Quadrats

This lesson is designed for the New AQA Biology GCSE, specifically the Ecology scheme of work. It is aimed at a higher ability class but is easily differentiated downwards. This resource contains many of the PiXL think hard strategies to aid in students understanding and retention as well as to improve their application skills. The AQA required practical keywords are reffered to in this lesson.

This resource contains:
1 PPT which contains everything required for this lesson. There is no photocopying.

Starter – Quick quiz testing maths knowledge

Task1 – Students to estimate how many daisies are in a field using different methods to help them create a plan to help them count the number of organisms in the field. This is then compared to a detailed method and self or peer assessed.
Students to reduce methods into 25 words. This is a very interactive task which students love.

Task 2 – Students then to explain why one method may be more accurate than another.
Then students are to answer questions to help them discover what quadrats are used for best. Touches on some of the AQA required practical key words.

Task 3 – Students to use data on bluebells to calculate number of daisies and draw conclusions on ethical impact of the experiment. This can be peer or self assessed

Plenary – Students to evaluate a method for quadrats and are to improve it