Genetic and environmental variation - KS3 Low Ability

A follow up to the ‘Genes and Inheritance’ intro lesson. The lesson is aimed at low to middle ability learners, but could be adapted for faster learners. The PowerPoint has a focus on keeping it simple and visual, with animations to help pace and add emphasis. The lesson covers the usual stuff about genetic vs environmental variation, and gives good examples, opportunities for discussion, group work, class data collection, and practice of bar chart skills. This could easily be spread over 2 x one-hour lessons.

Here are links to all resources in this topic: Genes and inheritance, Genes and environmental variation, Selective breeding, Genetic engineering, and Punnet squares

The PowerPoint uses dyslexia-friendly background, font, and character spacing. Icons indicate the nature of each section - e.g. group work, video, or note-taking. The crossword has two versions - with and without a word bank. Key words, definitions, and phonetic pronunciation are also included in the PowerPoint. Feedback on this dyslexia-friendly style would be greatly appreciated!

All images freely sourced from Pixabay, and comply with the TES author code.