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Structure of a plant
Aimed at KS3 students.
This lesson recaps KS2 prior knowledge on the structure of a plant. Before moving onto KS3 content about structure and function of parts of the plant, followed by a plant dissection, accompanied by worksheets.
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Plate boundaries - differentiated tasks
Low ability - fill in the gaps activity with the first letter of each missing word
Middle ability - fill in the gaps
High ability - explain themselves
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Energy transfers
Simple worksheet to show energy transfers and diagrams. Aimed at year 7 students, could be used for lower ability older students.
A Higher and lower ability version.
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waves required practicals
aimed at higher students
Starter; Retrieval starter
Main: Videos of the practicals followed by write up questions.
Exam question plenary
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waves required practical
Aimed at foundation students
Starter: Retrieval questions based on P1
Main: Videos of the required practicals, followed by a write up. Structure strips to guide write up. Mark scheme on powerpoint.
Exam question plenary
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wave equation
Aimed at foundation students
Starter: Retrieval practice questions based on P1
Main: Mini recap of parts of a wave and key definitions.
Both period and wave speed equation demonstrated on powerpoint with examples and practice.
Then move onto the SLOP worksheet with faded practice and exam questions. All answers on the power point
Plenary: Mini white board plenary
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wave equations
Aimed at higher ability students
Starter: retrieval questions based on P1
Main: Mini review of parts of the wave.
Both wave period and wave speed equations shown with examples in the powerpoint.
Differentiated worksheet to consolidate wave equation, starting with faded practice, followed by lots of SLOP, and finally exam questions on the wave equation.
All answers are on the powerpoint
Plenary: Mini white board plenary
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Wave equations
Starter - retrieval questions
Main - Wave equations explained with examples.
wave period questions on the powerpoint.
Worksheet that is differentiated with questions for the wave equation
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Properties of waves
Starter - retrieval questions based on P1 energy
Main -
-explaination of what a wave is
task to sort waves into mechanical / electromagnetic
Description of transverse/longitudinal
Worksheet to complete, answers included
Exam question plenary
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Magnification
Starter: Retrieval starter, based on prior knowledge about animal and plant cells
Main:
explaination of how to convert between common units used in biology
Differentiated task to convert between units
-explaination of how to use standard form
questions to practice on standard form
microscope questions to explain examples
differentiated magnfication worksheet
Plenary:
plenary grid with questions from this lesson and based on animal and plant cells. to be done individually or as a group
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Magnification equation worksheet
Differentiated practice using the magnfication equation.
Bronze: very simple, simple put the numbers into the equation
silver: need for rearranging equation
gold: need for rearranging equation and converting between units, and measuring image size from image
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Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells
Combining both B1.2 and B1.3 from the kerboodle topic
Starter: No goal starter, images of plant and animal cell and a microscope. students can add any information they already know. Images can be printed or a list of what they know can be wrote. To be referred to at the end of the topic, assess prior knowledge
Main:
Label plant and animal cell, differentiated version available, animated answers embedded in the powerpoint
Match structure and function of organelles
Show students bacterial cell, students draw and label their own, before filling in the comparison tick box to compare animal, plant and bacteria cells. Stretch task available
Explain key words prokaryotic and eukaryotic, then students complete the assessed questions showing understanding of differences between these cells. Self assess answer using mark scheme
Plenary
Plenary grid, can be done individually or as teams. Covers key concepts from the lesson, answers on the following slide