GCSE Biology Topic 7: Food Chains and Trophic Levels
For mixed ability groups I suggest splitting this into two lessons. In this GCSE Biology Topic 7: Food Chains and Trophic Levels 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.
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)
- Comprehension questions
- Task boxes
- Handout sheet task
- Predator-Prey cycles exercise
- Order the steps (predator-prey cycles)
- 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 designed to support self-directed learning, homework and independent projects is available here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/food-chains-and-trophic-levels-gcse-biology-aqa-12636420
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Next Lesson: Environmental Change
In this lesson pupils will list some types of environmental change, explain why these changes happen and describe some of the effects.
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
