Biogeography/ Ecosystems. Fully differentiated KS3 lesson - biomes

Lesson Aim:
To practice writing accurate geographical descriptions and conducting additional research using a range of sources.

Lesson Objectives:
1. To establish what a biome is
2. To use an atlas to describe the geographical distribution of biomes
3. To carry out additional research to add biome facts to your maps

Resources included:
PowerPoint presentation including hyperlinks to video clips
Lesson plan
Lower ability biomes card sort
Homework mapping worksheet (print the six slide PowerPoint document as a single-page A4 handout sheet)

Lesson 3 of 10 from my new scheme of work on Biogeography/ Ecosystems.
Also works as a stand alone lesson on biomes.
Fully differentiated with resources and additional research tasks for lower and higher ability pupils.

This lesson is from a scheme of work that I have written for my Year 8 groups, but it could be easily adapted for Year 7 or 9.

Three progress checks have been incorporated into this lesson.