AQA GCSE Biology - Communities and Interdependence

A full 1-hour lesson designed for a mixed ability year 9 class studying the AQA GCSE Biology topic “Ecosystems”.
This lesson covers interdependence in communities, stable communities and competition.
This full 1-hour lesson resource contains:

• A 5-in-5 retrieval style starter
• An embedded YouTube video as a lesson hook
• Introduction slides on interdependence (reduced cognitive load, dual coding)
• Teacher model slides on interdependence in food webs
• A ‘thumbs up, thumbs down’ hand signals quiz, with answers
• An exam question for students to practice, with answer slides
• Introduction slides on competition, with pictures
• An embedded YouTube video on competition in plants
• A written recall task with answer slides on competition
• A guided ‘turn and talk’
• A written exam question on competition, with answer slides
• Introduction slides on stable communities
• Exam question with answer slides on stable communities
• Plenary - written exam question