GCSE Biology Topic 7: Abiotic and Biotic Factors
In this GCSE Biology Topic 7: Abiotic and Biotic Factors lesson, pupils will explain the difference between abiotic and biotic factors, give some examples of how these factors may change and explain the consequences if they do.
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
- Order the steps
- Biotic or Abiotic
- Comprehension questions
- Numeracy task
- 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. Discussion/extension answers are in the ppt notes.
A supplementary resource
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Next Lesson: Food Webs and Trophic Levels
For mixed ability groups I suggest splitting this into two lessons. In this lesson pupils will use key vocabulary to describe food chains, explain predator prey cycles and describe the knock-on effects of changing one population of organisms in a food web.
Lessons for Key Stage 4 GCSE Biology Topic 7 Ecology
- Competition
- Abiotic and Biotic Factors
- Food Chains and Trophic Levels
- Environmental Change
- Quadrats Practical Revision
- Water Cycle
- Carbon Cycle
- Decay and Biogas
- Global Warming
- Deforestation and Land Use
- Protecting Ecosystems
- Pyramids of Biomass and Biomass Transfer
- Food Security and Farming
- Biotechnology
