This engaging lesson uses the example of resistant bacteria to describe the principles of natural selection in the evolution of populations. The PowerPoint and accompanying resources have been designed to cover the second part of specification point 4.4 of the AQA A-level Biology specification and also introduces adaptations so that students are prepared for this topic in the upcoming lessons.
President Trump’s error ridden speech about antibiotics is used at the beginning of the lesson to remind students that this is a treatment for bacterial infections and not viruses as he stated. Moving forwards, 2 quick quiz competitions are used to introduce MRSA and then to get the students to recognise that they can use this abbreviation to remind them to use mutation, reproduce, selection (and survive) and allele in their descriptions of evolution through natural selection. The main task of the lesson challenges the students to form a description that explains how this strain of bacteria developed resistance to methicillin to enable them to see the principles of natural selection. This can then be used when describing how the anatomy of the modern-day giraffe has evolved over time. The final part of the lesson introduces adaptations and convergent evolution and also links to the need for modern classification techniques.
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