South East Essex Academy Trust (SEEAT)

Cornelius Vermuyden School

Science

Intent

Career Opportunities in Science

The study of Science develops critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills that are highly valued across a wide range of careers. Science-related fields include medicine, pharmacy, nursing, biomedical research, engineering, forensic science, environmental science, and veterinary medicine. It also provides pathways into roles in space exploration, food science, biotechnology, marine biology, genetics, and renewable energy. Beyond traditional scientific careers, the skills gained from studying science are applicable in sectors such as finance, data analysis, technology, patent law, science communication, and education.

Science is highly respected by universities and employers for its emphasis on investigation, practical application, and evidence-based reasoning. Many higher education institutions offer specialist courses in scientific disciplines, opening the door to further academic and professional opportunities.

Year 7 Curriculum Overview

Autumn Term

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Biology

Microscopes, Cells, Tissues organs

In this unit students will learn how we use microscopes to observe Cells the building block of all living things.
Excellent students will be able to compare the similarities and differences of different types of cells and how they are adapted to the function they perform.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and end of unit assessment.  Students will also be assed on the use of microscopes and preparing samples to observe.

Chemistry

The particle model and change of state.

 

Mixtures and how we separate them

This unit develops an understanding of the different properties of solids, liquids and gases, and how energy is involved in this change.

 

In this unit students will be looking into the different ways substances can be mixed, and the different techniques scientists can use to separate mixtures.

Students will continue to develop their experimental skills.

Excellent students will be able to explain and model what is happening to the particles and their arrangement as they change between the 3 states of matter.

 

Excellent work will use the correct terminology in a range of contexts and students will be able to successfully, and safely, select and use the various techniques to separate various mixtures.  

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and end of topic assessment.  Practically pupils will be assessed modelling the=is change in the classroom. Practical skills will be assessed based on accuracy and safety.

Physics

Energy

This unit uses a theme park to introduce the idea that stores of energy are needed to make most things happen. It looks at food, energy stores and transfers, and energy resources in terms of non-renewable fuels and renewable resources. Excellent students will be able to identify energy stores and transfers that take place in a range of different contexts. Eg  Different fuel types powering cars today. Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and end of unit assessment.

 Spring Term

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Biology

Reproduction in Animals and Plant

In this unit students will learn the correct terminology for the male and female reproductive organs.  Students will learn what reproduction is and how, through puberty, the human body changes to allow it to occur. They will describe the menstrual cycle in females. They will describe the process of fertilisation, implantation and gestation. Students will identify potential problems with reproduction and define IVF.   Excellent students will Students will describe the difference between internal and external fertilisation. Describe human reproductive processes in detail using the correct scientific terminology. They will be able to  explain adaptations of sperm and egg cells and in organs such as cilia in the oviduct. They will describe the process of IVF and discuss the ethical, social and economic issues surrounding the process.  

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and end of unit assessment.

Students will use the correct terminology to describe the main classification groups of plants and how we can preserve plant species for future generations.  

Biology

Plant growth

 

Students will learn about classification and biodiversity of plants. This will lead on to plant reproduction, pollination, seed dispersal, germination and growth. This will then link into the process of photosynthesis.   

Students will use the correct terminology to describe the main classification groups of plants and how we can preserve plant species for future generations.  

Students will exhibit a clear and sophisticated grasp of the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction in plants. 

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and end of unit assessment.

Students will exhibit a clear and sophisticated grasp of the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction in plants. 

Chemistry

Acids and Alkalis

 

This unit looks at acids and alkalis and how they are described using a pH number. It looks at neutralisation reactions and some of their uses, and also introduces standard hazard symbols. 

Excellent students will be able to explain using indicators if something is acidic an alkali or neutral and how we handle the chemical safely from the hazards associated with the chemical.  They will be able to construct chemical equations for neutralisation reactions. 

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and end of topic assessment.  Practically students will be assessed on how they work safely with Acids and alkalis in the classroom.  

