baseline test, – once I had a quick look at your answers I saw that most of you were making the same mistakes, and I was still not seeing evidence of AO1 knowledge – even though we had covered these topics last week!  This tells me that the consolidation work is not happening – once something makes sense you need to learn it.

The baseline test answers can be found in your shared area. I will test you again next Tuesday !

You were given the PHG Bio Psych pack  and we completed page 1 – ‘Are you sympathetic’.

Then after we played some games,  we further developed our knowledge of specific areas of the brain >>>3 Identifying brain areas

The tasks you were asked to complete can be found on the last slide of the power point >>> 3 Identifying brain areas

Wednesday Lesson 

Today we learnt about neural plasticity and functional recovery after trauma >>>> 1 neuroplasticity and recovery from trauma

Maguire taxi driver study was evidence for plasticity 

Here is some additional material you may find useful  >> A3 info sheet neuroplasticity and recovery from trauma

Extension >>> Valk et al (2017) Structural plasticity

Prep:     All prep work is due next Tuesday. 

1. You have two essays to read both with examiners comments. Hi-light AO1 in one colour and AO3 in another. I will ask to see this on Tuesday.
2. You have questions to answer from PHG revision guide – see power point above.
3. You have additional questions to answer on your ‘localisation of the brain worksheet’
4. Fill in your brain function revision cards –I will ask to see these on Tuesday.
5. Complete the Phineas Gage  (exercise 2.5), this is page 2 in your PHG Bio Psych pack. Remember in order to access the hyperlink you will need to look at the e-version of the pack in your shared area. You will find it in the PHG materials folder, or the Bio folder.
6. Additionally – you should be checking your understanding by trying the ‘Apply it’ questions from the Bio psych pages covered thus far. Always check the model answers in the digital text book.
7. It is always necessary to read ahead – think about the next topic – try to be ready for it. If you read ahead you will make more sense of the lesson 🙂
8. Over the weekend start thinking about how you would like to turn your weaker Research Methods areas into strengths.                 What kind of remedial work would you like to do over the 1/2 term to make this happen? I can give you exercises to do, information to read, past questions to practice. I can provide power points ? Direct you to YouTube clips? You could work through a work pack, you could make your own notes/revision cards – the choice is yours. 

             IF YOU DON’T TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LEARNING WHO WILL?

 

Lesson 1 – We started the lesson by recapping the features of science, then you completed an examination question under timed conditions.

Science uses the empirical method, it is OBJECTIVE,  theories are testable and therefore FALSIFIABLE and research should be REPLICABLE.

You were given the double bubble sheet – this is to help you plan comparison essays. It is always better to plan in advance as it makes writing the essay so much easier. The Venn diagram helps you work out the similarities and and the differences.

Lesson 2  – We started to recap the biological approach from 6.1. We revisited the CNS and PNS, you drew neurons and synapses, we acted out neurotransmission and you made brain caps to learn about the lobes of the brain. The power point I used, together with the films and lesson materials can be found in the bio folder in your shared area.

Take the time to work through the materials again if you are unsure of anything we covered.

Ensure you have also revised the endocrine system and the flight, fight, flee or freeze response – there was no time to cover this again in class.

    You need to learn the key terms – there will be a glossary test after 1/2 term.

Lesson 3  – We developed our understanding of the localisation and Lateralisation of the brain. You made an edible brain and we sang a song to help us learn about some of the key areas of the brain.

Prep: Complete the worksheet used to construct the edible brain. I will take it in next Tuesday.

Read ahead about the 6.2 Bio Approach  – brain areas, functions and split brain research.

Lesson 4 and 5 – No lesson due to Black wood farm