Complete “Ready to go” lesson with no adapting necessary!
New for AAQ Pearson Medical Science BTEC from Sept 2025 Specification
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Layout of the lesson
•Exposition on what antmicrobial agents, how they inhibit bacteria (bacteriostatic and bactericidal) are and why they it is important to understand their efficacy
•What is a zone of inhibition, how can it be used to identify antimicrobial susceptibility, confluent growth and how to measure regular and irregular zones of inhibition
•Students are given a rough method and use the questions to write a reproducible method for their coursework as well as their risk assessment. Students will have used previous skills required in this practical in Task 3/C
•After incubation, students will collect quantitative data calculating zone of inhibition and qualitative written descriptions of their observations
•Revisit of standard deviation including how to calculate standard deviation.
•Students are guided on how to present their data as a graph including how to use error bars to represent standard deviation
•Recap from unit 2E on reliability vs validity including how this links to results analysis and evaluation of this investigation
•Students will compare the quantitative results of the efficacy of the different antimicrobial agents and explain how each antimicrobial agent works
•Content delivered on the key limitations in the success of this investigation from the Pearson AAQ specification
•Guided evaluation on the practical elements of this lesson on their own techniques, advatantages and disadvantages of each method, strength of data collected and potential ideas for future research
• Guide on how to complete background and conclusion to finish the report
• Summary on the order and content expected in the final report from students

NO PRINTING REQUIREMENTS
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This lesson follows my usual style and contains:
•Recall starter to build retention of previously learned content
•Clear levelled learning objectives and outcomes
•Clear and modern layout utilising GIFS and Youtube
• Variety of tasks and plenaries with self assessment to assess progress
• ANSWERS INCLUDED!

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