General
Introduction
Welcome
Use the link below to introduce yourself to the online facilitator and to your peers. This online meeting will take place at Date | Time. Note: Your attendance is compulsory.
Cognitive demand levels in Life SciencesTo effectively teach Life Sciences to your learners, it is highly advisable that you adopt a teaching pedagogy . Bloom's taxonomy, illustrated below, provides a guideline:
In Life Sciences, the last three levels are combined so that FOUR levels of cognitive demand are used.
Review the table below which provides further insight into the four levels.
Course overview (32 hours)The following modules will be covered in this online workshop:
- DNA and protein synthesis
- Meiosis
- Reproductive strategies in vertebrates
- Reproduction in humans.
Course materials
The resources used for this online course are found below.
Course structure- Life Sciences T1 online course is divided into the four modules detailed above
- The entire Life Sciences T1 course manual is downloadable under the section titled 'Course Materials'
- This manual is also divided into the four modules and listed in the respective module's 'Study materials' section
- Each module has numerous activities which we require all participants to complete
- Participants will be referred to the respective module's course manual to get the details of the activities
- Activities are required to be completed in a Word document
- Please number the activities and answers exactly as detailed in the course manual
- The same Word document must be used for ALL the activities in the relevant module i.e. one Word document per module
- The Word document must be saved in the following format: Full name_Module 1, Full name_Module 2, Full name_Module 3 etc...
- At the end of each module participants will be requested to submit their Word document using the assignment submission tool.