NEW AQA GCSE Trilogy or Triple (2016) Biology - Adaptation and Extremophile

This lesson is designed for the New AQA Biology GCSE, specifically the Ecology scheme of work. It is aimed at a higher ability class but is easily differentiated downwards. This resource contains many of the PiXL think hard strategies to aid in students understanding and retention as well as to improve their application skills.

This resource contains:
1 PPT which has all tasks on the slides and requires no printing for this lesson.
1 Knowledge organiser (KO) which should be set prior to this lesson so that students have a basic understanding of some of the key terms and ideas.

Starter - Quick quiz to assess how well students have memorised their KO.
Task 1 - Students are to transform information from the slides into pictures.
Checkpoint quiz
A small amount of teacher talk, or you could print off the information slides and students could use that to complete the next task
Task 2 - Extremophiles. Students are to create their own extremophiles. They must design one for a cold climate and one for a hot climate and label their diagrams. they also must say how each adaptation helps the organism to function in its environment.
Plenary - Students to create their own mark scheme for an exam question. Use visualizer if possible to show students how to unpick the exam question to work out what to put.