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Relevance
AS/A Biology
Time: 60 minutes
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Teacher guidance
The lesson aims to help students develop their understanding of the role of theoretical
models in science. In particular that:
Activities
This lesson consists of three activities.
Activity B1
Students evaluate two competing models in the light of contemporary evidence and
identify the parts of the models that are not evident from the data.
Activity B3
Students re-evaluate the two models and a third, more recent, model in the light of
further evidence. It should now be clear how the increased amount of evidence
supports a single model.
The Nuffield Foundation 2003