Key Stage 4 ~ GCSE Biology~ lesson on Evolution. In this lesson, students will describe the process of evolution by natural selection, explain the evidence for evolution and discuss why Charles Darwin’s work was controversial. Extension questions are included on the slides and there is a pick and mix of different tasks to select from for your students. Follows the GCSE Biology AQA course. This lesson includes: Title slide with learning objectives A starter activity What are these characteristics for? Group reading (literacy) Keywords (vocabulary: fittest, phenotypic variation, genotypic variation, evolution and adaptation) Task boxes Order the steps to show Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Discussion exercise Comprehension questions Handout sheet task Includes assessment for learning (AFL). Answer slides included for self-assessment Suitable for remote, online, distance learning Suitable for supply teaching and home learning. This lesson is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. It assumes that the previous content from topic 6 has been introduced but not necessarily mastered. Discussion/extension answers are in the ppt notes.

Key Stage 4 ~ GCSE Biology~ lesson on Genetic Diagrams. In this lesson, students will explain the difference between dominant and recessive characteristics and learn how to use two different types of genetic diagram to show the odds of inheriting traits controlled by one gene. They will then use family trees to show how to track inherited traits. Extension questions are included on the slides and there is a pick and mix of different tasks to select from for your students. Follows the GCSE Biology AQA course. This lesson includes: Title slide with learning objectives A starter activity Group reading Discussion Exercise Keywords (vocabulary: characteristics, alleles, dominant allele, recessive allele, homozygous and heterozygous) Comprehension questions Modelling genetic diagrams Paired exercise Handout sheet exercise Order the steps Task boxes Includes assessment for learning (AFL). Answer slides included for self-assessment Suitable for remote, online, distance learning Suitable for supply teaching and home learning. This is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge, Discussion/extension answers are in the ppt notes.

Key Stage 4 ~ GCSE Biology~ lesson on Fossils. In this lesson, students will describe three ways in which fossils can form. They will explain how fossils provide evidence for how life on Earth developed. Extension questions are included on the slides and there is a pick and mix of different tasks to select from for your students. Follows the GCSE Biology AQA course. This lesson includes: Title slide with learning objectives A starter activity Group reading (literacy) Task boxes Comprehension questions Discussion exercise Order the steps Handout sheet task Includes assessment for learning (AFL). Answer slides included for self-assessment Suitable for remote, online, distance learning Suitable for supply teaching and home learning. This lesson is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. It assumes that the previous content from topic 6 has been introduced but not necessarily mastered. Discussion/extension answers are in the ppt notes.

Key Stage 4 ~ GCSE Biology~ full lesson on Reproduction in Bacteria. This lesson is a bit longer as it includes post-practical exercises as well as a full theory lesson. Pupils will explain how prokaryotic cells reproduce and calculate the number of bacteria in a population. They will also describe culturing microorganisms. Extension questions are included on the slides and there is a pick and mix of different tasks to select from for your students. Follows the GCSE Biology AQA course. This lesson includes: -Title slide with learning objectives -A starter activity -Group reading (literacy) -Task boxes -Numeracy task -Discussion exercise -Handout sheet task -Order the steps -Comprehension questions -Answer slides included for self-assessment -Suitable for remote, online, distance learning -Suitable for supply teaching and home learning. This is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. Discussion/extension answers are in the ppt notes. -Next lesson Diffusion and Osmosis https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12831793 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Dr_Troilo

Key Stage 4 ~ GCSE Biology~ lesson on Comparing Nerves and Hormones. In this lesson pupils will recap some of what they have learned in previous lessons about nerves and hormones, compare their similarities and differences and decide whether different examples are nerves or hormones. Extension questions are included on the slides and there is a pick and mix of different tasks to select from for your students. Follows the GCSE Biology AQA course. This lesson includes: Title slide with learning objectives A starter activity Group reading (literacy) Discussion exercise Nerves or hormones Task boxes Comprehension questions Handout sheet task Answer slides included for self-assessment Suitable for remote, online, distance learning Suitable for supply teaching and home learning. This is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. It does assume that students have already covered the basics of the nervous (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12960383) and endocrine systems (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13027931). Discussion/extension answers are in the ppt notes. Next lesson Blood Glucose and Diabetes https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13031727

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