Effects on the environment. Habitat, food chains, webs, predator prey cycles. Complete Lesson.

A complete, and ready to deliver, high quality KS3 lesson from Barclayfox.

(For USA - this lesson is for use between 6th to 8th grade.

This is a complete lesson from start to end, you do not need to spend many hours carefully planning, creating, resourcing and improving this lesson after each use. I have already spent those hours preparing this lesson for my students and improving it over many years. This is a very high quality lesson.

There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it.

Lesson objectives:
* Describe ways in which organisms affect their habitats and communities.
* Describe how organisms compete.
* Use a food web to make predictions.
* Explain what is happening during predator/prey cycles.

This carefully crafted lesson is over 30 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below:
* Notes to help the teacher.
* Starter 1 - unscramble the words race.
* Starter 2 - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives.
* Activity sheet (unique) - built into the powerpoint simply print this slide for each student if required - all answers provided.
* Gap fill activity - all answers are provided.
* Questions – all answers are provided.
* Peer marking and Self marking opportunities.
* Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’).
* Play ball.
* Video clip link (carefully selected – this alone can save you 20+ minutes of searching).
* Paired work activities – all answers are provided.
* Homework
* Scientific Literacy activity.
* Scientific Numeracy activity
* SMSC
* Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt.
* Extension activities – just in case additional activities are required.

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This lesson is part of a series, whilst they all work very well as standalone individual lessons you may wish to buy others from the series:
0. Bundles – contain 3 or more of these lessons at a discounted price (however please note not all my series are bundled).
1. Variation
2. Adaptation
3. Effects of the environment (environmental variation).
4 & 5 - please see list in this powerpoint for details.

Thank you, and happy teaching!
Yours,
Barclayfox.