Y7 Activate - Specialised animal cells

This lesson is designed for a year 7 class studying the KS3 Activate curriculum.
This lesson is focused on specialised animal cells.

From this lesson, students should be able to:

• Identify four specialised animal cells from diagrams (red blood cell, sperm cell, egg cell, nerve cell)
• Describe the function of four specialised animal cells (red blood cell, sperm cell, egg cell, nerve cell)
• Describe the basic adaptations of two specialised animal cells, and link their adaptations to their functions (red blood cell and sperm cell)

All of my lesson resources contain:

• A 5-in-5 retrieval-style starter
• An interesting lesson hook, careers link, or retrieval practice to start the lesson
• Teacher input slides with dual coding and reduced cognitive load
• Teacher models
• Regular ‘check for understanding’ slides, such as hand signals quizzes
• Regular student independent practice slides, with optional scaffolds, challenges and answer slides
• A plenary task