Food chains - lesson
Food chains and food webs. Complete lesson. KS3 Biology.
A complete, and ready to deliver, high quality KS3 Biology lesson from Foxteach.
(For USA - this lesson is for use between 6th to 8th grades).
This is a complete lesson from start to end, you do not need to spend many hours carefully planning, creating, resourcing and improving this lesson after each use. I have already spent those hours preparing this lesson for my students and improving it over many years. This is a very high quality lesson.
There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it.
Lesson objectives:
* Describe predators, prey, herbivores and carnivores within food chains.
* Understand the roles of producers and consumers.
* Construct food chains and food webs.
* Predict the effects on organisms when different food sources are removed.
This carefully crafted lesson is over 30 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below:
* Notes to help the teacher.
* Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives.
* Matching game - answers are provided.
* Worksheet (unique) - simply print for each student.
* Activity - create a garden food web - simply print for each student.
* Activity sheet - answers.
* Sequencing activity.
* Quiz with answers.
* Questions – all answers are provided.
* Peer marking / Self marking opportunities.
* Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’).
* Play ball opportunities.
* Video clip links- 2 off (carefully selected – this alone can save you 20+ minutes of searching).
* Paired work activities – all answers are provided.
* Homework
* Scientific Literacy activity.
* Plenary formative/summative assessment activity.
* Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt.
* Extension activities – just in case additional activities are required.
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