This detailed lesson outlines the characteristics features of the kingdoms Protoctista, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia. The engaging PowerPoint and accompanying resources have been designed to cover point 18.2 [c] of the CIE International A-level Biology specification which states that students should be able to describe the features of these four eukaryotic kingdoms.
This lesson begins with a knowledge recall as students have to recognise that prior to 1990, kingdom was the highest taxa in the classification hierarchy. Moving forwards, they will recall the names of the five kingdoms and immediately be challenged to split them so that the prokaryotae kingdom is left on its own. The features of this kingdom are given so that the lesson can focus on the four eukaryotic kingdoms. Students are constantly challenged on their understanding of the current topic as well as that of earlier topics, as demonstrated by a differentiated task about the structure and function of cellulose which was covered in topic 2. This task is found in the section of the lesson where the main constituent of the wall can be used to distinguish between plantae, fungi and prokaryotae. Quick quiz competitions, such as SAY WHAT YOU SEE are used to introduce key terms in a fun and memorable way. The final part of the lesson looks at the protoctista kingdom and students will come to understand how these organisms tend to share a lot of animal or plant-like features.
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Great resource. My students had not done classification at GCSE and this really helped them grasp the topic quickly.
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