Life Sciences Term 1

2: Meiosis

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  Attend this online synchronous meeting on Date | Time. Your attendance is compulsory.

• Learning outcomes

  By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Teach the terms associated with meiosis
    
  • Indicate where meiosis take place in animals and plants
    
  • Discuss and interpret the process of meiosis
    
  • Explain the process of non-disjunction and interpret it from karyographs and other diagrams
    
  • Explain Down syndrome.
    

  
  

• Study materials

• Module 2 materials

• Review the study materials below for 'Meiosis'.

• MGSLG. (2020). Life Sciences T1 Module 2 File 2MB
• MGSLG. (2020). PPT: Meiosis File 7.2MB
• MGSLG. (2020). Fact sheet: Meiosis File 799KB
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  Module 2 structure

  Unit 1: What is meiosis and where does it take place?

  • Review the terminology relating to meiosis by clicking on the link below (or review it in your module guide)
  • Print page 5 (the crossword) of your module guide. Complete this crossword puzzle, take a photo of your attempt and save it as: Full name_Module 2 (you will upload this with your Word document at the end of this module)
  • Using a Word document, complete activity 2.2 on pages 13 - 17. Keep this Word document for all the other activities to be completed in this module.

• MGSLG. (2020). Terms and definitions Page
• MGSLG. (2020). Module 2 Unit 1 Page
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  Unit 2: What is non-disjunction and what are the consequences of this?

  • Review this unit's material by accessing the link below
  • Using the SAME Word document, complete activity 2.3 on page 20
  • Submit your document using the assignment submission tool below.

• MGSLG. (2020). Module 2 Unit 2 Page
• Assignment submission tool: Module 2
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  Subject methodology

  Having completed the activities in this module, which of those would you use as a teaching aid in your classroom? Do they need to be modified? Can you think of better, more effective activities?
  

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  Enrichment resources

  The following additional resources have been sourced for this topic. We encourage you to search for your own enrichment resources that can be used as an aid to your teaching on this topic.

• Amoeba Sisters. (2017). Meiosis (Video - standard YouTube licence) Page
• Dummies. (nd). Plant reproduction (Full copyright) URL
• Biology Animation Videos. (2016). Chromosome nondisjunction animation (Standard YouTube licence) Page
• Khan Academy. (2018). What is Down Syndrome? Page
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  Technology support

  Review the two online interactive resources below. Maybe you can search for others as well to add to your resource collection?

• AmpedUpLearning. (nd). Meoisis / Mitosis Smartboard game (CC BY-SA-NC) URL
• Exploratorium. (nd). Cell biology teaching box (CC BY-NC-SA) URL
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  Module summary

  This topic is assessed in both Life Sciences papers and therefore it is important to note the following sub topics:
  

  • The differences between mitosis and meiosis are important
    
  • The difference between unreplicated and replicated chromosomes
    
  • The process of meiosis (phase 1 and 2) and the differences
    
  • Non-disjunction and its consequences
    
  • Diagrams play a very important role in this topic.