KS3 Biology - Food Webs and Food Chains - Activate2: 2.7 - AQA Activate 9.1.1
Challenge opportunities throughout
Students extract food chains from a web
-and-
Construct a web from a series of chains
Answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess
See the lesson taught here:
https://youtu.be/oYQdCwb9J48
Also convenient for students who miss the lesson
Activate 1 - Biology 1 - Chapter 3.7
AQA Activate 9.2.2
Contains Starter, 3 tasks, + plenary
with most answers animating onto the screen
Cut and Stick activity as word document
Watch the lesson taught here:
https://youtu.be/8gwbEmgFbxQ
Also convenient for students who miss the lesson
KS3 Biology - Movement of Substances - Osmosis - Diffusion - Activate 1.4 - AQA Activate 8.2.4
Worksheet included where students have to arrange statements into an order to establish a concentration gradient and diffuse substances into and out of animal cells
Challenge opportunities throughout
Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess
See the lesson taught here:
https://youtu.be/nSHL1_jRPN4
Also convenient for students who missed the lesson
KS3 Biology - Specialised Cells - Activate 1.3 - AQA Activate 8.2.3
Challenge opportunities throughout
Contains worksheet - cut and stick activity that allows students to match up specialised animal cells to their function
Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess
See the lesson taught here:
https://youtu.be/JGHNfL1-i3k
Also convenient for students who missed the lesson
KS3 Biology - Unicellular Organisms - Activate 1.5 - AQA Activate 8.2.5
Worksheet included for labeling Amoeba and Euglena - all contains text for comprehension task
Challenge opportunities throughout
Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess
See the lesson taught here:
https://youtu.be/FJTMHnScORM
Also convenient for students who miss the lesson
AQA Activate 8.2 - Cells
Activate 1 - Chapter B1
5 presentations with 5 accompanying worksheets
8.2.1 Observing cells
8.2.2 Animal and Plant cells
8.2.3 Specialised cells
8.2.4 Movement of Substances
8.2.5 Unicellular Organisms
Observing cells requires the use of microscopes
All lessons contain challenge tasks through out and (almost) all answers animate onto the presentation
KS3 Biology - Anaerobic Respiration - Activate2: 2.6 (+3.1) - AQA Activate 9.3.2
Challenge opportunities throughout
Lesson starts with comparison of 2 types of athletes - one doing aerobic respiration and the other doing anaerobic.
Aerobic respiration equation is recalled
Anaerobic respiration equation is given
Statement as to why anaerobic respiration releases less energy
Oxygen debt is defined
Equation also given for oxygen debt (lactic acid +O2 --> CO2 + H2O)
Anaerobic respiration in plants and yeast - equation and comparison to anaerobic respiration in animals
6 mark question on comparing aerobic and anaerobic respiration
Plenary which relates oxygen debt to shortness of breath following exercise
Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess
See the lesson taught here:
https://youtu.be/_nltNBZnOxE
Also convenient for students who may have missed the lesson.
KS3 Biology - Aerobic Respiration - Activate2: 2.5 - AQA Activate 9.3.1
Lesson covers:
Recap of the components of the atmosphere and that percentage of oxygen in the exhaled breath is lower - this leads into what oxygen could be used for.
Photosynthesis equation is recalled and aerobic respiration is defined, as well as the terms endothermic and exothermic reactions - assigning these terms to photosynthesis and aerobic respiration respectively.
Three specialised cell types are considered - sperm cell, muscle cell, and root hair cell - all of which have a lot of mitochondria - students are asked to make the link between the number of mitochondria, the function of the specialised cell, and how much energy that would require.
Further analysis of the topic links it with the digestion of carbohydrates to get glucose ,and how oxygen is transported from the lungs to the tissues for aerobic respiration.
Challenge opportunities throughout + worksheet
Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess
See the lesson taught here:
https://youtu.be/Ptg_SeAYZk8
Also convenient for students who are absent from lessons
KS3 Biology - Unhealthy Diet - Activate2: 1.3 - AQA Activate 8.4.3
Lesson assumes completion of lesson: "Nutrients - Activate"
Lesson can still be completed without using the “completed nutrient table” worksheet included in the lesson
TASK 1 - requires the Food Labels worksheet and can be used with physical food labels from packaging although this is not required for the lesson and sheet can be completed by going through the food labels on screen
TASK 2 - will require the nutrient table from previous lessons (or the support worksheet included)
Challenge opportunities throughout + Worksheets
Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess
KS3 Biology - Ecosystems and Competition - Activate2: 3.7 AQA Activate 10.3.3 + 10.3.4
Challenge opportunities throughout
Many answers animate onto screen to allow opportunity of peer/self assess
Lesson video here:
https://youtu.be/gZ3H6e25UDU
Also available for students absent from lesson and those wanting to revise
Bundle contains 3 presentations covering:
10.3.1 - Natural Selection
10.3.2 - Charles Darwin
10.3.3 / 10.3.4 - Extinction + Preserving Biodiversity
These 3 lessons contain the all the content for the 4 subtopics contained within the Evolution topic.