The Cheadle Academy

KS3 Long Term Overview

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Y7

Enquiry process

Circuits

Organisms

Organisms

Reactions

Forces

Forces

Ecosystems

Energy

Energy

Genes

Matter

Matter

Waves

Waves

Earth

Y8

Organisms

Energy

Waves

Reactions

Ecosystems

Universe

Forces

Genes

Genes

Metals and Non-Metals

Year 9

Cell structure

Energy Resources

Energy Transfers by heat

Separation

Transport

Conservation and dissipation

Electricity in the home

Atomic structure

Electricity in the home

Atomic structure

Organisation and digestion

Organisation and digestion

Periodic table

Cell division

Electrical circuits

Circulation and respiratory system

Cell division

Chemical Calculations

Bonding

Circulation and respiratory system

Bonding

Year 10

Communicable disease

Molecules and matter

Chemical changes

Non-communicable disease

Preventing disease

Electrolysis

Radioactivity

Energy changes

Energy changes

Photosynthesis and plants

Forces in balance

Forces in balance

Motion

Rates and equilibrium

Nervous system

Rates and equilibrium

Endocrine system

Force and motion

Endocrine system

Forces and motion

Oil and fuels

Year 11

Adaptations

Electromagnetic waves

Chemical analysis

Wave properties

Atomosphere

Atmosphere

Biodiversity

Reproduction

Electromagnetism

Resources

Resources

Reproduction

Genetics

Variation

Resources

Reproduction

Genetics

Variation

Ecosystems

Year 7 – Medium Term Overview Autumn 1

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring Term 1

Spring 2

How Science Works

Electromagnets

Organisms

Reactions

Forces

Ecosystems

Energy

KQFL:  How do we construct a scientifically valid investigation?

KQLF

Compare the voltage drop across resistors connected in series in a circuit.

KQLF

Explore how the skeletal system and muscular system in a chicken wing work together to cause movement.

KQFL:   Use experimental results to suggest an order of reactivity of various metals.

KQFL:  Investigate variables that affect the speed of a toy car rolling down a slope.

KQFL:  Use a model to investigate the impact of changes in a population of one organism on others in the ecosystem.

KQFL Compare the running costs of fluorescent and filament light bulbs.

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·   How to ask Scientific questions.

·   How to plan a scientific investigation.

·   How to collect, record and present data.

·   How to analyse patterns in data

·    How to evaluate data and methodology..

·   Potential difference

·   Resistance

·   Series and parallel circuits

·   Current

·   Charge and static.

·   Levels of organisation

·   The skeleton

·   Joints

·   Muscles

·   Observing cells

·   Plant and animal cells

·   Specialised cells

·   Movement of substances.

·   Uni-cellular organisms

·   Chemical reactions

·   Acids and alkalis

·   Indicators and pH

·   Acid strength

·   Neutralisation

·   Making salts

·   Elements

·   Chemical reactions of metals and non-metals

·   Metals and acids

·   Metals and oxygen

·   Metals and water

·   Metal displacement reactions

·   Drawing force diagrams

·   Balanced and unbalanced forces

·   Speed

·   Distance-time graphs

·   Gravity

·   Food webs and chains

·   Disruptions to food webs and chains

·   Ecosystems

·   Competition

·   Flowers and pollination

·   Fertilisation and germination

·   Seed dispersal

·    Food and fuels

·    Energy resources

·    Energy and power

·    Energy transfers

·    Energy dissipation

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 7 –  Medium Term Overview 

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Spring Term 2

Summer Term 1

Summer Term 2

Genes

Matter

Waves

Earth

KQFL:   Graph data relating to variation and explain how it may lead to the survival of a species.

KQFL:  

Relate the features of the particle model to the properties of materials in different states.

KQFL:  Use ray diagrams to model how light passes through lenses and transparent materials.

KQFL:  Relate observations of changing day length to an appropriate model of the solar system.

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·    Variation

·    Continuous and discontinuous variation

·    Adapting to change

·    Natural selection

·    Charles Darwin

·    Extinction

·    Preserving biodiversity

·    Particle model

·    States of matter

·    Melting and freezing

·    Boiling

·    Condensing and sublimation

·    Diffusion

·    Gas pressure

·    Pure substances and mixtures

·    Solutions

·    Solubility

·    Filtration

·    Evaporation and distillation

·    Chromatography

·   Sound waves and speed

·   Loudness and amplitude

·   Frequency and pitch

·   The ear and hearing

·   Light

·   Reflection

·   Refraction

·   The eye and vision

·   Colour

·   The structure of the Earth

·   Sedimentary rocks

·   Igneous and metamorphic rocks

·   The rock cycle

·   Ceramics

·   The night sky

·   The solar system

·   The Earth

·   The Moon and changing ideas

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 8 –  Medium Term Overview

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1 and 2

Organisms

Energy

Waves

Reactions

Ecosystems

Earth

KQFL:   Evaluate how well a model represents key features of the digestive system.

