GCSE Biology Topic 6: Gregor Mendel

In this GCSE Biology Topic 6: Gregor Mendel lesson, students will describe the work Mendel, state the three conclusions Mendel came to and explain why it took time for people to understand Mendel’s work.

The slides include extension questions, and students can choose from a variety of different tasks.

This lesson includes:

Title slide with learning objectives
A starter activity
Group reading (literacy)
Handout sheet task with extension
Task boxes
Discussion exercise
Comprehension questions
Order the steps to show the timeline of later discoveries
Includes assessment for learning (AFL). Answer slides included for self-assessment
Suitable for remote, online, distance learning
Suitable for supply teaching and home learning. This activity is straightforward and requires no specialist expertise. It does assume that students have some prior familiarity with genetic diagrams and the terminology of genetics (see Genetic Diagrams Lesson). Discussion/extension answers are in the ppt notes.

A supplementary resource designed to support self-directed learning, homework and independent projects is available here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-work-of-mendel-supplementary-slides-and-worksheet-gcse-biology-aqa-12974527

Next Lesson: Variation

This lesson has a heavy literacy focus and provides opportunities to practice using the keywords from AQA GCSE Biology Topic 6 in context. In this lesson, students will state what is meant by variation in a species, describe how variation arises in a population and decide whether example characteristics vary due to genes, environment or both.