Time Learning activity with opportunity Assessment Learning Outcome Resources Learning objective taken to develop skills opportunities 0.2 Explain what binary Learning activities: Binary fission in fission is and the show an agar plate with prokaryotic cells. organisms which bacterial colonies. Ask Rich question: carry out binary students to suggest why these fission. Binary fission can are visible given that bacteria Describe the happen every 20 are microscopic process of binary minutes for some teacher led description of the fission. species, under ideal process of binary fission in conditions. Suggest prokaryotes one example where ask students to evaluate how this trait would be it differs from the process in useful to humans. eukaryotic cells students could calculate the exponential growth of bacteria from one cell, each hour for 8 hours, under ideal conditions exam questions from Exampro (especially relating to data). Skills developed by learning activities: MS 0.5 estimate the – exponential growth of bacteria after 8 hours with the assumption of binary fission
Learning objective Time taken Learning Outcome Learning activity with opportunity to develop skills Assessment opportunities Resources Binary fission in prokaryotic cells. 0.2 Explain what binary fission is and the organisms which carry out binary fission. Describe the process of binary fission. Learning activities: show an agar plate with bacterial colonies. Ask students to suggest why these are visible given that bacteria are microscopic teacher led description of the process of binary fission in prokaryotes ask students to evaluate how it differs from the process in eukaryotic cells students could calculate the exponential growth of bacteria from one cell, each hour for 8 hours, under ideal conditions exam questions from Exampro (especially relating to data). Skills developed by learning activities: MS 0.5 – estimate the exponential growth of bacteria after 8 hours with the assumption of binary fission Rich question: Binary fission can happen every 20 minutes for some species, under ideal conditions. Suggest one example where this trait would be useful to humans.
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