Bio-06

CHAPTER 6: COORDINATION

1. Read Chapter 6 of the text book: Coordination

2. Read Biology4Kids’ The Nervous System

3. Go through the following presentation on Coordination:

4. Go through these sites/activities:

– BBC Bites on The Nervous System – click on the revision tab and then try the activity.

– The 5 separate steps involved in the automatic heat reflex response:

– The human nervous system

– How the nervous system works to coordinate a conscious response to a stimulus

– Synapses

– Reflex Action

5. The Eye

– Go through the following presentation:

– A journey through the human eye:

– Mr Exham dissects a pig’s eye:

– Playlist on the eye

– Cow’s eye dissection

– Practise labelling the eye here

– Test on the function of each structure in the eye here

– How the eye works

– Accommodation of the human eye

– The eye in bright and dim conditions

– Problem vision

6. EXTRA READING

– The Nervous System (where most of the animations are taken from)

– The Nervous System – 46 videos… choose which are relevant

– Khan Academy: The Neuron & Nervous System