Year 7 Classification and Life Kingdoms

• Year 7 Classification and Life Kingdoms
• Full lesson resources provided
• Covers: Criteria for life (MRS GREN) /need for classification/cells as basis for life/ difference between multicellular and unicellular life/ hierachy of multicellular life/ inquiry in classification of life kingdoms

Lesson powerpoint and instructions
Slide 1: Differentiated starter activity
Slide 2-4: Review of starter activity (teacher led)
Slide 5: Introduction to lesson goals and success criteria. Lesson goals are differentiated by outcome.
Slides 6-8: Teacher led- cells as a structure of life. Embedded (public) video
Slide 9: Introduction to life kingdoms
Slide 10: Activity: card sort- student sort examples into life kingdoms (word document provided)
Slide 11: Teacher led review of activity answers - class discussion
Slide 12: Activity: students use the questions (powerpoint slide) to discuss and share in class discussion. Analogy of working in groups vs alone to compare to unicellular life vs multicellular.
Slide 13: Teacher led review and overview of life kingdoms approach
Slide 14: Teacher led: How are multicellular organisms organised?
Slide 15: Activity instructions: student the fact pages (word document provided)to create a summary table (on slide) of the different life kingdoms
Slide 16: Review activity answers
Slide 17: Review lesson goals and success criteria.

Word documents

• Kingdoms cart activity
• Life kingdoms inquiry table
• Life kingdoms inquiry info page