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Biology - Smoking
Lesson Aimed at KS3 Smoking.
Lesson plan included (without student details).
PowerPoint includes all printable resources.
Structure:
Settler
Starter
"Become an expert" task with explanation of task
Questions to answer as a group or individually to suit the class
Plenary to show progress
Cells - series of lesson worksheets
Set of 6 lessons worth of worksheets to compliment the topic of cells.
Could be used as homework or within lessons.
Includes a 17 page document with tasks and worksheets to follow the 6 lessons below including a homework investigation into diffusion of squash:
1. Living vs non-living
LO1: How can we class something as living?
LO2: Describe what is involved in each of the 7 components or life (MRS NERG)
2. Animal vs plant
LO1: State the function of the parts of a cell (e.g. nucleus controls the cell)
LO2: Identify similarities and differences between animal and plant cells
3. Specialised cells
LO1: Be able to identify 5 specialised cells and state their roles
4. Simple cells
Label an Amoeba and Euglena
5. Cells tissues and organs
LO1: Define a tissue and an organ
LO2: Give at least one example of a specialised cell, tissue, organ, organ system and organism
6. Diffusion
LO1: Define diffusion
LO2: Explain how cells use diffusion to move substances in and out.
Flipped learning homework template
The first sheet has space for 10 questions based on the lesson just taught on the left and space for summaries of the key ideas on the right.
The second sheet (the back sheet if copied front to back) has space on the left to write a link to a YouTube video and space for notes with suggested styles of note taking at the bottom. The same is laid out on the right for a website link.
My A-Level students really liked the structure for keeping up to date with notes and preparation for the next lesson but could be used or adapted for KS3 and KS4.
It can be taken in the following lesson and/or self assessed as the starter giving you a chance to go around and check completion.
Conduction
Fully planned lesson including:
- Settler question
- Starter diagram to label (solid, liquid, gas)
- Animation
- Ball and hoop demonstration (with levelled answers to question)
- Lighting a match using a metal bar held in a retort stand and heated with Bunsen (with levelled answers to question)
- Revisit settler question and learning objectives
- Extra resources (word match etc.) for extension
Reflection
Fully planned lesson including:
- Quick quiz
- Answers
- Labelled diagram of ear
- Long answer question with support relating to sound (if previously taught)
- Detailed method for reflection practical
- Example table to draw or print
- Other resources
KS3 and KS4 generic assessment template
Can use for any subject to structure an assessment for KS3 (A5) or KS4 (A4).
Fill out the main box in the middle with a variety of questions (5 marks for KS3 and 10 marks for KS4 - can change) and get students to identify whether it is peer, self or teacher assessed.
Space for target, GRAFT, DIRT at bottom.
Flipped HW - light dependent reactions of photosynthesis
First side:
10 short answer questions about the light dependent reactions of photosynthesis.
Space to write notes from the lessson.
Second side:
Links to YouTube video and website for further research into the next lesson (light independent reactions of photosynthesis) with space to make notes.
Useful for a regular and structured homework ensuring review and research is done from lesson to lesson.
My pupils really like the routine and know exactly what to do - it is manageable too but i tell them its a minimum.
Revision and essay guidance for AS Biology topic - Pathogens and Immunity
Lesson structure at the beginning to explain what will be covered:
- Pose, pause, pounce, bounce.
- Review of presentations (could edit this to suit a previous piece of work)
- Double blind trials
- RAG the specification (included)
- Essay title, structure for planning and detailed mark scheme and feedback form included on presentation.
KS3 - Differentiated Respirtatory System
Lesson on the respiratory system with two differentiated main tasks.
Word search starter with task to write down words they don’t understand.
Link to great animation website focused on the alveoli for discussion.
Task 1: Creating a resource about alveoli split into two options. One lower on Blooms, one requiring them to use a text book (you have to provide this…) or website.
Extension for task at bottom of slide.
True / False task with answers.
Task 2: Journey of an oxygen molecule. Two options again, one listing and labeling. The other more descriptive and creative.
Another extension at bottom of slide.
Plenary: 3.2.1. Task (list three… Name two… What one… etc.) focused on lesson.
Emoji assessment task
Student select, draw and describe (with possible sentence starters and endings) which emoji sums up how they feel about the task they have just completed.
