Biodiversity KS3 AQA (Basic lesson)

This is the basic lesson resource bundle on Biodiversity. Premium and Deluxe bundles contain additional resources.This is a collection of resources on Biodiversity for KeyStage Three (KS3) Science and Biology teachers (students aged 11-14). It is based on the new KS3 AQA Science specification. It aims to teach students the meaning of biodiversity, the importance of biodiversity, how lack of biodiversity can impact ecosystems and humans and factors that reduce biodiversity. The lesson is designed to be clear, colourful and engaging and to help students to think about issues for themselves. The resources are designed for one lesson.

Resources are as follows:

• Lesson PowerPoint with notes on slides on how to use. Scroll down on the preview to see the slides.
• Differentiated work sheets to accompany this.
• Differentiated definition sheets
• Notes on the resources
• Study Stack questions and slide to aid student revision/use in class as a plenary.

The lesson PowerPoint covers:

• The definition of Biodiversity
• Biodiverse versus non-biodiverse ecosystems (ecosystem is defined)
• Biodiversity within a species
• Interdependence
• YouTube links to videos
• Looking at food webs and the effect of different species dying out
• Human dependence on biodiversity
• Human effects on biodiversity.

In addition, the PowerPoints come in light and dark versions to suit preferences/classroom situations.

The lesson PowerPoint has notes on the slides to assist Science teachers who are not teaching thier specialism.

The differentiated worksheets link directly to the PowerPoint and are provided in greyscale for printing.