Physics

Waves Sound and light

 

Students will look at  how sounds are made, transmitted and detected, some uses of sound and compares sound waves with waves on the surface of water. to consider how light travels and what happens when it meets an object.  

Excellent students will be able to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between light and sound their properties and how they travel  

Assessments will be through knowledge retrieval and summative testes concluding and evaluating practical work.  

Summer Term

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Year 8 Curriculum Overview

Autumn Term

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Biology

Ecosystems

Food and Nutrition

During this unit students will explore the links between the various organisms within different ecosystems as well as the effect human activity has on the environment.

 

This unit looks at the main components in the human diet and why they are needed. The importance of the digestive system, introducing how enzymes help this process.

Excellent work will use the correct terminology in a range of contexts and students will be able to successfully construct food webs and use these to explain the effects of adding or removing species from an ecosystem.

Excellent work will identify nutrient deficiencies from diseases and foods that should be included in the diet to  prevent them.  Describing the journey of food through the digestive system.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and a summative test.  Practical work in the field and practically testing foods for nutrients.

Chemistry

Atoms, Elements, Molecules and the periodic table

During this unit students will explore that our earth its atmosphere and indeed the universe contain a mixture of materials with different properties and about the periodic table where these materials are grouped. Excellent work will demonstrate the correct terminology in a range of contexts, with pupils being able to define the key words and start to use the periodic table and writing word and symbol equations. Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and summative tests.

Physics

Waves, Sound and light

This unit looks at how sounds are made, transmitted and detected, some uses of sound and compares sound waves with waves on the surface of water. to consider how light travels and what happens when it meets an object.

Excellent students will be able to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between light and sound their properties and how they travel.
Assessments will be through knowledge retrieval and summative testes concluding and evaluating practical work.

 Spring Term

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Biology

Muscles, Breathing and respiration.

Students will learn how our bodies are supported and protected by our skeleton, and how we move our bodies by antagonistic muscles moving bones around joints. They will learn how energy for muscle contraction comes from respiration. They will appreciate the role that the breathing system, circulatory system and blood has in providing the raw materials for this process.    Excellence Students will describe the role of different types of joint in the body, antagonistic muscles are necessary for movement. They will link the structure of organs in the circulatory and respiratory system to their function. They will use scientific terminology to describe biological process in detail such as the ventilation of the lungs, gas exchange in the alveoli and the changes that occur in the body during exercise. They will describe aerobic and anaerobic respiration using word equations. They will explain the concept of oxygen debt/EPOC in anaerobic respiration.    Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and a summative test.  Being able to formulate word equations for aerobic and anaerobic respiration.

Biology

Plants reproduction and growth

 

Students will learn about classification and biodiversity of plants. This will lead on to plant reproduction, pollination, seed dispersal, germination and growth. This will then link into the process of photosynthesis.   

Students will use the correct terminology to describe the main classification groups of plants and how we can preserve plant species for future generations.  

Students will exhibit a clear and sophisticated grasp of the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction in plants. 

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and a summative test.

Chemistry

Metals their uses and reactivity

 

Students will learn the uses of metals linked to their physical and chemical properties.  

Excellent work will demonstrate the correct terminology in a range of contexts, with students be able to link use of a metal to its physical or chemical properties and predict how reactive it is compared to other metals, writing chemical equations to show the reactants and products. 

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and summative tests and their practical predictions and conclusions in class experiments. 

Physics

Forces Magnets and Magnetic fields.

 

Students will learn about magnetic materials and their properties and what makes them magnetic.  About the magnetic field around the earth and how to make electromagnet and its uses. 

Excellent will plot the magnetic fields around a magnet using iron filings or compasses or the earth's magnetic field. Using the correct terminology they will be able to explain how compasses work and magnetic north. 

Assessments will be through knowledge retrieval and summative tests.  Practically being able to make temporary magnets, compasses and electromagnets. 