Can be added onto any task and adapted to include add any criteria.
Printable version on separate slide for slower writers / lower abilities.
Massive range of activities for any lesson
PowerPoint full of 37 activities that include starters, mains and plenaries / mini plenaries that can be adapted for any lesson or situation. First slide gives general instructions.
Styles include:
Assessment based
Creative
Discussion
Independent
Settling
Positive
Many more
Each slide is laid out the same for consistency but is very personalisable.
If used regularly, the students get used to the style of an activity and can use their brains for the actual task, not for understanding what to do in it.
Photosynthesis - The Light Dependent Reactions (A-Level Biology)
Used as an observed lesson (so have included lesson plan without student details).
I used repetition in small stages to gradually build the picture of the thylakoid membrane and the students seemed very confident at the end. Use the knowledge based questions to check basic understanding before going on to the longer answer questions.
PowerPoint
Lesson Plan
Knowledge based questions
Longer answer questions
Rates of reaction - task
Self contained task which:
Tests knowledge of the required practicals
Graph drawing skills (with self assessable mark scheme)
Descriptions, explanations and extension questions
All tasks have marking criteria with scores
Three slides that are easy to print off and write on
Fourth slide includes all answers to mark-able features.
Convection
Fully planned lesson including:
- Settler: Link to lava lamp clip
- Starter: question re: conduction with mark scheme on next slide
- Think: Question with vowels removed to get pupils to come up with the question: "how does a radiator work?"
- Link: Great video introducing idea of plate tectonics to link to real world
- Various questions
- Convection tube demo (or link to video of one)
- Match sentence to position on convection tube diagram (can print or write on own)
- Linked to radiator and other questions to sum depending on time
- Come back to learning objectives
Revision sheet for KS3 Solar system topic
PowerPoint slide that could be printed A3 for a KS3 class to use when revising the solar system topic. Includes:
Compass points
Satellites
Comets
Data handling task
Identifying solar system from image
Time of day
Gravity
Evaporation - practical
Fully planned lesson including:
- Settler question.
- Starter diagram of solids, liquids, gases.
- Guiding questions to discover idea of how sweating cools the skin
- Fill the blanks task
- Method (with equipment list) for simple but always successful practical (15-20min)
- Blank table for support
- Guiding questions to do while performing practical.
- Graph mark scheme.
- Graded explanations
- Further resources if needed
Refraction
Fully planned lesson including:
- Quick quiz
- Answers
- Optical illusions to get pupils thinking about light rays and the path of light
- Theory of refraction and fill in the blanks
- Method (which needs demonstrating) for refraction using a glass / Perspex block
- True false plenary
Ideal cover lesson for distance-time and velocity-time graphs
Can use as a stand alone lesson or can set as cover if the cover teacher has access to a computer and projector.
Includes:
Cover form / Lesson plan
PowerPoint presentation
Worksheet
Printables
Starter: Odd one out
Rules for DT and VT graphs
Answers
Main task explained
4 tables to draw as either DT or VT graphs and tasks to do (calculate gradient etc.)
Worksheet
Review rules
Plenary key terms
Book check sheet for students books - tight on time?
Speed up book checks and make them efficient by doing them in class.
1.Print off the small versions.
2 Take around the classroom while pupils are working.
3. Fill them in and stick into books.
4. Write into mark book as you go to note down effort.
Do every few weeks to keep on top of book checking is time is tight (always).
A-Level Biology - All HW for Mass transport topic - Flipped style
Good structure for flipped learning, especially for beginners and the kids really liked the consistency, not just “research the next lesson”.
Set of linking homeworks for the mass transport topic in the AQA A-Level Biology course.
Structure is 10 short answer questions on a lesson on the left. Then a suggested YouTube link (and description) and Website link (and description) for further research about the next lesson.
Includes:
Two blank templates to use for the future
The first name is what the questions are about and the second is what the research is on:
Tissue fluid / Haemoglobin
Haemoglobin / Oxygen dissociation curves
Oxygen dissociation curves / Xylem and Phloem
Xylem and Phloem / Mass Flow Hypothesis
Mass Flow Hypothesis / Transpiration
Transpiration / Limiting water loss