KQFL:   Investigate how to prevent heat loss by conduction, convection and radiation.

KQFL:  Relate the impact of different types of waves on living cells to their frequency and the energy carried by the wave.

KQFL:  Investigate a phenomenon that relies on an exothermic or endothermic reaction.

KQFL:   Use data from investigating fermentation with yeast to explore respiration.

KQFL:   Predict the method used for extracting metal based on its position in the reactivity series.

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·   Gas exchange

·   Breathing

·   Drugs

·   Alcohol

·   Smoking

·   Nutrients

·   Food tests

·   Unhealthy diet

·   Digestive system

·   Bacteria and enzymes in digestion

·   Work, energy and machines

·   Energy and temperature

·   Conduction

·   Radiation and insulation

·   Sound waves, water waves and energy

·   Radiation and energy

·   Modelling waves

·       Atoms in chemical reactions

·       Combustion

·       Thermal decomposition

·       Conservation of mass

·       Exothermic and endothermic reactions

·       Energy level diagrams

·       Bond energies

·       Aerobic respiration

·       Anaerobic respiration

·       Biotechnology

·       Photosynthesis

·       Leaves

·       Investigating photosynthesis

·       Plant minerals

·        

·   Global warming

·   The Carbon cycle

·   Climate change

·   Extracting metals

·   Recycling

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 8 –  Medium Term Overview 

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Summer 1

Summer 2

Forces

Genes

Electromagnets

Metals and non-metals

KQFL:  Investigate how pressure from your foot onto the ground varies with different footwear.

KQFL Relate advice to pregnant women to ideas about transfer of substances to the embryo.

KQFL:  Investigate ways of varying the strength of an electromagnet.

KQFL Use experimental results to suggest an order of reactivity of various metals.

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·    Friction and drag

·    Squashing and stretching

·    Turning forces

·    Pressure in gases

·    Pressure in liquids

·    Stress on solids

·     

·    Adolescence

·    Reproductive systems

·    Fertilisation and implantation

·    Development of a foetus

·    The menstrual cycle

·    Inheritance

·    DNA

·    Genetics

·    Genetic modification

·   Magnets and magnetic fields

·   Electromagnets

·   Using electromagnets

·       Chemical reactions of metals and non-metals

·       Metals and acids

·       Metals and oxygen

·       Metals and water

·       Metal displacement reactions

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 9 –  Medium Term Overview

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Autumn 1

Cell structure

Energy resources

Energy transfers by heat

Energy

KQFL: Use a light microscope to draw a selection of plant and animal cells, including a magnification scale

KQFL:  Compare renewable and non-renewable energy resources

KQFL:   Determine the specific heat capacity of a metal block

KQFL:  Calculate Rf valuses in food colourings

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·       Microscopes

·       Animal and Plant Cells

·       Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells

·       Specialisation in animal cells

·       Specialisation in plant cells

·       Energy Demands

·       Energy from wind and water

·       Power from the Sun and the Earth

·       Energy and the Environment

·       Energy Transfer by conduction

·       Specific Heat Capacity

·       Heating and insulating buildings

·       Atoms

·       Separating Mixtures

·       Fraction al distillation

·        paper chromatography

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 9 –  Medium Term Overview 

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Autumn 2

Transport

Conservation and dissipation

Atomic structure

KQFL:  investigate the effect of a range of concentrations of alt or sugar solutions on the mass of plant tissues

KQFL:   Investigating thermal insulators

KQFL:  Use a model to show the structure of an atom

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·       Diffusion

·       Osmosis

·       Osmosis in plants

·       Active Transport

·       Changes in energy stores

·       Conservation of energy

·       Energy and Work

·       Gravitational potential energy stores

·       Kinetic energy and elastic energy stores

·       Energy dissipation

·       Energy and efficiency

·       History of the atom

·       Structure of the atom

·       Ions, atoms and isotopes

·       Electronic structure

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 9 –  Medium Term Overview Ctd

KS3 Science will build on the foundations laid down in KS2 Science. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Spring 1

