IGCSE Infoquest: Food and nutrition

InfoQuests are a form of guided note-taking for the students. They are closely linked to specific textbooks and cover set sections of a spciic syllabus. The questions are often phrased as exam-style questions in order to enable the students to become familiar with the phraseology eg: differences between instruction words such as State, Describe and Explain.

InfoQuests are particularly useful to set as independent learning activities, holiday work, cover work or for students who are travelling or ill for a period of time.

I have several available for the Biology IGCSE book by Mary Jones. The Food and Nutrition book (fits with Chapter 4 mainly) is already available in Word and ready to email. Let me know if you are interested. I would also like to know if people are using other textbooks for IGCSE so that I can develop infoquests for these too.

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IGCSE e-course

This is an online course from www.e-socrates.org
It has topic notes and quizzes and does not require a fee. It is licensed under the creative commons license. Nice to see a course specifically for IGCSE.

Direct link to IGCSE page is:

http://www.e-socrates.org/course/view.php?id=127

IGCSE Biology definition test 2

Here is a zombie game which requires a faster response otherwise the zombie get you! This continues the definitions and as before I am working through the syllabus in order.

Link is:

http://www.what2learn.com/games/play/5934/

Game number 5934

Another what2learn IGCSE biology game

Here is another attempt at a What2Learn game. The link is: http://www.what2learn.com/games/play/5727/

Game number 5727

Not as much fun as shooting tanks or fighting zombies (coming soon) but it does the job. I am finding it difficult to keep the definitions to just 100 characters and of course they are not grouped by subject. I will do topic specific games after I have completed the list of definitions mentioned in the syllabus. I am doing the definitions first as I have found that they always ask for a couple in the exams and there is little room for the students own wording, to get all the marks they need to learn definitions almost word for word.

If you make any then add a comment with the game information and I will add the link.

IGCSE online games

I must recommend this great site What2learn.
This site allows you to make simple but fun games based on any subject you like. The games are kept online and you can provide links to them or even embed them into your own blogs. This service is entirely free of charge and both teachers and students can sign up. The teacher can make the games and bookmark them for students or have a group sign in and have the students design their own games. The site is easy to use and the games very quick to develop.
I have embedded my first one below. There are a couple of truncated questions as I wrote out the full definitions as given in the Cambridge 0610 2010 IGCSE Biology syllabus. However I think it is still okay to use. I plan to do a full set of games covering the definitions (using a variety of games) so keep an eye out for them.

The link for the game is:

http://www.what2learn.com/games/play/5724/

So you can copy and paste this into your browser and bookmark it. You can also visit the site and type in game number 5724. The embedded version is below, have fun: This has now been removed due to the fact it makes a daft noise when you log in. Email me if you want the html code to embed it into your own website.