KS3 AQA Drawing Plant and Animal Cells

Cells - Biological Drawing (AQA KS3).
Flipped Learning Lesson for students aged 11-14.
This was developed to ground good biological drawing skills in students in KS3. The reason I made this lesson is that I also teach Art and Technology I know that in these subjects students are taught completely different drawing skills to those used in science. I realised that there could be confusion when students come to draw in science which is why I created this lesson. The lesson worked really well.

I made a video for YouTube showing students how to draw biological drawings. Students then watched this for home study before the lesson. This worked very well indeed. The lesson starter follows up and builds on this. Students then learn the differences between plant and animal cells and practice drawing them using simple images onscreen before they draw from a microscope. This gets them into good practice from the start. The guidance on biological drawing is based on the AQA A-level guidance.

The lesson has been designed so that Science Teachers that are teaching out of their Science specialism can easily teach this. The notes below the slides give lots of information for these teachers.

Lesson Objectives:

• To observe and identify the difference between plant and animal cells.
• To draw and label an animal cell and a plant cell.

Resources

• Flipped learning video on how to do biological drawings. The link is in the notes on resources.
• Original PowerPoint for this video
• Lesson PowerPoint, with clear notes on each slide. A light and dark version of this presentation is provided.
• Success criteria for biological drawing
• A ‘really bad drawing’ to critique as a starter
• Worksheet on plant and animal cells
• Study Stack resources (link provided) for plenary or revision use.
• Notes on the resources.