GTAC resources of the month – September

Each month we will be featuring a number of GTAC VCE Biology resources that are freely available for teachers and students. These resources are great to use as learning and/or revision tasks.

VCE Biology Unit 2

Desktop ecology and "Biomaths"

An online course in which students collect and use data on four animal species along a model seashore and progress through a series of tasks to present and analyse the data. Click here to view this resource.

Introduction to ethics

A student online course that introduces them to some approaches and basic concepts involved in ethical analysis of a bioethical issue. Students can access this resource by clicking Students > Online courses on the GTAC homepage. Click here to view this resource.

VCE Biology Unit 4

The AGTC of molecular classification

Activities in which students work collaboratively to formulate a hypothesis on the relatedness of 4 species then test this using DNA sequence data. They then investigate the relationships between species of their own interest using gene sequences obtained from a global online database and online bioinformatics software. Click here to view these activities.

Models of human evolution

An online course in which students use fossil evidence to construct and critique models of human evolution. Click here for more information on this resource.

Molecular evidence for human evolution

Investigate relationships between modern humans and ancient hominins using nuclear genome data. Students can access this resource by clicking Students > Online courses on the GTAC homepage. Click here to view this resource.