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KS4 Biology

Getting Started

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What is Boardworks KS4 Biology?

Boardworks KS4 Biology is an educational package designed for whole-class teaching on interactive whiteboards and projectors.

This PowerPoint presentation is a guide for teacher getting started with the product, and covers common questions and technical advice.

If you haven’t used a Boardworks product before, it is recommended that you start here.

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Boardworks KS4 Biology is made up of five units, each containing a number of PowerPoint presentations as listed below.

What is in the product?

Cell ActivityCell Division and Fertilization; Movement In and Out of Cells

Humans as OrganismsDigestion; What is Blood?; Blood Vessels; The Heart and Circulatory System; The Breathing System; Respiration; What is Energy Used For?; Hormones; Microbes; Defence Against Disease

Green Plants as OrganismsPlant Nutrition; Plant Responses

Variation, Inheritance and EvolutionVariation; Chromosomes, Genes and DNA; Inheritance; Inherited Diseases

Living Things in their EnvironmentAdaptation; Competition

For the full contents please view the contents document, which lists the learning objectives and details the Flash activities in each presentation.

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To begin using the product, just open the folder that contains the presentation you wish to use and double-click on that file to open it.

Each presentation will open in Slide Sorter view.

To view the presentation as a slide show, select the “View” menu and click on “Slide Show”, or click on the slide show icon ( ) at the bottom left-hand corner of your screen.

How do I begin using the product?

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Are there any teacher’s notes?

This product does not contain hard-copy teacher’s notes.

Where a slide contains notes that are intended for the teacher, an icon is shown in the top right-hand corner, as above. These notes typically include guidance on completing an activity or extra information.

You can view the notes during a slide show by right-clicking and choosing Speaker Notes.

When not in Slide Show view, select the “View” menu and click on “Normal”. You will see the notes relevant to that particular slide at the bottom of the screen.

Another way to select to Normal View is to click on the icon at the bottom-left of your screen, as indicated below.

Normal View

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Any slide which contains Flash has the Flash icon in the top right-hand corner, as above. The Flash activities are not editable, although they can be copied and pasted into other presentations, like other objects in PowerPoint. All Flash activities are designed to be easy-to-use and self explanatory. In most activities the arrow icon ( ) is the reset button, and the question mark ( ) provides extra help should it be required.

Depending on the level of PowerPoint security, you may receive a message warning you that macros are present in the product. These macros enable the Flash to run and it is safe to enable them when using our products.

This product contains many interactive exercises designed in Flash, a multimedia technology. To view the Flash-based content, you will need to have the most recent version of Macromedia Flash player installed. To ensure that you have the correct version, double-click on the file ‘Install Flash Player 7 AX.exe’, included on the Boardworks CD-ROM, and follow the instructions.

What about the Flash interactivity?

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How do I navigate through the presentations?

The majority of presentations are written in a linear manner for easy navigation.

Just like any other PowerPoint presentation, click on any empty area of the screen to reveal the next object on that slide or to move forward to the next slide.

You can click on the back arrow at the bottom-left of each screen to move back through the slides. Click on the forward arrow at the bottom-right of the screen to advance through the slides.

You can see how many slides there are in the presentation by checking the slide number displayed in the bottom left-hand corner.

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You can print all the slides in a presentation by simply clicking on the printer icon.

You can print an individual slide by navigating to that slide, selecting the “File” menu and clicking “Print”; in the Print window, choose the “Current slide” option and then click “OK”.

If you want to print the notes that accompany a slide, in the Print window change the “Print what” option to “Notes Page”.

Can I print from the presentations?

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Can I edit the presentations?

One of the major advantages of Boardworks KS4 Biology is that it has been created in PowerPoint which means it is editable. You are free to use the standard PowerPoint functionality to edit the presentations, including reordering, adding or deleting slides, adding or removing text, or inserting your own activities or images. The only items that aren’t editable are the Flash activities, and these can still be copied and pasted between slides and presentations.

Many schools save the original version of the product on the network, with teachers saving their own versions locally.

You can use any media in your own presentations for educational use within the school that has bought the product, with the exception of images that have a copyright line or other acknowledgement next to them; we cannot grant copyright for these items as we have licensed from another party and they must not be copied or edited in any way. If you move to another school, you must remove any Boardworks media from your own presentations. The Copyright Licence supplied on the CD-ROM contains fuller details and takes precedence over this document.

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Can I give you feedback?

At Boardworks we are constantly striving to improve our products and all feedback is very gratefully received. If you wish to comment on any of the content in the product please do get in touch:

The Science Editor

Boardworks Ltd

Oxford Centre for Innovation

Mill Street

Oxford

OX2 0JX

tel: 08703 50 55 60

fax: 08703 50 55 65

e: editors@theboardworks.co.uk

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Special thanks to the following organisations:

Science Photo Library

The Cystic Fibrosis trust

Thanks