New AQA Ecology Secification- Communities (4.7.1.1), Abiotic (4.7.1.2) and Biotic Factors (4.7.1.3)

This resource is a PowerPoint presentation that covers the Communities, Abiotic factors and Biotic factors information on the 2016 AQA Ecology specification.

Since there are lots of activities, I spent two lessons going through this PowerPoint with my class, however, you could just miss some out to condense it all into one lesson if you choose.

The basic structure of the lesson is as follows:

1) Starter- Pose, Pause Pounce, Bounce key question to get the students thinking.
2) Information and pictures about habitats, populations and communities.
3) A key word glossary making activity.
4) Mind map activities for Biotic and Abiotic factors.
5) Describe and draw conclusions from the table activity.
6) Describe and draw conclusions from the graph activity.
7) Predator prey video.
8) Describe and draw conclusions from the predator-prey graph activity.
9) Which resources animals and plants compete for activity.
10) Interdependence information and pictures.
11) Quiz, Quiz Trade- question/answer game.
12) A slide with the relevant page numbers and questions from the AQA Text Book.
13) Plenary- Guess the resource from the pictures.
14) Plenary Triangle Activity.

My students loved this and I hope you do too!