Framework Activities
Biology Frameworks for Activities provide a list of investigations for a number of different areas of the Junior Biology syllabus such as Diet, Food and Exercise. Each experiment is accompanied by a PDF Document which outlines the learning outcomes of the investigation.
- Framework B7: Investigating Food OB1 – OB5
Suitable for first years of a mixed ability, assumes a prior knowledge of Energy, Diet & healthy eating. This is an excellent area to show that doing science has real life connections. We can gather evidence to create a good way of living for ourselves. Allow students to control something based on their own research and findings.
- Framework B6: Investigating Diet and the Food Pyramid OB1, OB2
Suitable for first year students with a prior knowledge of day to day food habits
- Framework B5: Investigating Plant Tropisms OB50
Suitable for second year students with a prior knowledge of OB39; be able to classify living organisms as plants or animals, & OB45; identify the main parts of a typical flowering plant and their functions: the root, stem, leaf and flower.
- Framework B4: Investigating the conditions necessary for germinationOB57, OB58
Suitable for first years of mixed ability. Students will have studied plant structure, pollination and fertilisation.
- Framework B3: Investigating a habitat OB59, OB60
Suitable for second year students. Students will have used the sensors to record room temperature, ph concentration, humidity of the air and light intensity. Students will be able to read data and present the data in graph form.
- Framework B2: Investigating the effects of exercise OB16
Suitable for first year students. Prior to this activity students should be aware of the following facts; the heart pumps blood carrying oxygen and digested food to all parts of the body, and food is a chemical energy needed for all the body’s activities.
- Framework B1: Investigating the conversion of chemical energy in food, to heat energy OB5
Suitable for first year students. Prior to this activity students should have prior knowledge of; measurement of temperature, mass, volume and units of same, the difference between heat and temperature, and Energy.
