“Could you explain this to someone else ? ” Neurones, Action potentials, synapses and resting potentials - Revision and understanding through self explanation

Research shows the effectiveness of self explanation ie could you explain this to someone else

Try using these cards with a partner to revise nerves, action potentials, resting potentials and synapses

Instructions

• Print onto card. Cut out, place face down in a pack.

• Pick up a card

• Explain the concept with a whiteboard or paper.

• Use all of the words on each card

Then look up the concept in a textbook and correct your mistakes.

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There is a downloadable pdf here

Neurones and Action Potentials - A level Biology Questions - by topic - with the markschemes

Going through past papers by topic often gives a useful insight into the thoughts of the examiners and how they see a topic and the emphasis they put on different parts of a specification. I have included the comments from the examiners reports,

Neurones and Action Potentials give an opportunity for examiners to get you to explain a graph (in terms of the flow of Sodium and Potassium ions through voltage gated channel) and to link that explaination to first year concepts of facilitated diffusion and active transport.

Here is a link to some questions with the markschemes

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