Vocabulary is such a big part of biology, it's almost like having to learn another language sometimes!
Often in exam answers certain key-words have to be included, or students will have to understand a key word in a question to be able to answer!
Our Tamaki College Specialist Classroom Teacher suggested taking a tactile approach to learning vocabulary, so I decided to get Year 12 biology to make their own vocabulary keychains.
First, students picked which vocabulary they would like to include on their keychain from these sheets:
Photosynthesis organelle structure - chloroplasts
Photosynthesis
Factors limiting photosynthesis
DNA replication
When they came back students hole punched and attached each keyword and it's definition to a keychain.
Then we had 10 minutes SSR becoming familiar with their keychain, flipping back and forward between words and definitons.
Students can take them away and look at them over the weekend, or attach them to their keys and keep them until the real exams at the end of the year!
These are a more tactile version of the online vocab sets found in our 12BIO quizlet class :)
Photosynthesis
Factors limiting photosynthesis
DNA replication
Then they cut them out, folded them, and whipped off down to the office to laminate them with Helen.
When they came back students hole punched and attached each keyword and it's definition to a keychain.
Students can take them away and look at them over the weekend, or attach them to their keys and keep them until the real exams at the end of the year!
These are a more tactile version of the online vocab sets found in our 12BIO quizlet class :)
This is a great idea. I would love to hear a follow up later in the year about how you felt this worked for them.
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