SCIENCE - KS3

YEAR 7

TERM

UNIT OF STUDY

KEY LEARNING

Autumn

Ecosystems 1

Students know and understand how food chains and webs interconnect and explain the concept of interdependence.
Students understand how bioaccumulation occurs.

Matter 1

Students know and remember the states of matter.
They can use the particle model to explain the properties of the states of matter.
Students can describe changes of state.
Students can describe diffusion.

Forces 1

Students to know and remember the differences between contact and non-contact forces.
Students to know and remember balanced and unbalanced forces.
Students to know and remember how to calculate resultant force and its affects.

Matter 2

Students know and understand they key terms when separating substances.
Students can correctly select and perform separating techniques on different substances

Spring

Organisms 1

Sudents know and remember the names of the organelles found in animal and plant cells
Students know and remember the functions of the organelles found in animal and plant cells
Students know and remember the differences between animal and plant cells
Students know how to use a light microscope
Students know the names and functions of specialised cells.

Energy 1

Students know and remember the 10 types of energy.
Students understand that energy is transferred from stores to other forms.
Students understand how energy is transferred through conduction, convection and radiation

Reactions 1

Students need to know and remember the properties of acids and alkalis.
Students need to recall the pH scale.
Students need to understand what an indicator is.
Students need to know and remember what neutralisation is.

Genes 1

Students will know the different types of variation.
Students will be able to describe the types of variation and link to data.
Students will know and remember that there is variation within and between species and this leads to competition.

Summer

Waves 1

Students will know and remember how light travels.
Students will know the two types of waves
Students know that white light can be split into a spectrum of colours.
Students will understand how light reflects and refracts.

Organisms 2

Students know and remember the structure and function of the skeletal system.
Students know and remember the structure and function of the muscular system.

Earth 1

Students know and remember the structure of the Earth.
Students understand the rock cycle and how different rocks are formed.

YEAR 8

Autumn

Forces 2

Students know and remember how to calculate speed.
Students know how to represent, interpret and describe distance-time graphs.

Matter 3

Students know and remember what makes up an atom.
Students know the differences between atoms, elements and compounds.
Students can describe the differences between compounds and mixtures.

Genes 2

Students will know and remember the structure of the male and female reproductive systems.
Students will understand the menstrual cycle.
Students can describe fertilisation in humans and the development of a fetus.

Ecosystems 2

Students will know and remember the structure of a flower, its life stages and methods used to disperse seeds.
Students will know the difference between wind and insect pollination and how flowers are designed to carry out this type of pollination.

Waves 2

Students will know how sounds travels and the effects different mediums have on sound.
Students will understand what and echo is.
Students will understand what and ultrasound is.
Students will know how loudspeakers work.

Reactions 2

Students can describe what happens when a metal and acid react
Students can describe what happens when metals react with oxygen

Organisms 3

Students know the components of the respiratory system.
Students understand inhalation and exhalation.
Students understand how the lungs are adapted for gas exchange.

Forces 3

Students know the effect drag has on objects.
Students know the difference between mass and weight.
Students know how to carry out practical investigations and analyse data linked to the extension of a spring.

Ecosystems 3

Students will know the difference between aerobic and anaerobic respiration
Students will be able to recall the word equation for both aerobic and anaerobic respiration

Spring

Earth 2

Students know and remember that the Earth is tilted and how this effects the seasons.
Students can describe the seasons, day length and why this changes throughout the year.
Students know and remember that our Sun is a star, that there are other stars in our galaxy and there are other galaxies.

Reactions 3

Students know and remembers the law of conservation of mass and how this can be used to balance equations
Students understand different reactions including thermal decompositions, oxidation, combustion and displacement.
Students can recall the order of the reactivity series.

Energy 2

Students know how to calculate the cost of energy in the home.
Students know and remember renewable and non-renewable energy resources.

Organisms 4

Students know the effect of recreational drugs on health.
Students understand the impact of lifestyle choices on health.
Students will know the organs that make up the digestive system and how they work.

Ecosystems 4

Students know and remember the equation for photosynthesis.
Students understand the role of photosynthesis in the balancing of gases in the atmosphere.
Students know the role of the leaf in photosynthesis.
Students know and understand the role of the stomata.

Summer

Electromagnetism 1

Students can draw and construct basic electrical circuits.
Students can understand the relationship between current and potential difference.
Students know how to carry out practical investigations linking to resistance ands its affects on current
Students can compare series and parallel circuits and describe current and potential difference in these circuits.
Students know what static charge is and how it builds up.

Earth 3

Students understand the importance of recycling.
Students know the factors effecting climate change and global warming.
Students can understand the carbon cycle

Energy 3

Students know what work done is and how it applies to energy.

Genes 3

Students will be able to describe natural selection.
Students will know and remember the stages of evolution.
Students will know the causes of extinction.

YEAR 9

TERM

UNIT OF STUDY

KEY LEARNING

Autumn

Matter 4

Students know the differences between atoms and elements.
Students know and remember how to navigate the periodic table.
Students know the properties of groups 1,7 and 0.

Forces 4

Students know how to calculate pressure
Students know how pressure changes in liquids and gases.

Reactions 4

Students know and remember the differences between exothermic and endothermic reactions.
Students can produce energy level diagrams.

Electromagnetism 2

Students can describe how magnetism is a force.
Students know how magnets interact with other magnets and metals.
Students can draw magnetic field lines.
Students understand how an electromagnet works

Genes 4

Students understand how we inherit our DNA.
Students to know why we inherit certain traits.
Students to know about the discovery of DNA

Spring

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Summer