KS3 Exercise & Respiration Lesson

This engaging lesson is all about anaerobic respiration & exercise. If you are looking for a complete lesson plan, with no prep to do apart from printing some worksheets out, then this is a perfect lesson for you! Even better, this is lesson one in a whole unit of lessons that you can mix and match, buying what you want or make a saving by purchasing the complete unit as a bundle.

In this complete lesson, students will learn:

• What is the meaning of anaerobic respiration.
• What the anaerobic respiration equation is.
• What the products of anaerobic respiration are in animals.
• What are the impacts of exercise on respiration and how they are linked.
• How to answer long answer questions about anaerobic respiration.

The lesson itself includes the following activities:

• A 6 question ‘beat the grid’ activity, designed as a retrieval activity to get students thinking about cell structure at the start of the lesson.
• A literacy task about respiration and exercise.
• Questions linked to the literacy task.
• A long answer question activity - including a modelled answer and a second question for students to answer independently.
• A review activity.

The resources includes:

• A PPT presentation (10 slides)
• 3 different activities that are referenced in the PPT.
• A link to the Google Drive version of the resource if you prefer to use Google Slides.

You can find lesson one in this unit, which covers an introduction to respiration and includes the keyword list for this topic by clicking on the link below:

Lesson 1: Introduction to Respiration.

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