Electricity in the home

Organisation and digestion

KQFL: Investigating resistance of wires and series and parallel circuits

KQFL: Use standard food tests to detect sugars, starch and proteins

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·       Alternating current

·       Cables and plugs

·       Electrical power and potential difference

·       Electrical currents and energy transfer

·       Appliances and efficiency

·       Tissues and organs

·       The human digestive system

·       The chemistry of food

·       Catalysts and enzymes

·       Factors affecting enzyme action

·       How the digestive system works

·       Making digestion efficient

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 9 –  Medium Term Overview

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Spring 2

Summer 1

Periodic table

Cell division

Electrical circuits

Chemical calculations

KQFL:  Compare the original and current periodic tables

KQFL:  Evaluate the use of stem cells

KQFL:   Investigate electrical components and their potential difference-current relationships

KQFL:  Use titration to investigate reacting volumes

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·       The development of the periodic table

·       Electronic structures and the periodic table

·       Group 1

·       Group 7

·       Explaining trends

·       Cell division

·       Growth and division

·       Stem cells

·       Ethics of stem cells

·       Current and charge

·       Potential difference and resistance

·       Component characteristics

·       Series circuits

·       Parallel circuits

·        

·       Relative masses and moles

·       Equations and calculations

·       From masses to balanced equations

·       Expressing concentrations

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 9 –  Medium Term Overview

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Summer 2

Bonding

Circulation and respiratory system

KQFL:  Compare the different types of bonding

KQFL:  Using dissection techniques to identify the structures of the heart

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·       States of matter

·       Atoms into ions

·       Ionic bonding

·       Giant ionic structures

·       Covalent bonding

·       Structure of simple molecules

·       Giant covalent structures

·       Fullerenes and graphene

·       Bonding in metals

·       Giant metallic structures

·       The blood

·       Blood vessels

·       The heart

·       Breathing and gas exchange

·        

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 10 –  Medium Term Overview

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Autumn 1

Communicable diseases

Molecules and matter

Chemical changes

Non-communicable diseases

KQFL:  Compare the diseases caused by different pathogens

KQFL:  Calculating densities of regular and irregular objects

KQFL:   Prepare a salt from and insoluble metal carbonate or oxide

KQFL:  evaluate the effect of lifestyle on non-communicable diseases

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·       Health and disease

·       Pathogens and disease

·       Preventing infections

·       Viral diseases

·       Bacterial diseases

·       Diseases caused by fungi and protists

·       Human defence responses

·       Density

·       States of matter

·       Changes of state

·       Internal energy

·       Specific latent heat

·       Gas pressure and temperature

·       The reactivity series

·       Displacement reactions

·       Extracting metals

·       Salts from metals

·       Salts from insoluble bases

·       Making more salts

·       Neutralisation and the pH scale

·       Strong and weak acids

·       Non-communicable diseases

·       Cancer

·       Smoking and the risk of disease

·       Diet, exercise and disease

·       Alcohol and other carcinogens

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 10 –  Medium Term Overview 

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Autumn 2

Preventing disease

Electrolysis

Radioactivity

Respiration

KQFL:  Evaluate vaccinations

KQFL:  investigate the electrolysis of a solution

KQFL:   compare the different types of radiation

KQFL:  Compare aerobic and anaerobic respiration

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·       Vaccination

·       Antibiotics and painkillers

·       Discovering drugs

·       Developing drugs

·       Helping the heart

·       What is electrolysis

·       Changes at the electrodes

·       The extraction of aluminium

·       Electrolysis of aqueous solutions

·       Atoms and radiation

·       The discovery of the nucleus

·       Changes in the nucleus

·       Alpha, beta and gamma radiation

·       Activity and half life

·       Aerobic respiration

·       The response to exercise

·       Anaerobic respiration

·       Metabolism and the liver

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 10 –  Medium Term Overview 

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Spring 1

Photosynthesis and plants

Forces in balance

Energy changes

KQFL:  Investigate the effect of light intensity on the rate of photosynthesis

KQFL:  investigate the centre of mass for different objects

KQFL:   investigate temperature changes

KQFL:  

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·      Tissues and organs in plants

·      Transport systems in plants

·      Evaporation and transpiration

·      Vectors and scalars

·      Forces between objects

·      Resultant forces

·      Centre of mass

·      Exothermic and endothermic reactions

·      Using energy transfers from reactions

·      Reaction Profiles

·      Bond energy calculations

·        

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 10 –  Medium Term Overview 

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Spring 2

Motion

Rates and equilibrium

Nervous system

KQFL:  Investigate the relationship between force and acceleration

KQFL:  Investigate the effect of concentration on the rate of reaction

KQFL:   investigate the effect of a factor on human reaction time

KQFL:  

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·      Speed and distance time graphs

·      Velocity and acceleration

·      Velocity-time graphs

·      Analysing motion

·      Rates of reaction

·      Collision theory and surface area

·      The effect of temperature

·      The effect of concentration and pressure

·      The effect of catalysts

·      Reversible reactions

·      Dynamic equilibrium

·      Altering conditions

·      Principles of homeostasis

·      The structure and function of the nervous system

·      Reflex actions

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 10 –  Medium Term Overview 

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Summer 1

Endocrine system

Rates and equilibrium ctd

Force and motion

KQFL:  evaluate methods of artificially controlling fertility

KQFL:  

