Re: [Fhsst-bio] How much detail?

[Mark Horner]

Hi Andrew

Sorry about the delay took the long weekend here off and our car broke 
down on the way back - nothing
serious but just takes time.

Now, where to pitch it and how much detail to go for. Basic, but vague, 
rule of thumb is that the students know nothing about your stuff when 
they start it and they are second language english speakers in the 10th 
grade, your job is to cover everything in the syllabus and everything 
they need if they were going to university.

The full official syllabus document is at (Life Sciences):

http://education.pwv.gov.za/mainDocument.asp?src=docu&xsrc=legi&ysrc=Call%20For%20Comments

I read most of it a couple of times. I don't think it answers your 
question specifically. It provides some general statements about scope 
but without giving the specific examples which cover that scope, 
although its clear that multiple examples could do equally well. In the 
case of Physics I have no problems interpretting it but here I am lost. 
It will probably make much more sense to you.

I will try to get an answer from a Biology teacher in SA about the 
standard examples that are used but I think you can certainly start 
assuming they know nothing and take the example which most completely 
covers the general concepts for all the cases. From there you can 
reference it as your baseline for the other cases showing how they are 
different.

I'll have a better answer for you asap!

Cheers,

Mark





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> Hi there...can someone help? I am trying to do Section 3 Chapter1. How
> much detail must I go into? For instance, one of the Biomes is
> the Aquatic Biome. But this can be broken down into freshwater
> and saltwater. The freshwater can be broken down into Lotic (running water) and
> Lentic (Still water)systems, and the Lentic systems can further be subdivided
> into zones according to the depth of the water. Then one can go into details
> about the productivity of each etc etc. I don't even want to think about the
> salt water division! Is there a guide about how much detail we must include?
> Also, does this depend on the grade of learners the text book is aimed at?
>
> regards
> Andrew
>
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