Year 11 Practicals

Drawing/Measuring Skills
Working out scale etc.
How to plan an experiment
Drawing a graph
Classification
Features of all groups
Movement of particles
Osmosis and potato cells/ osmosis graph
Osmosis/ diffusion with visking tubing
Diffusion of Ammonia down a tube
Looking at a plasmolysed plant cell
Nutrition
Food tests
DCPIP
Burning Peanut
Enzymes
Effect of temperature
Effect of pH
Starch/Amylase
Catalase/Hydrogen Peroxide
Photosynthesis
Destarching a plant
Testing a leaf for starch
Is light needed for Photosynthesis ?
Variegated leaves
Is carbon dioxide needed for photosynthesis?
Measuring the rate of oxygen given off-------- Effect of light intensity on rate
Mineral deficiencies of plants
Transport in Plants
Potometer experiments
Cobalt Chloride paper on leaf
Microscope slide to look at stomata
Eves washing line
Methods to look at rates of transpiration
Circulatory system
Measuring pulse/heart rate and effects on it
Respiratory system
How a respirometer works
Testing for Carbon dioxide/breathing in and out ------- Bicarbonate indicator practical
Respiring seeds in a vacuum flask
Anaerobic respiration of yeast
Model lungs
Homeostasis
Rates of cooling different conditions
Tropisms
Geotropism experiments
Phototropism experiments
Cutting off the end of shoots/roots
Nervous System
Pupil reflex
Germination
Conditions for germination and growth curve --------- Testing Seeds for Starch
Genetics
Counting seeds for variation
Ecology

Sampling techniques