Lesson Plan: B2.5.03


LESSON PLAN
Teacher Subject Period Date Year Ability LSA/Other Support
Science

Context and
Landmark
Assessment		 B2.5.03
Landmark Assessment: Progress Observation Opportunity
Remember to have high expectations
Lesson Title: Today we are learning about
How are organisms adapted to survive?
Remember to check for PROGRESS
Focus on Knowledge, Skills and Understanding
Success Criteria: You will show your learning by...
  1. Students should be able to, when provided with appropriate information suggest how organisms are adapted to the conditions in which they live.
  2. Students should be able to explain how organisms are adapted to live in their natural environment, given appropriate information.
  3. Organisms have features (adaptations) that enable them to survive in the conditions in which they normally live. These adaptations may be structural, behavioural or functional
  4. Some organisms live in environments that are very extreme, such as at high temperature, pressure, or salt concentration. These organisms are called extremophiles.
  5. Bacteria living in deep sea vents are extremophiles.
Think about how you can match the needs of ALL students
Keywords:
    Links: Literacy, Numeracy, SMSC, British values
    Memory Anchor:

    AFL/Key Questions:
    1. What is an adaptation?
      A characteristic about a species that allows it to be suited to the environment it lives.
    2. How are organisms adapted to live in their natural environment?
      Organisms become adapted to their natural environment by evolution through natural selection.
    3. What are the three types of adaptations organisms can have to survive in the conditions that they live?
      Adaptations may be structural, behavioural or functional
    4. What is an extremophile?
      Organisms live in environments that are very extreme, such as high temperature, pressure, or salt concentration
    5. What type of microbe lives in deep sea vents?
      Bacteria live in deep sea vents.
    Identify questions for high, middle, low and identify questioning techniques- Challenge questions

    Learning Phases/Episodes
    Think about how you can match the needs of ALL students
    Differentiation: AGT, SEND, LLL, Disadvantaged
    Remember to check for PROGRESS
    Starter Activity Differentiation and Challenge question/task
    • Students to copy and complete the keywords.
    • Teacher reveals missing letters; Students correct mistakes;
    • Discuss the scientific meanings of the words.
    • Students to write down the definitions of the most important / new keywords.
    • Discuss the 'Memory Anchor'.
      • What does it show?
      • How does it relate to the what we are learning about today (title)?
    Think about PACE – Develop, consolidate and deepen knowledge, skills and understanding
    Teacher or Student lead? Differentiation and Challenge question/task
    Progress Check Extension
    Remember to give time to apply knowledge, skills and understanding
    Teacher or Student lead? Differentiation and Challenge question/task
    Progress Check Extension

    Teacher or Student lead? Differentiation and Challenge question/task
    Progress Check Extension

    Teacher or Student lead? Differentiation and Challenge question/task
    Progress Check Extension


    Plenary Differentiation and Challenge question/task
    • Students to answer the 'Key Questions' with learning partners.
    Progress Check
    • Teacher to reveal and discuss the answers to the questions.
    		 Extension
    • What have learnt about the 'Big Ideas' today?

    Homework Differentiation and Challenge question/task