Summer Term

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Year 9 Curriculum Overview

Autumn Term

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

In Biology: Cells and specialised cells

 

The role and function of enzymes

In this unit students will learn history and developments of the microscope; differences between different cell types and how they are adapted to that job.

How Enzymes work and how they help biological reactions

Students will be able to They will also be able to clearly and concisely detail the differences between different types of cells, and how this impacts the role of the cell.

Students will be able to interpret experimental data to draw conclusions regarding the ideal conditions of different enzymes and what can affect them.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval.  Students will also be assessed on their ability to prepare cell slides and use a microscope to view them.

In Chemistry: Particle model

 

Methods of separating and purifying substances

In this unit students will learn about the three states of matter; how the particles are arranged and how they move in a solid, liquid and gas. They will learn about what happens during changes of state.

In this unit students will learn about the differences between a pure substance and a mixture, and the different ways that mixtures can be separated. They will learn about the processes of distillation and chromatography and how water can be treated and purified to make it drinkable.

In this unit students will learn about the three states of matter; how the particles are arranged and how they move in a solid, liquid and gas. They will learn about what happens during changes of state.

Excellent work will use include a detailed method to describe the processes of distillation and chromatography.  

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, and knowledge retrieval.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions.  Students will also be assessed on their ability to complete practical work in a safe and competent manor.

In Physics: Conservation of Energy

 

Motion

Students will learn ways in which energy can be transferred and stored, how to reduce energy transfers, and the renewable and non-renewable resources we use in everyday life.

Students will learn how to categorise moving and stationary objects with size and direction.  Hoe to measure speed and acceleration.

Excellent students will be able to suggest ways to reduce wasted energy in a range of different contexts understanding and to evaluate the pros and cons of different renewable and non-renewable energy resources.

Excellent students will be able to identify if objects are vectors or scalars.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and a summative test.

Pupils will also be assessed on their ability to plan, collect and conclude results in practical situations to calculate speed and acceleration

Spring Term

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Biology

The role and function of enzymes

How Enzymes work and how they help biological reactions. Students will be able to interpret experimental data to draw conclusions regarding the ideal conditions of different enzymes and what can affect them.  Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval.  Students will also be assessed on their ability to prepare cell slides and use a microscope to view them. 

Biology

Health, Disease, and the Development of Medicines

 

In this unit students will learn how pathogens cause disease; how the spread of pathogens can be controlled; the immune system, and the ways the body is protected from infection; antibiotics; and the development of new medicines. Excellent work will show calculations set out correctly and answers will be expressed with the correct scientific unit in a range of different scenarios. Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions. 

Physics

Motion and forces

 

Students will learn how to categorise moving and stationary objects with size and direction. Hoe to measure speed and acceleration.

Students will learn about forces and motion, this includes Newtons 1st,2nd and 3rd Laws of motion. 

Excellent students will be able to identify if objects are vectors or scalars.

Excellent students will be able to apply knowledge of forces to everyday examples: for instance, the design of cars to reduce harm to the occupants and factors that affect speed limits for vehicles.

Students will also be assessed on their ability to plan, collect and conclude results in practical situations to calculate speed and acceleration

Assessment will be through a core practical investigating acceleration and multiple-choice questions, knowledge retrieval and a summative test. 

Summer Term

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Year 10 Curriculum Overview

Autumn Term

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Biology: Genetics

 

Natural selection and Genetic modification

In this unit students will learn about the production of sex cells through meiosis; the structure of DNA; mutations and genetic variation; and the inheritance of characteristics within families.  

 

In this unit students will learn about the Darwin's theory of evolution; how we investigate evolution; classification of organisms; selective breeding; and genetic modification

Excellent work will show students interpreting being able to draw links between the phenotype and the genotype. Students will be able to predict the genotype of parents from the characteristics of their offspring, as well as the probability of certain characteristics being shown in the offspring.

 

Students will be able to correctly use key words in their discussions of evolution and related concepts. Students will also be able to discuss the various ways in which organisms are changed, both natural and manmade.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.  Students will also be assessed on their practical skills through the extraction of DNA.  

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions. 

Chemistry: Ionic, Covalent and metallic bonding and their properties

 

Acids and Alkalis

In this unit students will learn about how elements combine during ionic bonding, covalent and metallic bonding and draw diagrams to represent this.

 They will learn how the interaction between positive and negative ions creates a lattice structure.  They will learn how non-metals atoms can form both molecular structures.

They will learn about the properties of the four types of structure: Simple covalent, giant covalent, ionic and metallic.

In this unit student will learn about acids and Alkalis in everyday situations, how concentration affect the pH of an acid or an alkali, indicators that we use to determine if a substance is an acid or an alkali.  How acids and alkalis are reacted to make salts.

Excellent students will be able to identify and draw accurate dot and cross diagrams to show ionic, covalent and metallic bonds.

 They will be able to how the lattice structure of giant ionic substances affects properties such as melting and boiling point.

They will be able to explain the patterns and links between the  physical properties and type of bond formed

Excellent students will be able to identify if a substance is an acid or an alkali from different indicators that are use.  Explain what products are made when acids react with different bases, and how to describe a neutralisation reaction.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions as well as in class demonstrating how these bond are formed with diagrams.

 

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions, practical abilities will also assessed.

Physics: Radioactivity

Students will learn more about the history and structure of an atom and will discover how radioactivity is produced when unstable atoms decay.

Excellent students will be able to show and interpret how an unstable atom decays, the hazards and health risks associated with this to humans and the environment.

Assessment will be through a range of formative and summative tests, and being able to describe practical's to identify the type of radiation being emitted and how the operator should remain safe.

 Spring Term

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

 Chemistry

Electrolysis

In this unit, students will learn about electrolysis, how it works, and the key terms associated with it such as anode, cathode, cation, anion and electrolyte. They will learn about what products form at the anode and cathode depending upon which electrolyte is used.   Excellent students will explain electrolysis in terms of reduction and oxidation and write half equations based on reactions at the electrodes.   Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions. Students will carry out a required practical to carry out electrolysis on copper sulphate.   

Chemistry

Chemical Calculations

 

In this unit, students will learn how to calculate relative formula mass and empirical formulae. They will also use calculations to find the concentration of solutions and the mass or reactants or products in chemical reactions.   Excellent students will understand the concept of moles and how this relates to the number of particles in substances. They will use moles to help calculate masses of different substances involved in reactions. They will use masses and relative masses of substances to deduce balanced equations of reactions. Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions. 

 Physics

Forces Energy and Doing work

 

In this unit students will learn more about how forces can transfer energy from one form to another and how this can be measured.   Excellent work will Describe, with examples, how objects can interact with or without contact and act together.  Show calculations set out correctly and answers will be expressed with the correct scientific unit in a range of different scenarios.   Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.   

Summer Term

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Year 11 Combined Science Curriculum Overview

Autumn

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Biology

Ecosystems and Material Cycles 

 

 

 

 

Animal Coordination, Control and Homeostasis

In this unit students will learn how Living and non-living things interact within an ecosystem, and the impact human activity can have on this.

 

 

 

In this unit students will learn about the endocrine glands; transport of hormones around the body; control of blood sugar and diabetes; the effects of hormones; and the negative feedback mechanism.

Excellent students will be able to use the correct terminology in a range of different contexts apply the knowledge such as how a particular pollutant or environmental factor will influence the organisms in an area.

 

 Excellent students will be able to use the correct terminology in a range of different contexts to apply the knowledge such as how a our body responds after we eat a meal to store glucose and how we then release that glucose when we need it.  How hormones are used in contraception to prevent pregnancy or to assist couples struggling to conceive.
Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions. Students will also be assed collecting and interpreting data in the field.

 

 

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions. 

Chemistry

Groups in the periodic table

In this unit, students will learn about the properties and uses of elements in group 1, 7 and 0. They will describe trends in groups 1 and 7 such as reactivity and melting and boiling points. They will describe observations and write equations for how the elements in these groups react with other substances, such as how group 1 elements react with water.  

Excellent work will be demonstrated by pupils demonstrating the trends of reactivity within group 1 and 7 and why they are so reactive and compare that to group 0 that are unreactive.  They will be able to predict displacement reactions of Group 7 compounds.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.

Physics

Electricity and circuits

 

Energy- Forces doing work and their effects

Students will learn how electricity is supplied to hospitals, homes and factories, and about its effects and uses in many different types of circuits and electrical safety features within the home.

 

In this unit students will learn more about how forces can transfer energy from one form to another and how this can be measured.

Excellent work will be demonstrated by pupils showing how current, voltage and resistance changes in different types of circuits and how resistance changes with different components in the circuit.

 

Excellent work will show calculations  set out correctly and answers will be expressed with the correct scientific unit in a range of different scenarios.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.  Pupils will also be assessed by their ability to build circuits and collect results from the circuits they have constructed.

 

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions. 

Spring

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Biology

Exchange and transport in animals

In this unit students will develop their understanding of cell transport and how this is affects, respiration; adaptations of the circulatory and respiratory systems; and cardiac output. Excellent students will be able to use the correct terminology in a range of contexts applying all of the previous Animal control, transport and co-ordination to this topic.  Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.  

Chemistry

Factors affecting chemical reaction rates, energy changes within reactions.

In this unit, students will learn about what rate of reaction means and the different ways that rate can be measured. They will describe how different factors can affect the rate of reaction and what is meant by activation energy, and reactions that give out or take in heat and what causes this.   Excellent work will be demonstrated by writing a clear and detailed method for measuring rate of reaction. Students will show that they can use particle theory to explain how different factors affect the rate of a reaction.  Using a reaction profile to tell if a reaction is endothermic or exothermic. Students will be able to determine energy changes in reactions by using bond energy calculations.  Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.  Students will complete a required practical on measuring rates of reaction.  

Chemistry

Hydrocarbons as fuel 

Students will learn about the hydrocarbons in crude oil and how they can be separated into fractions, and the different physical and chemical properties of these. Students will learn about how burning of hydrocarbons can cause problems to our health, and the environment around us. They will then look at how we obtain plastics. Excellent students will be able to draw the molecular and structural formulae of the first 3  hydrocarbons of in the homologous series. They will be able to write symbol equations for reactions such as combustion of fuels and cracking. They will describe the difference between saturated alkanes and unsaturated alkenes.   Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.  

Chemistry

The origins and changes in the earth’s atmosphere

Students will learn how the earth’s early atmosphere was formed and how this has changed from the earth’s formation until the present day. They will describe the greenhouse effect and how this has been linked to climate change. They will describe the effect of climate change on ecosystems and how we can limit this impact.  Excellent students will be able to explain in detail the evidence of the changes in the composition of the earth’s atmosphere such as the presence of absence of iron oxide in the earth's crust and the use of ice cores.  Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.  

Physics

Energy- Forces doing work and their effects

In this unit students will learn more about how forces can transfer energy from one form to another and how this can be measured. Excellent work will show calculations set out correctly and answers will be expressed with the correct scientific unit in a range of different scenarios. Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions. 

Physics

Magnetism, and Electromagnetic forces and fields

In This topic introduces students to magnets and magnetic fields, electromagnetism and magnetic forces.

 

Students will learn about transformers and energy transmission in the national grid. 

Excellent students will be able to use the correct terminology in a range of different contexts apply the knowledge such as how to make an electromagnet, describe the shape and direction of the magnetic field around bar magnets and for a uniform field, and relate the strength of the field to the concentration of lines.

