1. Checkpoint - How Are You Doing?
Biology 1A

2. Concepts To Learn Responding to Change:
Evaluate the benefits of using hormones to control fertility.
Evaluate the claims made by sports drinks.
Describe how a impulse passes along nerves from receptors to the brain.
Describe the processes involved in a reflex arc.

3. Concepts To Learn Homeostasis
Explain why the right body temperature is important for enzymes to work.
Describe ways in which water and ions are lost from the body.
Explain why blood sugar levels can change throughout the day.
Describe the function of hormones in homeostasis, e.g. reproductive hormones.

4. Concepts To Learn Keeping Healthy Design a healthy and balanced diet.
Identify some of the effects of an unbalanced diet.
Identify the factors that affect your body’s metabolic rate.
Describe some of the diseases associated with obesity.
Explain how cholesterol and salt levels are related to our health.

5. Concepts To Learn Using and Abusing Drugs
Evaluate the effect of statins on cardio-vascular disease
Evaluate the claims made about the effects of cannabis
Describe how new medical drugs are devised and tested, and the effects of untested drugs (e.g. Thalidomide).
Identify the effects of Nicotine and Alcohol on health.
Explain what is meant by addiction.

6. Concepts To Learn Infectious Diseases
Describe how the body defends itself against infection from pathogens.
Explain how a vaccination can make you immune to a disease.
Describe how anti-biotics help to cure infections caused by bacteria, but not viruses.
Explain how MRSA has spread and how it can be controlled.

7. Skills To Practice To Practice
Completing questions in order of difficulty
Reading and understanding diagrams
Investigation Skills
Variables, Fair Testing, Reliability and Accuracy
Reading and using a graph
Using calculations
Spotting the difference between an opinion and a piece of evidence
Thinking about why there are some questions Science cannot answer!