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- 1Slide 1Title: Photosynthesis, lesson 1 of 6, a big question about where a tree’s mass comes from, the title-and-date instruction and the labelled leaf diagram
- 2Slide 2Do now and objectives: five timed retrieval questions from earlier topics, and three objectives led by their exam command words
- 3Slide 3Key words: chlorophyll, chloroplast, stomata, endothermic and glucose, each with a one-line definition and a picture, beside the Greek and Latin roots that make them up
- 4Slide 4The big question, answered by history: van Helmont’s willow gained 74 kg in five years while its soil lost 57 g, with a think-pair-share on what he missed
- 5Slide 5The key idea: the word equation, with light and chlorophyll over the arrow, the symbols CO₂, H₂O, C₆H₁₂O₆ and O₂, reactants and products, and the balanced equation as a stretch
- 6Slide 6Inside the leaf: a cross-section drawing labelled from the waxy cuticle to the stomata, with the palisade layer, chloroplasts, air spaces, guard cells and xylem
- 7Slide 7Where the reactants come from: carbon dioxide in through the stomata and water up from the roots, on a plant diagram, and why closed stomata slow photosynthesis
- 8Slide 8Why it is endothermic: an energy diagram showing light energy transferred to the products, endothermic against exothermic, and a check question
- 9Slide 9What plants do with glucose, as SCARF: starch for storage, cellulose for cell walls, amino acids with nitrate ions, respiration, and fats and oils
- 10Slide 10Worked example (I do): the rate of photosynthesis from 45 bubbles in 3 minutes, written as formula, substitution and answer with units, beside the apparatus
- 11Slide 11Practice (we do, you do): three rate questions getting harder, the last one Higher tier with the inverse square law
- 12Slide 12Activity: a class demonstration of pondweed under a lamp at 10, 20, 30 and 40 cm, with a prediction to write first, a results table to copy and the fair-test variables
- 13Slide 13Exit quiz: five multiple-choice questions, peer marking in green pen and a challenge question for early finishers
- 14Slide 14Recap and homework: the equation, three takeaways, the big question answered, homework due in a week and next lesson
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Science Lesson is a 14-slide deck for one secondary-school science lesson, ready to put on the board. The example teaches photosynthesis to a Year 10 biology class: a big question and a timed do-now, key words with their roots, the word equation, the leaf in cross-section, where the reactants come from, why the reaction is endothermic and what plants do with glucose. Then come a worked example, practice that gets harder, a pondweed demonstration, an exit quiz and a recap with homework. It is set large in a typeface made for low-vision readers, and each substance keeps its colour on every slide.
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