Chapter 1: Cell Biology
Lesson 8: Cancer Lesson overview AQA Specification reference AQA 4.2.2.7
Learning objectives • Describe cancer as a condition resulting from changes in cells that lead to their uncontrolled growth, division and spread. • Understand some of the risk factors that trigger cells to become cancerous.
Learning outcomes • Describe what cancer is and factors that cause it to occur. [O1] • Explain why cancer causes damage and death. [O2] • Use and analyse data to evaluate different types of cancer. [O3]
Skills development • WS 1.3 Appreciate the power and limitations of science and consider any ethical issues which may arise. • WS 3.5 Interpret observations and other data (presented in verbal, diagrammatic, graphical, symbolic or numerical form), including identifying patterns and trends, making inferences and drawing conclusions. • WS 3.6 Present reasoned explanations including relating data to hypotheses. Resources needed Worksheets 1.8.1, 1.8.2 and 1.8.3 Digital resources Presentation 1.8 Key vocabulary benign tumour, carcinogen, malignant tumour, mutation, secondary tumour
Teaching and learning Engage • Being aware of the sensitivities around this topic, ask students to work in pairs to discuss what they already know about cancer and if anyone close to them has had it. [O1] • Show students the PowerPoint slide of tumorous tissues. Discuss these slides with students. Ask students what they can deduce about cancer from these images. [O1]
Challenge and develop • Students should look at all the stages of cancer in the worksheet. Students should answer the differentiated questions in the worksheet about this flow diagram. Low demand, answer questions 1–3 on Worksheet 1.8.1; standard demand answer questions 1–3 on Worksheet 1.8.2 and high demand answer questions 1–3 on Worksheet 1.8.3. [O1, O2] • Discuss with students the newspaper article on Angelina Jolie and breast cancer. Ask students why it was she might have taken this decision, even though she did not have breast cancer. [O1, O2] Go to www.dailymail.co.uk and enter the search terms ‘Angelina Jolie’ and ‘double mastectomy’. • Students should analyse and evaluate the data in the worksheet and answer the questions relating to this. [O3] • Discuss with students the PowerPoint slides and/or some short videos relating to different types of cancers and causes of cancer.
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