Life Sciences Term 3

Introduction

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  This first online synchronous meeting will take place on Date | Time. Attendance is compulsory.

  
  

• Cognitive demand levels in Life Sciences

  Let's have a quick re-cap on Bloom's taxonomy for thinking and its relevance to Life Sciences. Remember that in Life Sciences, the last three levels are combined so that FOUR levels of cognitive demand are used:

  
  

  
  

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  Course overview (32 hours)

  The following modules will be covered in this course:

  1. Evolution by natural selection
  2. Human evolution
  3. Responding to the environment: Plants.

• Course materials

• DBE & MGSLG. (2020). Life Sciences T3 course manual File 4.9MB
• DBE. (2014). Life Sciences Mind the Gap CAPS File 8.9MB
• DBE. (2017). Life Sciences GR 12 Exam Guide File
• DBE. (2018). Diagnostic report File 4.1MB
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  Course structure 

  • The Life Sciences T3 online course is divided into the three modules detailed above
  • The entire Life Sciences T3 course manual is downloadable under the section titled 'Course Materials'
  • This manual is also divided into the three 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.