KQFL:   investigate the relationship between force and extension of a spirng

KQFL:  

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·       Principles of hormonal control

·       The control of blood glucose levels

·       Treating diabetes

·       The role of negative feedback

·       Human reproduction

·       Hormones and the menstrual cycle

·       The artificial control of fertility

·       Rates of reaction

·       Collision theory and surface area

·       The effect of temperature

·       The effect of concentration and pressure

·       The effect of catalysts

·       Reversible reactions

·       Dynamic equilibrium

·       Altering conditions

·      Forces and acceleration

·      Weight and terminal velocity

·      Forces and braking

·      Forces and elasticity

·        

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 10 –  Medium Term Overview 

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Summer 2

Endocrine system ctd

Oil and fuel

Force and motion ctd

KQFL:  

KQFL:  Describe the fractional distillation of oil

KQFL:   

KQFL:  

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·       Principles of hormonal control

·       The control of blood glucose levels

·       Treating diabetes

·       The role of negative feedback

·       Human reproduction

·       Hormones and the menstrual cycle

·       The artificial control of fertility

·       Hydrocarbons

·       Fractional distillation of oil

·       Burning hydrocarbon fuels

·       Cracking hydrocarbons

·      Forces and acceleration

·      Weight and terminal velocity

·      Forces and braking

·      Momentum

·      Forces and elasticity

·        

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 11 –  Medium Term Overview

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Autumn 1

Adaptations

Chemical analysis

Electromagnetic waves

Wave properties

KQFL:  Measure the population size of a common species in a habitat

KQFL:  Use chemical tests to identify unknown compounds

KQFL:   use a model to show the electromagnetic spectrum

KQFL:  investigate plane waves in a ripple tank and in a solid

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·       The importance of communities

·       Organisms and their environment

·       Distribution and abundance

·       Competition in animals

·       Competition in plants

·       Adapt and survive

·       Adaptations in animals

·       Adaptations in plants

·       Pure substances and mixtures

·       Analysing chromatograms

·       Testing for gases

·      The electromagnetic spectrum

·      Light, infrared, microwaves and radio waves

·      Communication

·      Ultra violet waves, X-rays and gamma rays

·      X-rays in medicine

·       The nature of waves

·       The properties of waves

·       Reflection and refraction

·       Different waves

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 11 –  Medium Term Overview 

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Autumn 2

Atmosphere

Biodiversity

Electromagnetism

Resources

KQFL:  compare historic and current atmospheric compositions

KQFL:  evaluate the methods of maintaining biodiversity

KQFL:   describe the motor effect

KQFL:  purify and test water

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·       History of the atmosphere

·       The evolving atmosphere

·       Greenhouse gases

·       Global climate change

·       Atmospheric pollutants

·       The human population explosion

·       Land and water pollution

·       Air pollution

·       Deforestation and peat destruction

·       Global warming

·       Maintaining biodiversity

·        

·      Magnetic fields

·      Magnetic fields of electric currents

·      The motor effect

·       

·       Finite and renewable resources

·       Water safe to drink

·       Treating waste water

·       Extracting metals from ores

·       Life cycle assessments

·       Reduce, reuse and recycle

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.

Year 11 –  Medium Term Overview 

Science will build on the foundations laid down in previous years. By the end of the year students will know more about world around them. They will do this with a mix of practical and theory-based lessons that focus on ‘everyday’ and interesting phenomena.

Spring 1

Spring 2

Reproduction

Genetics

Variation

Ecosystems

KQFL:  compare different types of reproduction

KQFL:  explain the reasons for extinctions

KQFL:   Evaluate genetic engineering

KQFL:  Use a model to show the carbon cycle

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

Substantive & Disciplinary Knowledge:

·       Types of reproduction

·       Cell division in sexual reproduction

·       DNA and the genome

·       Inheritance in action

·       Inherited disorders

·       Screening for genetic disorders.

·       Evidence for evolution

·       Fossils and extinction

·       Extinction

·       Antibiotic resistant bacteria

·       Classification

·       New systems of classification

·      Variation

·      Evolution by natural selection

·      Selective breeding

·      Genetic engineering

·      Ethics of genetic technologies

·       Feeding relationships

·       Materials cycling

·       The carbon cycle

Assessment:

Pupils will be assessed through homework activities, lesson starter activities, end of Unit class tests and a range of required practicals aimed at assessing the pupils’ practical abilities.