7D

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 * Unit 7D: Classified 3 weeks **
 * ** Topic 1: Putting things in order ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 107 || Resources ||
 * * Describe what variation is.
 * Recall where variation can be seen.
 * Identify relationships between features.
 * Explain what a species is.
 * || * Starter: Quick Quiz
 * Book p 49: read and answer all questions
 * Practical: observing differences
 * Practical: relationships and variation
 * Book p 50-51: read and answer all questions
 * Plenary: Thinking about species – AT presentation
 * HW: worksheets || * Exploring Science Year 7 text pages 49 - 51
 * Quick quiz 7Da
 * Worksheets 7Da(3) for relationships and variations
 * Equipment and materials for observing differences and relationships and variations
 * 789science.wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE biology || Assessment:
 * Quick check || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet 7Da (1) and (2)
 * Must: worksheet 7Da(7)
 * Worksheets 7Da (8) (most) or (9) and (10)(some) ||


 * ** Topic 2: It’s in your inheritance ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 111 || Resources ||
 * * Give examples of features that are inherited.
 * Explain what an environment is.
 * Give some examples of factors that can cause variation.
 * Identify examples of an environmental variation. || * Starter: Thinking about inherited and environmental variation
 * Book p 53: read and answer all questions
 * Constructing a family tree
 * How do we get our features?
 * Book p 54-55: read and answer all questions
 * Practical: bramble leaves
 * HW: worksheets || * Exploring Science Year 7 text pages 53 - 55
 * Worksheet 7Db (5) for family tree
 * Equipment and leaves for bramble leaves investigation
 * 789science.wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCE biology || Assessment:
 * Plenary: thinking about inherited and environmental variation – p114 || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet 7 DB (1) and (2)
 * Must: worksheet 7Db (7)
 * Worksheets 7Db (8) and (9) (most) or (10) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 3: Describing differences ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 115 || Resources ||
 * * Identify differences between organisms.
 * Identify similarities between organisms.
 * Explain how and why similar organisms are grouped together.
 * Give examples of some features that are useful for grouping organisms and some that are not. || * Starter: describing organisms
 * Book p 56-57: read and answer questions
 * Practical: observing differences
 * How a statement key works
 * HW: worksheets || * Exploring Science Year 7 text pages 56 and 57
 * Worksheets 7Dc (3) for observing differences
 * Equipment and materials for observing differences
 * 789science.wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE biology || Assessment:
 * Cloze exercise || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet 7Dc (1) and (2)
 * Must: worksheet 7Dc (8)
 * Worksheets 7Dc (9) (most) or (10) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 4: Classified information ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 118 || Resources ||
 * * State what a 'vertebrate’ is.
 * Give the names of the five groups of vertebrates.
 * List the features of mammals and birds.
 * List the features of amphibians,fish and reptiles. || * Starter: Finding pupils
 * Book p 58-59: read and answer all questions
 * Practical: drawing vertebrates
 * Practical vertebrate skeletons
 * Grouping vertebrates – AT
 * HW: worksheets || * Exploring Science Year 7 text pages 58 and 59
 * Equipment, materials, worksheet 7Dd (2) for drawing vertebrates
 * Quick check 7Dd
 * 789science.wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE biology || Assessment:
 * Plenary: Quick check || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet 7 Dd (1)
 * Must: worksheet 7Dd (4)
 * Worksheets 7Dd (5) (most) or (6) and (7) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 5: No backbone ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies – p 122 || Resources ||
 * * Explain the meaning of the word ‘invertebrate’.
 * List the names of the main invertebrate groups.
 * Give some features of the main invertebrate groups.
 * Explain that arthropods are divided in to other groups.
 * || * Starter: supermarket invertebrates
 * Book p 60 and 61: read and answer all questions
 * Practical: external skeletons
 * Book p 62: read and answer all questions
 * HW: revise for test || * Exploring Science Year 7 text pages 60 - 62
 * Equipment and materials (p124) for external skeletons practical
 * 789science.wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE biology || Assessment:
 * Plenary: concept map of unit
 * End of unit test || Support/extension:
 * Access: worksheet: 7De (1)
 * Must: worksheet 7De (5)
 * Worksheets 7De (6) and (7) (most) or (8) (some) ||