Starter – Show students the pictures of the animals adapted for their environment.
Main activity – Look at the key points needed to answer a question about selection with two example questions
Plenary – Ten word summaries of stabilising and directional stability
This lesson students would have had an assessment feedback which highlights their strong and weak command words. This lesson uses HIV content to allow them to address this
Pre reading completed before the lesson.
Students have a RNA sheet to fill in as they enter to check their knowledge.
Students then play Splat to check keyword knowledge
Students then work in groups to achieve 100% on the 6 exam questions (approx 40 marks)
Finish off with a Kahoot online quiz.
Students complete their notes using the flipped worksheet to guide them.
Instructions in the PowerPoint to guide you to deliver this lesson. Covers 2 topics in the book, but covered in one lesson.
Support and extension materials throughout.
Starter - Looking at some questions addressing the previous lessons content
Main - Intro to content then a market place activity. All instructions and minimum requirements are included, you just need to provide the materials for them to find the information. Textbooks will have everything, but you could add websites too.
Plenary - Exam question with markscheme
Revision sheets for Unit 2 of the Biology AQA GCSE course. Covering:
B10 - The Human Nervous System
B11 - Hormonal Coordination
B12 - Homeostasis in Action (GCSE Biology Only)
B13 - Reproduction
B14 - Variation and Evolution
B15 - Genetics and Evolution
B16 - Adaptations, Interdependence and Competition
B17 - Organising an Ecosystem
B18 - Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Starter - Cut and stick on what you already know (worksheet is at the back of the powerpoint)
Main - Go through all the organs, and what they do. Start to compare the functions of the nervous system and the endocrine system
Plenary - 5 mark compare question
All answers are included in the powerpoint
Starts by introducing the difference between a conscious and a reflex response, students have several activities to complete on a worksheet (all answers are on the slides) and then finishing with how to answer a compare question, and then one for the students to complete.
There is also an optional points to prove task which could be set as pre-reading, homework, or cover.
Starter - Pupils exploring the blind spot
Main - Labelling of the eye, discussion of what happens to the pupil in light and dark, then exploring how it does that. Dissection of the eye.
Plenary - Levelled exam questions with markscheme