GCSE Biology Topic 6: Fossils
In this GCSE Biology Topic 6: Fossils lesson, students will describe three ways in which fossils can form. They will explain how fossils provide evidence for how life on Earth developed. 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)
- Task boxes
- Comprehension questions
- Discussion exercise
- Order the steps
- Handout sheet task
- 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 lesson is fully self-explanatory and can be delivered without specialist knowledge. It assumes that the previous content from topic 6 has been introduced but not necessarily mastered. 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/fossils-and-classification-slides-and-worksheet-gcse-biology-aqa-12634123
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Next Lesson: Speciation
In this lesson, students will state what speciation is, explain why speciation happens and describe the work of Alfred Wallace.
Lessons for Key Stage 4 GCSE Biology Topic 6 Inheritance, Variation and Evolution
- DNA and Protein Synthesis
- Mutation
- Sexual Reproduction
- Asexual Reproduction
- X and Y Chromosomes
- Genetic Diagrams
- Inherited Disorders
- Gregor Mendel
- Variation
- Evolution
- Selective Breeding
- Genetic Engineering
- Cloning
- Fossils
- Speciation
- Classification and Evolutionary Trees
- Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
