AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification Unit 1B: In this lesson we look at what how plants and animals have adapted to the environmental conditions in the rainforest.
The lesson has a retrieval practice starter to begin with. We then look at what biodiversity is and why the rainforests are particularly diverse. We then look at rainforest stratification and plant adaptations. The students have a sheet to complete and some information slides to use to complete the sheet. This could be used as a carousel or group work task. The sheet can even be coloured in! Then the students complete a mix and match up task on the most common types of animal adaptations. The students then complete a rating task with explanation as to how significant are threats to biodiversity in the rainforest. We finish with a GCSE-style practice question with some guidance and structure provided for the students.
Hope this saves you some valuable planning time.
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New for the AQA Activate 2 unit ‘Genes’
Full lesson ready to use straight ‘out of the box’.
Though designed for teachers to deliver (specialist and non-specialists), the lessons are structured in an intuitive way for students to navigate for independent/ remote learning/ homework covering missed content/recap
Similar structure to my other power points following the input - activity - review phasing
plenary sections for progress checking
Clear learning objectives and outcomes
Modern and engaging layout
Little adaptation needed
Covers an hour lesson of content matched to the specification
36 ppt slides
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Maintaining biodiversity is a comprehensive lesson designed to help GCSE students develop their understanding of programmes that mitigate human activities effects on biodiversity through engaging activities and differentiated instruction.
This lesson is the 7th in a series of lessons and covers the content from the AQA 4 4.7.3.6 Maintaining biodiversity lesson (B7 Ecology unit), and AQA GCSE Biology OUP Scheme B18.7 Maintaining biodiversity lesson (B18 Biodiversity and ecosystems chapter).
The lesson includes all necessary resources, making it easy to implement in your classroom and the lesson’s text is adaptable, allowing you to adjust the duration and depth of the activities based on your students’ progress and time constraints.
Presentation contains (26 slides):
● Lesson Prep and Technician Notes: Guidance notes for teachers to prepare the lesson and technician instructions.
● Bell Work / Do Now Activity: Engaging task to activate student prior knowledge and set the stage for the lesson.
● Clear Lesson Aim, Objectives & Success Criteria: Explicitly defined learning targets to guide students and measure their understanding.
● Discussion Slides: Thought-provoking prompts and questions to introduce the topic.
● Information Slides with Levelled Content: Varied levels of information catering to diverse learning styles and abilities.
● Differentiated Activities (Group Work): Collaborative tasks in small groups to encourage active participation and enhance learning.
● Differentiated Questions with Answers: Comprehensive questions with accompanying solutions for self-assessment and note-taking.
Aimed at a mixed ability class covering content Grades 1-9, with three levels of demand to accommodate different learning styles and levels.
● Level 1: Low demand
● Level 2: Standard demand
● Level 3: High demand
This lesson is also available as a digital worksheet, which is ideal for absent students to catch-up missed work, distance learning, home schooling, or independent study.
Maintaining biodiversity Distance learning
If you require more assistance, please contact me at-
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This power point includes all parts of the 4.2.1 specification and is approximately 9-10 lessons, depending upon pace. Activity sheets included. Each lesson finishes with summary questions and/or exam questions to check understanding. Lessons include:
What is biodiversity?
Sampling techniques
Capture-mark-release-recapture
Calculating biodiversity
PAG 3.1
Genetic diversity
Factors affecting biodiversity
Reasons for maintaining biodiversity
Maintaining biodiversity
This resource includes 51 power point slides for five lessons on ‘Biodiversity and ecosystem’ including the work sheets, activities, learning objectives, key terms and detailed content to be taught. The topics included are
The human population explosion
Land and water pollution
Air pollution
Deforestation and peat destruction
Global warming
A bundle of resources covering the whole of the OCR Biology specification section 4.2.1- Biodiversity
It covers:
what is biodiversity
Factors threatening biodiversity
Reasons to protect biodiversity
sampling strategies
Sampling PAG 3.1
Calculating simpsons diversity index
Conservation techniqes
All lessons include a starter, full notes, various student activities and a fully differentiated summary
All answers included
Designed for the new specification AQA GCSE( covers spec point 4.7.3.1 ) course but can be modified for other exam boards.
12 slides covering the following objectives:
Define biodiversity
Describe why biodiversity is important
Explain how waste, deforestation and global warming have an impact on biodiversity.
**“There is a different starter for combined or Triple students” **
Lesson for As Biology briefly looking at what Biodiversity is and how to sample it followed by calculating Simpsons Biodiversity. Any "Book Questions" refers to OCR As/A level Biology A book. Please rate the resource.
Learning objectives:
To be able to state what is meant by an endangered species.
To be able to explain some of the advantages and disadvantages of captive breeding.
To be able to describe some techniques used to prevent extinction.
