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AUDIENCE - KEY STAGE 3 (PRE-GCSE)

So for my target audience I have decided to make a presentation for Key-Stage 3 or Pre-GCSE, I began by looking at Bitesize

revision since they have some animations about science, particularly biology. They also had an animation to do with bodily cells

so I watched it and took notes about how the animation plays out and how it describes the cell process.

I also looked at a website that gave parents advice about children and young people, this website;

http://www.parentfurther.com. I check out the sections on intellectular development, social development and about schools.

According to this site many Key-Stage 3 children develop more abstract thinking but intellectually begin the process of coming

into adult intelligence, from my interpretation this means that they are beginning to think more openly and absorb new ways

and ideas more easily, it also means that their ability to comprehend more complex knowledge and matters is growing. Other

sites agree that at this age pre-teens and young teens are starting to be able to absorb more comprehensive knowledge about

subjects.

I believe at this point it is necessary to introduce my target audience to some more complex knowledge, the key will be making

it informative without making it boring or uninteresting. To that end I will introduce some of the more complex workings of

influenza cells while keeping the presenetation engaging through the use of animation.

Some basic thumbnails about the

process by which flu attacks other

cells, these are only initial ideas.

I started with a high-tech looking

and then moved onto experiment

with smaller cartoon style

thumbnails.

These thumbnails are continuations of my high

tech idea. The initial number computer code I

did has been swapped out for hexagons to give it

a more solid shape.

I also want to include computer style code in the

animation.

These thumbnails are dedicated towards a

more cartoony approach, the bottom

features an idea about Flu cells ambushing

body cells. The floating factory idea

attempts to draw a parrallel between cells

and factories being productive. This draws

from the idea of my earlier thumbnails

where upon a thief or intruder enters the

factory and forces it to produce flu cells

before the factory collapses.

The last idea was pretty basic, about a

battery cell producing energy being

hijacked.

I did some research into how the flu virus

works in the body. This started out by

watching Dr. Klappa's videos and I expanded

to other sites to get a greater

understanding of Flu.

FLU RESEARCH-Influenza Virus-Debate wheether virus or not, contains RNA genetic materials

-Key proteins (known as Hemagglutinin) on shell interact with receptors on target cell,

enabling access

-Once accessed the RNA is ejected into the nucleus of the cell and hijacks it

-RNA becomes replicated

-Some RNA is transported into the cell machines surrounding the nucleus, the ribosomes

(Ribosomes create new proteins)

-The RNA hijacks the ribosomes and forces them to create new virus proteins RNA instead of

cellular proteins, ribosomes become zombie ribosomes

-Virus proteins travel to the Golgi Apparatus through the cell membranes to create

hemagglutinin keys, these keys emerge onto the surface of the cell

-Virus proteins mass from the centre of the nucleus comes to the cell surface and heads

over to the proteins on the surface.

-A boil of sorts forms on the surface and a new viral cell is created

-This process creates hundreds of thousands of viruses which attacks the cells of the body

-This process kills the host cell through exhaustion

FLU RESEARCH

Not the same as common cold, symptomns are similar but are more severe and longer

lasting. Flu

is caused by different viruses.

It is possible to catch flu year round, but it is common in the winter because of

immunosuppression brought on by the cold.

Flu symptoms can be debilitating.

There is a vaccine for flu and it is widely available though it cannot be relied upon to

provide lifetime immunity due to the mutation strain of the virus. Antibiotics are not

effective treatments because it is not bacteria

Flu is spread by droplets containing the flu virus, commonly through sneezing or

coughing, anyone who breaths in these droplets is at risk of infection. It can also be

transferred through contamination of surfaces .

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/flu/Pages/Introduction.asp

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http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/flu-

cold-symptoms?page=2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza