Topics, lessons and looms
Biology
Students will learn about the key nutrients required to maintain a healthy human diet along with the consequences of imbalances in the diet, how tissues and organs are adapted for their function within the digestive system and the importance of bacteria and enzymes in the human digestive system. They will also carry out food tests and how to determine the energy content in food.
Students will learn the structure of DNA and how characteristics are inherited. They will study human evolution and the classification system along with completion within and between the species. Students will learn about the reasons behind extinction and why conservation is important.
Chemistry
The Earth and Atmosphere
Students will learn about the history and development of the Periodic Table, including the arrangement of elements and their properties. Students will revisit atoms and elements and be introduced to the structure of the atom, including sub atomic particles. They will investigate the reactions of metals and the reactivity of metals along with how metals can be extracted.
Students will learn to use word and symbol equations to represent reactions. Students will be able to explain how atoms are rearranged during chemical reactions. The will study combustion, oxidation and thermal decomposition reactions along with the reactions of metals and metal oxides and endothermic and exothermic reactions and how catalysts alter chemical reactions.
Physics
Speed and Motion
Students will learn about the properties of both sound and light waves and be able to use diagrams to represent the transmission of light through different objects and explain colour and the function of the eye. Students will investigate the speed of sound.