Birth
Activity 1: Fertility
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7E Learning Cycle
Darcy realises
the fertility clinic is the
last hope for childless
couples.
What could stop
a couple having
a baby?
Darcy explains
the test results to the
childless couple.
How an egg
and sperm come
together.
Many things can
prevent sperm from
fertilising eggs.
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Engage
Elicit
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Extend
Evaluate
Its your first day at your
next placement.
While you are searching
for the fertility clinic, you
get chatting to a couple
headed for the same place.
You realise how important
your next job will be.
The clinic is our last
hope. We’re desperate
for a baby, but I can’t
seem to get pregnant.
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Engage
Elicit
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Extend
Evaluate
Hi, I’m Suzanne –
the nurse
coordinator here.
You’ll be helping me
find out why couples
can’t have babies.
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Engage
Elicit
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Extend
Evaluate
Let’s start
your training.
Take a look at
that picture on the
wall.
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Engage
Elicit
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Extend
Evaluate
This is where it all
begins.
What are these cells
and where have they
come from?
What will
happen next?
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Engage
Elicit
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Extend
Evaluate
Student Sheets 1 and 2
What could
go wrong to stop
Chloe getting
pregnant?
ovary
where
eggs
develop
Study the
diagrams and data.
I want to hear
your ideas.
uterus
where
baby
grows
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testes
where
sperm
develop
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Engage
Elicit
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Chloe and Jack
have come in
for tests.
Extend
Evaluate
Student Sheet 3
Choose two that
will check your
ideas.
Initial checks
Sperm check
Blood tests
Ultrasound scan
Tube X-ray
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Engage
Elicit
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Extend
Evaluate
Collect your
results from
the lab…
..and see if
you need to run
more tests.
If so, choose two
more initial or
follow-up tests.
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Initial checks
Sperm check
Blood tests
Ultrasound scan
Tube X-ray
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Engage
Elicit
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Extend
Evaluate
The lab phoned.
Your results are
ready.
See if you can tell
what’s wrong now.
If not,
choose two
more tests.
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Initial checks
Sperm check
Blood tests
Ultrasound scan
Tube X-ray
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Engage
Elicit
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Extend
Evaluate
Your test
results are
ready.
I hope you have
an answer now!
If not, you’d better
run more tests.
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Engage
Elicit
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Extend
Evaluate
Let’s just clarify what
patients need to know.
A new life begins
when a sperm cell
nucleus combines with
an egg cell nucleus
during fertilisation.
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Engage
Elicit
Fertilisation
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
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Evaluate
This only happens
if a sperm reaches an
egg soon after it leaves
an ovary…
...and can
get inside the
egg cell.
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Engage
Elicit
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Explain
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Extend
Evaluate
You’ll need to show
Jack and Chloe how eggs
and sperm normally
get together…
...and what we’ve
learned from our
tests.
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Engage
Elicit
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Make sure you know the
scientific name for each part of
their reproductive systems…
Extend
Evaluate
Student Sheet 5
..and can explain
what happens in
each place.
ovary
where
eggs
develop
uterus
where
baby
grows
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testes
where
sperm
develop
I’ve got some
diagrams you can
make notes on.
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Engage
Elicit
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Extend
Evaluate
Chloe and Jack
will be here in
a minute.
Plan what
to tell them.
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Engage
Elicit
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Explain
Elaborate
Extend
Evaluate
Our next task will be
to suggest a solution.
Do you have any
ideas?
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Picture credits
Picture
Background
Fertilised egg
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Credit
Alice Elizabeth Still
Elmar Breitbach
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