Variation Lesson GCSE Biology

Key Stage 4 ~ GCSE Biology~ lesson on Variation. This lesson has a heavy literacy focus and provides opportunities to practice using the keywords from AQA GCSE Biology Topic 6 in context. In this lesson, students will state what is meant by variation in a species, describe how variation arises in a population and decide whether example characteristics vary due to genes, environment or both. Extension questions are included on the slides and there is a pick and mix of different tasks to select from for your students. Follows the GCSE Biology AQA course.

This lesson includes:

• Title slide with learning objectives
• A starter activity
• Discussion exercise; what makes things the same species?
• Group reading (literacy)
• Genes or environment task
• Comprehension questions
• Task boxes
• Variation vocabulary handout sheet
• Includes assessment for learning (AFL). Answer slides included for self-assessment
• Suitable for remote, online, distance learning
• Suitable for supply teaching and home learning. This lesson is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. It assumes that the previous content from topic 6 has been introduced but not necessarily mastered. Discussion/extension answers are in the ppt notes.