DISTANCED LEARNING GCSE Ecosystems - Local Case Study Landguard (Lesson + Resources)

3rd lesson in the GCSE Living world topic - This is designed to me completed at home via distance learning. **Topic: Local Ecosystem Case Study **

This is for Landguard Point, Felixstowe but lesson structure could be adapted to locality.

WORKBOOK - POWERPOINT - ANSWER BOOKLET

To be used with GCSE Geography AQA Student Book (GCSE Geography AQA 2016) by Simon Ross and Nick Rowles

**LESSON PLAN: **

1. Review Questions - these look at last week’s work. Try and answer these (on paper) WITHOUT looking at your notes first to test your knowledge and then use your notes to answer.
2. Landguard is a nature reserve in Felixstowe. It is an actual example of how changes can effect an ecosystem. At GCSE we call these case studies. These are really important because the 9 mark questions are where you need to know about them.
3. Use your booklet and the internet to add notes to the location map of Landguard.
4. Build up the table on the structure of Landguard’s ecosystem using PP.
5. Look at the species table and see if you can find some food chains, colour code.
6. How could the ecosystem at Landguard change? Look at each image and come up with ideas. Then use card sort to fill in the spaces on the diagram sheet Threats to Landguards ecosystem card sort and add to table.
7. Application 6 mark question on changes - use thew help to answer it!