Educator/Teacher: Grade: 12
School: Alexander Road High School
Miss S. Jacobs
Time: 50 minutes
Week:
Date:13/03/2015
Subject: life sciences
Sex-linked chromosomes and inheritance
Topic
Lesson outcomes
Learners will be able to:

Name some of the sex- linked disorders

Identify the parent that contributes most to the sex-linked disorder

Work quietly in pairs

Draw punnet squares
Prior knowledge
Organelles – chromosomes
Integration with other subjects
Language – understanding the terminology and answering questions
Extended activities
Expanded opportunities
Context
Teacher reflection
Teacher, learning and assessment activities
Educator
Learner activities
activities
Resources/
Time
Assessment strategies
Give learners a
Work quietly.
worksheet to
Complete the
complete. Explain
worksheet
the questions to the individually or in
learners who do not pairs
Text book
50 minutes
understand the
questions
Educator/Teacher: Grade:
School: Alexander Road High School
Miss S. Jacobs
Time: 60 minutes
Subject: Life Sciences
Week: 8
Date:17 / 03/2015
Topic
Lesson outcomes
Learners will be able to:

Draw a labelled diagram of a root hair

Describe stomatal mechanism

Differentiate between meristemmetic and epidermal tissue
Prior knowledge
organelles
Integration with other subjects
Language- understanding terminology and being able to spell the words correctly
Extended activities
Expanded opportunities
Context
Teacher reflection
Teacher, learning and assessment activities
Educator
Learner activities
activities
Resources/
Time
Assessment strategies
Explain to the
Take notes. They
learners what
may ask questions
Power point presentation
20 minutes
meristemmetic and
epidermal tissues
are
Instruct learners to
draw a labelled
Draw diagram
20 minutes
diagram which they
will find in the text
book of a root hair
Explain stomatal
Do the summaries.
mechanism to the
Ask questions if
learners. Instruct
they do not
them to summarise
understand what is
it into their books
going on
text book
10 minutes
Educator/Teacher: Grade: 10
School: Alexander Road High School
Miss S. Jacobs
Time: 60 minutes
Subject: life sciences
Week: 9
Date: 25/03/2015
Topic
Lesson outcomes
Learners will be able to:

Distinguish between permanent and embryonic tissue

Explain the functions of epithelial tissue

Describe the locations of tissues in the human body

Differentiate between animal tissue and plant tissue
Prior knowledge
Stem cell research
Integration with other subjects
Language –reading and understanding certain terms and being able to interpret
information given in the text book
Extended activities
Expanded opportunities
Context
Teacher reflection
Teacher, learning and assessment activities
Educator
Learner activities
activities
Explain briefly
Resources/
Time
Assessment strategies
Take notes
Text book
10 minutes
what animal tissue
is and how it differs
from plant tissue
Explain what
Take notes. Ask
embryonic,
questions if they do
epithelial and
not understand
50 minutes
permanent tissues
certain things.
are and where in
Summarise the
the body it is found
work from the
and the functions
power point
Educator/Teacher: Grade:10
School: Alexander Road High School
Miss S. Jacobs
Time: 60 minutes
Subject: life sciences
Week: 9
Date: 27/03/2015
Nerve tissue
Topic
Lesson outcomes
Learners will be able to:

Explain the functions of nerve tissue

Differentiate between the 3 different types of neurons

Draw simplified diagrams of the different neurons

Explain how a message moves and a reaction is created
Prior knowledge
Cells – basic unit of life
Integration with other subjects
Language- understanding concepts and information provided on the different neurons
Extended activities
Expanded opportunities
Context
Teacher reflection
Teacher, learning and assessment activities
Educator
Learner activities
activities
Ask learners how
Resources/
Time
Assessment strategies
Learners respond
Oral feedback
5 minutes
Explain what nerve
Ask questions if
Text book
10 minutes
tissue is and a
they do not
they think they
react to certain
things
general function of
understand what
it
nerve tissue is
Go through each
Take notes.
Text book
type of neuron and
Learners may ask
Power point presentation
state its structure,
questions if the
function and
terms are not clear
location
or if they are
confused
45 minutes
Educator/Teacher: Grade:10
School: Alexander Road High School
Miss S. Jacobs
Time: 60 minutes
Subject: life sciences
Week: 9
Date: 27/03/2015
Topic
Lesson outcomes
Learners will be able to:

Draw the structure of skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle

Differentiate between the different muscle tissue types by looking at the
drawings
Prior knowledge
Integration with other subjects
Language – learners must be able to read the information before they can interpret and
understand the work
Extended activities
Expanded opportunities
Context
Teacher reflection
Teacher, learning and assessment activities
Educator
Learner activities
activities
Time
Assessment strategies
Instruct learners to
Learners do the
draw diagrams of
diagrams. They ask
skeletal, smooth
for help if they are
and cardiac muscle
stuck on certain
tissue. The teacher
diagrams and if
facilitates the
they do not know
learners by
Resources/
Text book
60 minutes
correcting them
where to fill in
where they are
labels
wrong and also
assisting them
when they do not
know where a
certain label needs
to be filled in