Comparing Aerobic and Anaerobic respiration Outstanding Lesson AQA New 9-1 Bioenergetics

This is lesson 5 in the new Bioenergetics topic for AQA new 9-1 Trilogy and Biology specification. Written by an experienced teacher, writer and examiner, for teachers to teach a whole lesson at KS4.

This lesson contains all elements for an outstanding lesson, with maximum student involvement and minimal teacher consolidation (just the chalk and talk that is necessary). Teaches aerobic and anaerobic respiration and the comparison (plants, animals, yeast.)

Learning intention: To compare aerobic and anaerobic respiration

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Free lesson 1 Learning intention: To explain photosynthesis with an equation, naming reactant and products.
Paid for lesson 2 Learning intention: To describe how plants use the glucose they produce in photosynthesis.
Paid for lesson 3 Learning intention: To explain how the structure of a leaf is adapted for photosynthesis.
Paid for lesson 4 Learning intention: To interpret data about the rate of photosynthesis.
(This is lesson 5.)

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