Lesson Plan: B2.6.01


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

Context and
Landmark
Assessment		 B2.6.01
Landmark Assessment: Progress Observation Opportunity
Remember to have high expectations
Lesson Title: Today we are learning about
What is pollution and what can be done about it?
Remember to check for PROGRESS
Focus on Knowledge, Skills and Understanding
Success Criteria: You will show your learning by...
  1. Rapid growth in the human population and an increase in the standard of living mean that increasingly more resources are used and more waste is produced. Unless waste and chemical materials are properly handled, more pollution will be caused.
  2. Pollution can occur: ? in water, from sewage, fertiliser or toxic chemicals ? in air, from smoke and acidic gases ? on land, from landfill and from toxic chemicals.
  3. Pollution kills plants and animals which can reduce biodiversity
  4. (WS) Evaluate the environmental implications of deforestation
  5. Students should be able to describe some of the biological consequences of global warming
  6. Levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere are increasing, and contribute to ?global warming?.
  7. (WS) Understand that the scientific consensus about global warming and climate change is based on systematic reviews of thousands of peer reviewed publications.
  8. (WS) Explain why evidence is uncertain or incomplete in a complex context
Think about how you can match the needs of ALL students
Keywords:
    Links: Literacy, Numeracy, SMSC, British values
    Memory Anchor:

    AFL/Key Questions:
    1. How can an increase in human population affect pollution?
      Rapid growth in the human population and an increase in the standard of living mean that increasingly more resources are used and more waste is produced. Unless waste and chemical materials are properly handled, more pollution will be caused.
    2. Where can pollution occur and what does it occur from?
      Pollution can occur: - in water, from sewage, fertiliser or toxic chemicals - in air, from smoke and acidic gases - on land, from landfill and from toxic chemicals.
    3. How can pollution affect biodiversity?
      Pollution kills plants and animals which can reduce biodiversity.
    4. What are the environmental implications of deforestation?
      Deforestation vastly affects the environment as well as reducing biodiversity. This occurs due to forest habitats being destroyed, soil erosion increasing, which causes barren land, flooding and land slides. Also atmospheric pollution is caused when forests are cleared by burning trees increasing global warming.
    5. What are the biological consequences of global warming?
      A rise of just a few degrees in world temperatures will have a dramatic impact on the climate: Global weather patterns will change, causing drought in some places and flooding in others. Melting of polar ice caps will raise sea levels, causing increased coastal erosion and flooding of low-lying land – including land where major cities lie.
    6. Why is global warming increasing?
      Levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere are increasing, and these contribute to global warming.
    7. What does the scientific consensus say about global warming and climate change?
      The scientific consensus about global warming and climate change is based on systematic reviews of thousands of peer reviewed publications.
    8. N/A
      N/A
    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