This lesson is a key stage 3 lesson (Year 9) that is 60 minutes long.
Success criteria:
Identify and give examples of inherited and environmental variation
Describe how inherited and environmental variation is caused
Explain why environmental variation can confuse the idea of a species
Included:
Starter Career link [Hook]
Content & Presentation.
Checking for understanding [Assessment for learning]
SEEC (Select, Explore, Explain, Consolidate) table – for literacy (Variation)
Independent Practice [Bronze, Silver & Gold Task]
Markscheme included
Whole class check for understanding [whiteboards]
Opportunities for Self/Peer Assessment
Worksheet printed double sided as an A5 booklet [unblurred when bought]
Colour coded knowledge organiser.
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Labelled heart diagram - colour coded pic and labelling
Right side function - colour coded
Left side function - colour coded
Artery, vein and capillary pictures, transport direction
How arteries branch into capillaries back into veins
Table of different between the three vessels
Independent work created for students in an SEN school.
Included:
information on 4 stages,
hormones LH, FSH, Oestrogen and Progesterone.
Graph displaying hormone levels and uterus lining thickness.
10 questions with answers at the end
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This lesson is 50 minutes long, created for SEN/LAP pupils.
Created for Year 10 – KS4 – AQA/Edexcel
This is a part two lesson so does not cover the definitions. Please see my other upload.
Included:
Starter
Content and presentation – digestive system, active transport to blood via the small intestine cells,
Task 1 – active transport in humans [labelling, tick correct, add arrows to show glucose movement, select correct word]
Content and presentation – parts of a plant, importance of roots, links to photosynthesis and the root hair cell picture with minerals
Task 2 – active transport in plants [plant labelling, photosynthesis equation, select correct word, gapfill]
Plenary – sort statements [osmosis, diffusion, active transport]
1 x worksheets –unblurred when bought [print 2 pages per sheet, single sided to be folded and stuck into books]
Created for students in a SEN (Autism) school.
Included:
2 x worksheets - unblurred when bought
Starter activity - why is pollution in a river concerning
Career link - Ecologist - Hook
Intro - what ecologists use to measure organism numbers
Relevance - why do we need to record organism numbers
Calculating the area of a field using a measuring wheel
What a quadrat is and how we use this
ACTIVTY - An example of how to calculate estimated population size from a mean, using a 0.25m2 quadrat. 3 steps.
ACTIVITY - Students collect data of daisies and buttercups in a field using a quadrat
Plenary - Students see that this works by working out the estimated number of daisies from a picture on the board using 5 random numbers that correspond to the quadrat number
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Created for students in an SEN (Autism) School. You will need a light metre, Lux app will do on your phone, quadrats and transects
Included:
2 x worksheets unblurred when bought - slide 1 and 2
Starter - why do mature trees need to die before new trees can grow in forests
Career link - Ecotoxicologist
What animals and plants compete for
Abiotic and biotic factors
Photosynthesis recap
What a transect is and why we use this
ACTIVITY - Students collect data on how daisy growth is affected by light. You need to pick an area that goes from shade to light. This could be a building or tree.
ACTIVITY - Graph creation and conclusion
Answers included
Plenary - graph analysis, students select the correct answer that correctly describes the graph trend.
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TRADITIONAL FOOD AND SCIENCE
This lesson is a key stage 3 or 4 lesson that is 60 minutes long. This was developed as part of a culture day lesson linking science with culture.
Included:
Starter – what are some traditional foods in your culture.
Career link - Food Anthropologist
7 x A3 printout information hunt detailing traditional food, origins and science link of the following:
British - stilton cheese
African - Plantain
Italian - Prosciutto
German - Sauerkraut
Polish - Kielbasa
Chinese - Century Egg
Japanese - Natto
Content & Presentation slides:
What is traditional food
Chemistry - atoms making up molecules inside of food
Molecules in food
Food chemistry - chemical reactions rearranging atoms
pH - acidity and alkaline FOOD LINK
Enzymes as workers of cells FOOD LINK
Osmosis definition and FOOD LINK
Fermentation definition and FOOD LINK
Anaerobic respiration definition and FOOD LINK
Worksheet on slide 2 and 3 - student exploration
Scientific keyword definitions
Tick box table of food in different cultures
When did these traditional foods originate in history
Table completion of the scientific process (e.g. fermentation, osmosis etc) and space to write down what it does.
Answers included - Opportunity for Self/Peer Assessment
**PRINT SLIDE 2 TO 3 FOR WORKSHEET
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