KS3 - Food chains lesson

A full 1 hour lesson on food chains designed for a higher ability year 7 class.
This could be taught to any KS3 class, of any ability, with minor tweaks.

This lesson contains:

• A 5-in-5 retrieval style starter
• An embedded video clip from Zootopia
• A retrieval practice from primary school - matching key terms e.g. predator/prey to their definitions
• A directed student discussion on food chains
• Direct instruction slides on food chains
• Checkpoints
• Student independent tasks writing simple food chains
• Direct instruction on trophic levels
• A true or false quiz on food chains and trophic levels
• An independent task with a printable worksheet - drawing a food chain and naming the trophic levels
• A whiteboard quiz
• A written plenary task