DISTANCED LEARNING GCSE Ecosystems - Introduction (Lesson + Resources)

First lesson in the GCSE Living world topic - This is designed to me completed at home via distance learning. **Topic: Introduction to Ecosystems **

WORKBOOK - POWERPOINT - ANSWER BOOKLET

To be used with GCSE Geography AQA Student Book (GCSE Geography AQA 2016) by Simon Ross and Nick Rowles

LESSON PLAN:

1. Starter : Spider-gram of everything you can remember about ecosystems form year 8. Add this to the bubble in the workbook.
2. Fill in the definitions table on the workbook from what you can remember and use Google to help you.
3. Watch the film clip on the PP to help you and give you an introduction to how an ecosystem works.
4. Fill in a couple of food chains from the clip or your prior knowledge in the workbook.
5. See if you can match up a red meaning with a black definition. You may need to google ones you are not sure of. Also use the PP to help you.
6. Biotic and Abiotic. Write the definitions from the PP in your workbook.
7. Look at the bubble sheet of the major components of an ecosystem and think about their role and their links with other components. On the bubble sheet make some links by drawing arrows between components and write on the arrow what the link is.
8. Have a read about what trophic levels are from PP.
9. Complete the set of questions on the “food web in a temperate forest”
10. Look at an ecosystem as a system and try to find examples of inputs processes and outputs.
11. Complete the food web diagram for a woodland ecosystem.
    Plenary : What terminology can you remember? Test yourself.