I expect you to set up your own biology blog.
You can use whichever platform you like but I recommend Weebly.
Send the links to your blogs to [email protected] and [email protected].
Universities expect to see an engagement with the subject beyond the syllabus. This takes the form of work experience, discussion of further reading during an interview and testimony from a teacher on a UCAS statement.
This blog is to be a journal documenting your journey of discovery in biology over the next two years. I will expect it to be updated at least once a week. I will expect you to read and to post comments on blogs that your peers have written. I will provide guidance for many of the written tasks and they will be linked to topics in the syllabus but, over and above this, the best students will comment on issues of biological interest from their own research, reading and studying.
If this is done well, it will be an outstanding thing to reference in a UCAS application. These blogs should be written with that in the back of your mind - you are writing for a university professor who might want you on their biology course.
Look at this as an (admittedly quite ambitious) model to follow:
http://societyofbiologyblog.org/
Your first post is to be on the history of vitalism and why the artificial synthesis of organic molecules - specifically urea - led to the rejection of this philosophy as a scientific model in biology. The title is "Vitalism". You may want to expand on the implications this had on 18th and 19th century biology, the ethics of using this theory in modern "alternative" medicine or the details of Wöhler synthesis. You may talk about Louis Pasteur - who was he and why did he believe in aspects of vitalism?
It does not matter what you write about so long as you are interested (or at least pretend to be) and DO NOT PLAGURISE. You can quote people or blogs or articles, but include links and references.
Good luck!
You can use whichever platform you like but I recommend Weebly.
Send the links to your blogs to [email protected] and [email protected].
Universities expect to see an engagement with the subject beyond the syllabus. This takes the form of work experience, discussion of further reading during an interview and testimony from a teacher on a UCAS statement.
This blog is to be a journal documenting your journey of discovery in biology over the next two years. I will expect it to be updated at least once a week. I will expect you to read and to post comments on blogs that your peers have written. I will provide guidance for many of the written tasks and they will be linked to topics in the syllabus but, over and above this, the best students will comment on issues of biological interest from their own research, reading and studying.
If this is done well, it will be an outstanding thing to reference in a UCAS application. These blogs should be written with that in the back of your mind - you are writing for a university professor who might want you on their biology course.
Look at this as an (admittedly quite ambitious) model to follow:
http://societyofbiologyblog.org/
Your first post is to be on the history of vitalism and why the artificial synthesis of organic molecules - specifically urea - led to the rejection of this philosophy as a scientific model in biology. The title is "Vitalism". You may want to expand on the implications this had on 18th and 19th century biology, the ethics of using this theory in modern "alternative" medicine or the details of Wöhler synthesis. You may talk about Louis Pasteur - who was he and why did he believe in aspects of vitalism?
It does not matter what you write about so long as you are interested (or at least pretend to be) and DO NOT PLAGURISE. You can quote people or blogs or articles, but include links and references.
Good luck!