10th Class Science - Biology Study Plan for AP and Telangana Students

1) Yes. You should be ever ready for experiments.
2) You should learn the concepts with prompt concentration.
3) Maintain a running notes, a laboratory record.
4) Write notes on your own. Do experiments and write the observations.
5) Learn the keywords. They are very important to understand the concepts. They shall be useful in future education too.
6) There will not be any important questions or study material. You should be ready to
answer any question. Thus, you need to understand the concept very deeply and should be able to answer any question asked in any context relating to the syllabus.
7) There are a few questions given at the end of each activity. See that you can answer the questions without the help of the teacher.
8) Prepare a plan for each month and write the activities you should concentrate that
month.
9) If you have to do an experiment / activity and you are not provided with the apparatus required, don't get disappointed. Look for improvised apparatus at home or
school, perform the experiment.
10) Do the project works on own. Use appropriate resources to complete the task.
11) Gain grip on drawing skills. Prepare the list of important diagrams and prepare well in labelling them.
12) Think on the applicability of the concepts learned.
13) Prepare some questions for every concept on your own and answer them. This shall equip you with readiness.
14) Concentrate on each topic of the lesson. Your running notes and planning is most important.
15) Prepare mind maps to each concept. It will be a bit difficult for the first few days. Take the help of your teacher.

Self evaluation:

Self evaluation lets you know your capabilities. So, keep testing yourself
once in a week in every subject. In Biology, you can take up a lesson, for
example 'Heredity'. This is a new topic for you. Listen to the lesson. Perform required activities. Learn about the experiments conducted by Mendel. Watch videos about DNA, learn Darwinism, know how species evolved. Then prepare questions on the doubts that arise in your brain.

Take the help of your teacher/ reference books/ videos/ friends etc., and answer these questions. Check for the correctness of the answers.

Plan properly and implement it. Be confident and build up ability of writing answers on your own. Perform experiments and activities. Concentrate on running notes and lab
record. Do lot of project works. Keep preparing own questions and answer them. Discuss with friends, parents and teachers. You shall win if your study plan succeeds.

Your references...

1) Read popular science articles on the topics of your lessons.
2) Biology dictionary.
3) Biology experiments for high school students book.
4) Metabolic activities book.
5) Reference books (ask your librarian for reference books.)

10th Class Biology Study Plan - Preparation Tips for AP and Telangana Students

There are 9 concepts in every chapter. Every concept is important.
1. Lesson: They are more elaborate and have concepts that deal with the logical capabilities of the students. They also aim at improving the scientific temper.

2. Think and discuss: See these boxes in every lesson. You are supposed to answer the questions given in them. Use any method to draw your answers. Make sure you answer them on your own.

3. Do you know?: These are information boxes. You can see tables/ information/ science facts/ scientists and their inventions relating to the concept of the lesson.

4. Activities (experiments): There are 2 to 6 activities in each chapter. You can do these activities individually or in groups. These activities include experiments, project works, studying facts and analyses, simple techniques, observations etc.,

5. Lab activity: These are laboratory experiments. Students should maintain a lab record in order to do the experiments and note them down.

6. Learn to do experiments and record them in appropriate manner. Altogether, there are 6 lab activities in the textbook. These activities should be performed in the laboratory and you should be well aware of the process and purpose of the experiments.

7. You can perform a few of them at home also. There is no rule that you cannot do experiments at home. You people can do footwork and preparations at home or with your
friends to make it easy while performing experiments in the laboratory.

Key words: Important words/ terminology related to the lesson are given here. You should know the definitions / meanings of the words given in this topic.

What we have learnt (Important points): A single glance of the important points of the
lesson.

Improve your learning (Assessment of Academic Standards through questions and bits): This concept includes questions, fill in the blanks and multiple-choice questions. They are based on the Academic Standards mentioned in the starting pages of the textbook.

The questions given here are just to give you knowledge about the type of questions that can be asked in the exams. You need to prepare well to answer any type of question given in the exams.

Annexure: There are six annexure topics in the whole textbook. These topics deal with the concept of the lesson and give excess information about it.

Long term strategies:

You know that you have one long academic year to focus on the studies. So, you can plan your study according to it.

1) Write a time-table on how much of time you can give for each subject.
2) Set the necessary stationary, improvised apparatus and reference books.
3) Download necessary videos or animations from internet if possible.
4) Allot time for each lesson and its revision.
5) See that you tick mark on the time-table you prepared, when you complete the task.
6) This will show you how dedicated you are towards your study plan.

10th Class Biology Preparation Plan for New Textbook - AP and Telangana

In Tenth Class Biology new text book, the new approach aims at strengthening the backbone of the student. The practical experiments aim at improving the logical and reasoning capabilities and performing skills of the students.

There is more emphasis on writing own notes, maintaining a running notes and laboratory record. The new textbooks have new mode of presentation of the lesson. The titles of the lessons and their sub headings are new. The method through which the topics are dealt is new.

Lessons in the textbook:

1) There are 10 units in the textbook.
2) Each unit is prescribed with a process to follow by the teachers as well as students.
3) The format of the lessons is designed in student friendly manner. There are questions posed after each concept and the student have to answer it through observation or inference. Keep in view the academic standards mentioned in the textbook.
4) All these academic standards should be achieved by the students in every lesson.
5) Every lesson follows the same competencies.
6) Every chapter deals with both animal/ human life and plant life. This method lets us know the metabolic activity happening both in animal as well as plant life.

Academic standards:

1) There are 7 academic standards given in the textbook.
2) These academic standards should be achieved in every lesson according to the need.
3) Students should remember that the evaluation of the subject will be based on these
academic standards.

1. Conceptual understanding: Students should understand the concept and should be able to explain, give reasons and comparisons/ differences. They should develop their own brain mapping.

2. Asking questions and making hypothesis: Writing or preparing questions about the
concept studied lets the students raise doubts and clarify them. They shall learn
how to pose questions.

3. Experimentation and field investigation: Students shall learn to perform experiments
and maintain a laboratory record. They shall do field investigation for required topics.

4. Information skills and projects: Every student should know how to gather information
regarding the concepts of their lessons. There are activities in the lessons that make
the students to gather information and to analyze it or present it.

5. Communication through drawing, model making: This academic standard comes under developing the skills of drawing figures and making working models.

6. Appreciation and aesthetic sense, values: Students shall learn to appreciate the nature. They shall understand the importance of biosphere.

7. Application to daily life, concern to bio diversity: Students shall apply the learned concepts in their day to day life.