ESS Ecology Unit – Subtopic 2.1 (Standard Level) Individuals, populations, communities 2024

A fully resourced set of teaching materials for ESS Ecology Unit 2.1 – Individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems. A subtopic for the new IB Diploma Environmental Systems and Societies course, first assessment 2026, which is first taught in 2024.

Created by an IB curriculum developer, examiner & workshop facilitator, this Standard Level sub-topic is part of the Ecology topic that is the second unit of the ESS course.

This unit contains six lessons with PowerPoint presentations and worksheets that can be used both in-person and for online learning, added to your Google Classroom, or opened using Google Slides.

Save yourself time, all resources are ready to click and go! All my resources are informed by over 15 years of IB DP ESS teaching and examiner experience, so you can be sure you are getting a quality resource with everything you need to teach the IB ESS content.

Features:
• Lesson 1 – Introduction to the biosphere
• Lesson 2 – Biotic and abiotic factors (Practical skills)
• Lesson 3 – Population interactions
• Lesson 4 – Measuring populations (Fieldwork skills)
• Lesson 5 – Capture, mark, release, recapture (Practical skills)
• Lesson 6 – Human impacts on ecosystems
• Worksheets to support learning tasks
• Clear lesson aims to meet the 2024 syllabus strands (SL)
• Key ESS terminology highlighted
• Engaging classroom activities
• Technicians notes for experiment preparation
• Knowledge review questions
• Home learning tasks
• Starter and plenary activities

The resource is completely developed by me as an author with no use of Artificial Intelligence tools.