 

Excellent students will be able to describe how electricity is transmitted around the country and use the power equation for transformers with 100% efficiency

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions. Students will also be assessed on their explanation of the difference between permanent and induced magnets. 

 

Assessment will be through calculating the power of an electric current, how transformers follow the law of the conservation of energy, calculating the current and voltage produced by a transformer. 

Physics

Particles forces and matter

This topic introduces you to particles and density, energy and changes of state, energy calculations, and gas temperature and pressure.   
 
This topic covers bending and stretching, and extension and energy transfers.  
Excellent students will be able to explain how forces cause objects to change shape, the difference between elastic and inelastic distortion, and the relationship between force and extension when an object is deformed. Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.  Core practical investigating springs. 

 Year 11 Triple Science Curriculum Overview

What are we learning? What knowledge, understanding and skills will we gain? What will excellence look like? How will this be assessed?

Biology

Ecosystems and Material Cycles 

  

Animal Coordination, Control and Homeostasis

 

Plants and their hormones

In this unit students will learn how Living and non-living things interact within an ecosystem, and the impact human activity can have on this.

 

In this unit students will learn about the endocrine glands; transport of hormones around the body; control of blood sugar and diabetes; body temperature and water control by the kidneys.

 

In this unit student will learn how plant hormones help the plants to respond to their surroundings and how we use them for our benefit.

Excellent students will be able to use the correct terminology in a range of different contexts apply the knowledge such as how a particular pollutant or environmental factor will influence the organisms in an area.

 

Excellent students will be able to use the correct terminology in a range of different contexts to apply the knowledge such as how a our body responds after we eat a meal to store glucose and how we then release that glucose when we need it.  How hormones are used in contraception to prevent pregnancy or to assist couples struggling to conceive.  How will our body react if we are too hot or too cold to keep our core temperature at 37 degrees celsius.

Excellent student will be able to use the correct terminology and apply their knowledge about plants and how they respond in different environmental conditions to ripen fruit or as a weedkiller.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.   Students will also be assed collecting and interpreting data in the field.

 

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions. 

 

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.   Students will also be assessed to design and carry out a class practical to show how plants use hormones to respond to their surroundings.

Chemistry

Groups in the periodic table

 

 

Quantitative analysis

 

 

Application of materials based on their properties

In this unit, students will learn about the properties and uses of elements in group 1, 7 and 0. They will describe trends in groups 1 and 7 such as reactivity and melting and boiling points. They will describe observations and write equations for how the elements in these groups react with other substances, such as how group 1 elements react with water.  

In this unit students will learn about how to test and identify metal ions and ammonia gas.

 

In this topic students will be looking at a range of materials and their properties and linking these physical properties to their uses.

Excellent work will be demonstrated by pupils demonstrating the trends of reactivity within group 1 and 7 and why they are so reactive and compare that to group 0 that are unreactive.  They will be able to predict displacement reactions of Group 7 compounds.

 

Excellent students will be able to describe analytical  tests to use when presented with a suspected ion.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.

 

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.  Practically carrying out tests to identify a range of ions.

Physics

Electricity and circuits

 

Energy- Forces doing work and their effects

Students will learn how electricity is supplied to hospitals, homes and factories, and about its effects and uses in many different types of circuits and electrical safety features within the home.  How objects can become charged with static electricity and the uses and dangers of objects that can become charged.

 

 

In this unit students will learn more about how forces can transfer energy from one form to another and how this can be measured.

Excellent work will be demonstrated by pupils showing how current, voltage and resistance changes in different types of circuits and how resistance changes with different components in the circuit.  Comparing the uses and dangers of static electricity.

 

Excellent work will show calculations set out correctly and answers will be expressed with the correct scientific unit in a range of different scenarios.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions.  Pupils will also be assessed by their ability to build circuits and collect results from the circuits they have constructed.

Assessment will be through multiple choice questions, knowledge retrieval and past GCSE exam questions. 

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