Respiration - Fully Resourced Lesson Plus Save the Cat Escape Room KS3

A comprehensive and enjoyable introduction to respiration including an explanation of the difference between respiration and breathing plus an innovative, enjoyable and challenging escape room lesson. Students have to work their way through the clues to find the code to a combination lock on the school exam paper store in which the school cat has been accidentally locked in the stationery store.

What’s Covered

• Breathing is movement of air in and out of the lungs.
• Respiration is the release of energy from glucose.
• Aerobic respiration uses oxygen to release energy from glucose.
• Anaerobic respiration does not use oxygen to release energy from glucose and produces lactic acid which causes muscle cramps.
• Anaerobic respiration creates oxygen debt which must be cleared using oxygen and is why breathing rate does not return to normal immediately vigorous activity ceases.
• Yeast is a unicellular fungus that undergoes fermentation.
• Word equations for aerobic respiration and fermentation.
• Conditions necessary for fermentation.

What’s Included

Lesson

• Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
• Answer/mark scheme PowerPoint
• Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
• Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
• Foldable
• Cut and stick activity.
• Worksheet to support the PowerPoint
• Fact sheet
• Homework plus answers
• Fact share worksheet
• Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
• Exit Ticket
• Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources

Escape Room

• PowerPoint – scene setting and instructions (sound effects and built-in timer);
• crossword;
• word search;
• dominoes activity;
• worksheet;
• code breaker sheet;
• answer keys;
• lesson plan.

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