Biodiversity and ecosystems contains 12 comprehensive lessons designed to help GCSE students develop their understanding of the human population explosion, pollution, deforestation, global warming and the impact of climate change, strategies to maintain biodiversity, trophic levels and biomass transfer, food security, intensive farming methods, and sustainable food production through engaging activities and differentiated instruction.
These lessons cover the content from the AQA B7 Ecology unit, and AQA GCSE Biology OUP Scheme B18 Biodiversity and ecosystems chapter.
The lessons include all necessary resources, making them easy to implement in your classroom. Additionally, the editable text allows you to adjust the duration and depth of the activities based on your students’ progress and time constraints.
Each editable presentation contains:
● Lesson Prep and Technician Notes: Guidance notes for teachers to prepare the lesson and technician instructions.
● Bell Work / Do Now Activity: Engaging task to activate student prior knowledge and set the stage for the lesson.
● Clear Lesson Aim, Objectives & Success Criteria: Explicitly defined learning targets to guide students and measure their understanding.
● Discussion Slides: Thought-provoking prompts and questions to introduce the topic.
● Information Slides with Levelled Content: Varied levels of information catering to diverse learning styles and abilities.
● Differentiated Activities (Group Work): Collaborative tasks in small groups to encourage active participation and enhance learning.
● Practical Activity (if appropriate): Hands-on experience to apply concepts and gain practical skills.
● Differentiated Questions with Answers: Comprehensive questions with accompanying solutions for self-assessment and note-taking.
● Student Worksheets/Handouts (if appropriate): Printable materials for students to complete and gather notes.
● Homework Activities (if appropriate): Varied homework tasks to cater to individual needs and promote independent learning.
Aimed at a mixed ability class covering content Grades 1-9, with three levels of demand to accommodate different learning styles and levels.
● Level 1: Low demand
● Level 2: Standard demand
● Level 3: High demand
If you require more assistance, please contact me at-
info@cmgsciencelessons.com
Includes all lessons relevant to 3.4.6 and 3.4.7 Biodiversity on the AQA A-level Biology specificaiton with the following lessons included for the full Unit of work:
Species and taxonomy
Binomial classification
Phylogenetic relationships and genetic diversity between species
Species diversity Index
Investigating Diversity
Revision lesson focussing on exam technique for sampling questions and application to many different examples
Exam question packs to accompany lessons
Biology - Biodiversity presentation, covering definitions for Biodiversity, Species, Communities, Niche, Ecosystem and Habitat, with examples. Also covers the unqiue aspects of an Ecosystem. Includes videos, tasks and exam questions.
Suitable for KS4.
Lesson Objective:
Prior Knowledge: The world’s wide ranging variety of biomes and biodiversity.
L/O 1: Where are mangroves found in the world?
L/O 2: Why are mangroves important/special?
L/O 2: What are the main threats to mangroves?
CHALLENGE: A’ Level Q: ‘Assess the relative importance of global and local threats on one
named global ecosystem’
An impact of climate change - focus on biodiversity
Starter - definition of words. challenge included
Green pen - add to answers
Point left/ right for correct answers (AFL)
Students read intentions
Students read the maps (write a sentence) - sentence starter on whiteboard
Students read endangered line (understading - why?)
Mind map reasons - do a few examples and add on board first
Green pen add 3 more ideas
Key term conservation
Break down the word - bio / diversity = diverse stem (on white board)
Breakdown sustainable
Students to write down if they don’t know the words
Differentiated reading (3 versions to make it easier for teacher to split them)
Highlighting, writing ideas, challenges
Create a poster or fact file (depending on time)
success criterion - emphasise there is no marks for pretty work - to do it after the writing
challenge
e.g. my year 8s wrote half a page of information (mixed ability) for fact files
e.g. my year 9s wanted to do more drawings (mixed ability) so their work varied but they were really into it and would need more time.
Feedback to class (table or notes - they were much faster with just making notes) - chose 1 per animal - visualiser for recognition and rewards
Plenary - which one to save? Hands up voting.
Biodiversity
The worksheet consists of an information text. Based on this text, there are various exercises such as matching tasks, multiple-choice questions, open questions and true-false questions.
You receive the material and solutions in PDF format for easy printing and in docx format for individual customization.
Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 44 and 45 from Next Page Science KS3 Complete. Accompanying PowerPoint and word searches available for free from the website.
This exercise covers:
• What biodiversity is and its importance
• The concept of interdependence
• Food webs used to explain why greater biodiversity means species are more likely to survive
• How non-native species can disrupt biodiversity
• Gene banks as a way of storing genetic material for the future and why they are important
• An exercise on pros and cons of captive breeding
• Amazing WHAT? facts
10 Revision Challenges based on EdExcel A GCSE Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Management Unit. Image/Figure Analysis, Key Terms, True or False, IDEAL Analysis, Blockbuster. Great for independent revision or as a class challenge.
Resource made for an able year 8 group for distance learning. Designed to have everything the student needs in one document to make it easier to access.
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