AQA GCSE - Organisation in ecosystems

A full 1-hour lesson resource designed for a mixed ability year 9 class studying the AQA GCSE Biology topic “Ecosystems”.
This lesson focuses on levels of organisation in an ecosystem.
This resource contains:

• A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
• A turn and talk task, with answer slide
• Introduction slides on levels of organisation (dual coding, reduced cognitive load)
• Checkpoints - Short written tasks in book to maintain engagement
• Hand signal quizzes to check understanding (with answer slides)
• Written task - matching key vocab to definitions (with answer slides)
• Class discussion - link to levels of organisation in an organism
• Embedded YouTube video from Amoeba sisters
• Whiteboard quiz, with answer slides
• Written plenary task