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Year 10 / GCSE · Science

Biology: The Environment

Year 10 / GCSE learners practise ecosystems and biodiversity gcse biology.

The activities include Analyse the Impact of Humans on Biodiversity, Analyse the Impact of Humans on Biodiversity, Explain the Classification of Living Things, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, teach, practice, teaching. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Analyse the Impact of Humans on Biodiversity
  • Analyse the Impact of Humans on Biodiversity
  • Explain the Classification of Living Things
  • Explain the Structures and Roles of Carbohydrates, Proteins and Lipids
  • Explore the Impact of Humans on Biodiversity
  • Explore the Impact of Humans on Biodiversity
  • Investigate the Impact of Humans on Biodiversity
  • Understand Adaptations
  • Understand Energy Transfer in the Carbon Cycle
  • Understand the Classification of Living Things
  • Understand the Distribution of Organisms
  • Understand the Functions of Carbohydrates, Proteins and Lipids
  • Understand the Impact of Humans on Biodiversity
  • Understand the Signs of Environmental Pollution

Checked learning resources

  • Negative human interactions with ecosystems and impacts on biodiversity

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson defining biodiversity and explaining how land use, habitat destruction, deforestation, urbanisation, waste, pollution and greenhouse-gas release reduce biodiversity and ecosystem stability. The vid

  • Classification and reclassification: genetic evidence

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson comparing Linnaeus’s observable-characteristic system with later reclassification using microscopy, molecular evidence and DNA sequences, including Woese’s three-domain model.

  • Biological molecules

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson explaining that carbohydrates are sugar polymers, proteins are amino-acid polymers, lipids contain fatty acids and glycerol, and these molecules provide energy or build and repair cell structures.

  • Benefits and challenges of maintaining biodiversity

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson explaining the benefits of maintaining biodiversity and evaluating conservation approaches such as protected habitats, breeding programmes, field margins, hedgerows and sustainable resource use.

  • Material cycles: the carbon cycle

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson tracing carbon between the atmosphere, producers, consumers and decomposers through photosynthesis, feeding, respiration, decomposition and combustion.

  • Classification into kingdoms and domains: sub-cellular evidence

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Oak KS4 Biology lesson covering the Linnaean hierarchy, binomial names, kingdoms, sub-cellular evidence and the Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota domains introduced by Carl Woese.

  • KS3 Ecosystems and Interdependence Lesson 4: Human Impact on Biodiversity

    Twinkl · Teach · Account may be required

    This secondary lesson pack examines how human activities change biodiversity and uses activities and evidence to analyse environmental impacts.

  • KS4 Classification Sequencing Cards

    Twinkl · Practice · Account may be required

    These KS4 sequencing cards practise the hierarchy used to classify living things from domain and kingdom through to genus and species.