LIFE SCIENCES ROAD SHOW

2024

Grade 10 and 11
Meeting will start at 14:30
Gr 10 Pass % per district 2023
Grade 11 Pass % per district 2023
Notional time

4 hours per week- its not

negotiable
ACTIVITIES

Policy At least 3
says per week
 Google drive link
• Gauteng google drive link
Grade 10 Google drive
Grade 11 Google drive
 Strategies to sustain and improve the results
1. Baseline assessment – results submitted to SESs
2. Topic tests at the end of each topic – Results to be submitted to
SESs
3. Provide terminology-based activities per topic - monitored by SESs
4. Diagrams or mind maps.
5. Case studies/reading with understanding
6. An investigative question must be included in EVERY formal test
and exam paper – moderation by DH.
7. Common SBA practicals
8. Intervention classes
Gauteng
Strategies –
one pager
 TV Lessons- grade 11 lessons

You tube Life Sciences playlist

Exam guidelines
ATPs
ATP
ATP
ATP
 Content Mapping
GRADE 12 DNA code of Life Nervous system
Meiosis
TOPICS
RNA and protein

synthesis
Grade 11 Micro-organisms – Biodiversity of plants – the Biodiversity in animals –
Structure of Virus and terms haploid and diploid
Topics linking to Cephalisation, Phylum
Grade 12 bacteria Chordata

Grade 10 Cell - unit of life Cell - unit of life Cell - unit of life

Topics linking to Chemistry of life

Cell division (mitosis) Plant and animal
Grade 12
tissues
 Content Mapping
Darwinism and
Grade Genetics and inheritance
Natural Selection
12 (Foundation only done in Grade 12)
Human evolution
Biodiversity plants and animals–Phylogenetic trees Micro-organisms-Genetic engineering-insulin
Grade plasmid
Animal nutrition-dentition
11 (Very small section)
Biodiversity classification of microorganisms
(links with mutations in present day
(very small section)

Grade •Biodiversity and classification

10 • History of life on Earth-Fossils, transitional

fossils
Support systems in animals-Skull, skeleton
 Content Mapping
Grade Reproduction in vertebrates Endocrine system Plant Hormones
Human reproduction
12 Homeostasis
(Foundation only done in grade
12)
(Grade 9)

Grade Biodiversity of animals and plants- Animal nutrition

Plants- Asexual and Sexual
11 reproduction
Glucose balance regulation

Gas exchange
Respiration
CO balance regulation
2

• Excretion
(Osmo regulation, Salt balance
regulation)
Respiration
Chemistry of life-nutrients Support and transport systems
Grade Cell division (mitosis) in plants-Apical meristem
10 Cell - unit of life
Continuous assessment/feedback /LRP

Baseline test – when starting a new topic, assess what prior

knowledge learners have. For example: grade 10 cells – what
do they remember from previous grades etc.

Topic tests – this shows you what the learners know. Did they
learn anything?

Please forward the stats to your SES

 Training:

16 April – Exam paper setting

Grade 10 & 11
7 May – Scientific investigations

Other training might be added

throughout the year
 Grade 10 & 11

This is the basics that

learners must do
RELABs
Provide them with extra
questions and activities

Use resources from our

google drive
 Calculations

Learners are expected to round off their answers to two decimal points unless stated otherwise
Scientific investigations
• A greater emphasis on practical work and practical tasks of good
quality in Grades 10 and 11 will assist in preparing learners more
adequately for questions based on scientific investigations.

• Learners must be challenged to design their own investigations by

being given an 'observation', 'hypothesis' or 'aim’.

• Use the practical worksheets provided on Google

drive

• Training on practical investigation question will be done online 7 May

2024
 Practical worksheets – how to use it
WORKSHEET 3 (a)
Aim: To demonstrate that oxygen is used Ask questions like:
during respiration
Apparatus: What are the variables?
•Two vials Oxygen and respiration
•2 stoppers Always look at the AIM not the results, the results shows how the dependent
•2 gauze sacs with lining is measured. Never refer to independent as the “effect of something” this
•Germinating seeds changes the meaning.
•Boiled seeds
•Methylene blue solution Which is independent and dependent?
•Pipette Independent = respiration(one we change)
•Method: Dependent= oxygen (one we measure)

Usually, the independent is written first and dependent second in the aim.
So, this aim will be better written as:
To demonstrate that respiration requires oxygen

What is the purpose of the control?

A 'control' is a group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment of the
independent variable tested.

To see if oxygen used depleted because of respiration and not another

variable/factor. Comparing the results of the experiment where respiration took
place to the control where no respiration took place.
 Practical worksheet – how to use
Observations:
Vial State of Colour of Colour of Oxygen:
seeds: methylene blue methylene blue present/absent
living/dead solution at the solution at the
beginning of the end of the
experiment experiment

Discussion: Discuss what the observations mean

Conclusion: Refer to the two variables. Give the relationship between the two variables.
Circular S33
PoA
 Common SBAs
• Standardized SBA practical tasks and assignments – Must be done on the date indicated on PoA.
Grade 10 11 12
Term 1 Practical Practical Practical
Topic Environmental studies Microorganisms– Fungi DNA extraction

Date 12 February 2024 - 15 Part 1: 5 February 2024 –9 31 January 2024

March 2024 February 2024

Part 2: 21 February 2024

Term 2 Assignment Assignment Practical

Topic History of Life Photosynthesis Genetics
Date 24 April 2024 30 April 2024 8 May 2024

Term 3 Practical Practical Assignment Endocrine system,

Topic Mitosis and Plant tissues Nutrition and gaseous exchange Homeostasis & plant responses

31 July 2024 14 August 2024 24 July 2024

Date