Y9

Units to be covered in Y9

Autumn Term

Genes 2

KS3

Forces 3

SPS

Spring Term

B1

GCSE Units

P3

Summer Term

C1

P1

Learning Episode 

Learning Intentions

Key Questions

Evolution and creationism

Explain the origin of creationism

What is the origin of creationism?

Explain the difference between creationism and evolution

Why is evolution a "new" idea?

Give two differences between creationism and evolution.

When was evolution first suggested?

Natural selection

Describe the process of natural selection

What is the theory of evolution?

What is a fossil?

What is variation?

Why does variation lead to natural selection?

Describe how organisms evolve over time.

What is the fossil record?

How can fossils show us evolution?

What is evolution?

Charles Darwin

Describe the process of peer review

What is meant by Peer review?

Who was Charles Darwin?

When did he live?

Describe the evidence that Darwin used to develop his theory of natural selection.

What is he famous for?

Where did he travel?

Why were his ideas controversial at the time?

Extinction

Describe some factors that may lead to extinction

What could be the cause of a catastrophic event?

What are the 4 main causes of disease?

What would organisms be in competition for?

Describe the importance of maintaining biodiversity.

What are the causes of climate change?

What impact does climate change have on planet earth?

Competition

Describe how plant and animal species compete

What do animals and plants compete for in the wild?

Why do species compete?

Give an example of competition.

Biodiversity

Describe biodiversity

What is Biodiversity?

Explain the importance of maintaining biodiversity.

What is meant by Captive breeding?

Preserving biodiversity

Describe captive breeding

What are the names of some organisms that are bred in captivity?

What are the advantages of Captive breeding?

Describe how extinction can be prevented.

What are the disadvantages of Captive breeding?

What actions can you take to prevent extinction?

Cells review

Recall structure and function of cells and organelles

What organelles can be found in both plant and animal cells?

What organelles are only found in plant cells?

What is the function of the nucleus?

Inheritance

Describe how characteristics are inherited

Give an example of a physical characteristic

Is blood type an example of an inherited characteristic?

How is eye colour inherited?

Describe the relationship between DNA, genes, and chromosomes.

Put these words in order of size from smallest to largest: Cell, DNA, Chromosome, Gene

How many chromosomes in a human cell?

What is a gene?

Explain how a DNA mutation may affect an organism.

What is a DNA mutation?

If a DNA mutation occurs can a cell survive?

DNA

Describe the structure of DNA

What does DNA stand for?

What is it made of?

What are the names of the four bases?

Describe how scientists worked together to discover the structure of DNA.

What shape is DNA?

Who discovered the shape of DNA?

Did the scientists win the Nobel Prize for their discovery?

DNA extraction practical

Investigate the size of a DNA molecule

What are the hazards in this experiment?

Are the results quantitative or qualitative?

How could you improve this investigation?

Genetics

Describe the difference between dominant and recessive alleles

What is an Allele?

What is a Gene?

Where are Genes found?

Use a Punnett square to show what happens during a genetic cross.

What does Dominant mean?

What does recessive mean?

What is a Punnett Square?

Genetic modification

State how a product is produced using genetic modification

What is meant by genetic modification?

What other term can be used to describe genetic modification?

Give an example of genetic modification.

Describe some advantages of producing products through genetic modification.

State an advantage of genetic modification.

Compare genetic modification and selective breeding

GM debate

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of genetic modification.

State a disadvantage of genetic modification

Evaluate the use of genetic modification

Would you use GM products?

Learning Episode 

Learning Intentions

Key Questions

How magnets interact

Describe how magnets interact

What are the two poles of a magnet called?

What happens when like poles are facing each other?

What happens when opposite poles are facing each other?

Magnetic Fields

Describe how to represent magnetic fields.

Draw a magnetic field around a bar magnet.

Where are the magnetic field lines strongest?

What do field lines that are close together show?

Earth's magnetic field

Describe the Earth's magnetic field.

What is the core of the Earth made of?

Draw the magnetic field lines around the Earth.

What phenomenon is produced at the North pole by the magnetic field and solar emissions?

Navigation

Describe how magnets are used for navigation

What piece of navigation equipment uses a magnet?

How does a magnet help us to navigate?

Electromagnets

Describe how to make an electromagnet

What is an electromagnet?

What are the 3 components of an electromagnet?

Describe how to change the strength of an electromagnet.

What can you do to the core of an electromagnet to make the magnetic force stronger?

What can you do to the coils of wire of an electromagnet to make the magnetic force stronger?

What can you do to the current of an electromagnet to make the magnetic force stronger?

Making electromagnets

Investigate changing the strength of an electromagnet

What is the independent variable in this investigation?

What is the dependent variable in this investigation?

What are the control variables in this investigation?

Using electromagnets

Describe some uses of electromagnets

Give some examples of uses of electromagnets

Mini Project

Research and present to the class one use of an electromagnet

How can you research the use of electromagnets?

How can you present your findings?

DC & AC

Review DC & AC from Y8

What does AC stand for?

What does DC stand for?

What is the difference between AC and DC?

Simple Motors

Describe how a simple motor works

What needs to happen to make the coil move in a simple motor?

Every half turn of the coil what must happen to the current in order to keep the coil turning?

Building a motor

Describe how to build a simple motor

What two things are needed to make a simple motor?

What should the coil of wire be able to do in a simple motor?

Where should the coil be placed in a simple motor?

Uses of simple motors

Describe some uses of simple motors

Identify some uses of simple motors.

Learning Episode 

Learning Intentions

Key Questions

What is "health"?

Describe different measures of our health as an individual

How is health defined?

Identify 3 ways your health can be measured

Explain how individual health is linked to society

How is health used to assess a society?

How does society take responsibility for health in the UK?

Medicine over time

Discuss how the role of a doctor has changed over time

What does a doctor do?

Have there always been doctors? And if not who healed the sick?

Discuss the role of the scientific method and when it was applied to medicine.

What is the scientific method?

What were the 4 humours?

Was early medicine using the 4 humours based on the scientific method? Why?

How did the scientific method affect the practice of medicine?

The heart

Describe the gross structure of the heart

What are the 4 chambers of the heart called?

What valves separate the atrium and ventricle?

What blood vessel brings blood to the heart from the body?

The heart and Vesalius

Andreas Vesalius - case study

What area of medicine was Vesalius most interested in?

Where did Vesalius get the human bodies to do his comparisons of anatomy?

Which previous anatomist's work did Vesalius improve upon to advance the understanding of the body and the human heart?

The circulatory system

Describe the gross structure of the circulatory system

What are the 3 different types of blood vessels called?

Humans have two sides to the heart, what two places does the heart pump blood too?

What term is used to describe the type of circulatory system which has two loops?

Discuss the understanding of the blood in the body before William Harvey

How did people think blood moved in the body before Harvey?

Explain how William Harvey advanced understanding of the circulatory system.

What did Harvey do to advance our understanding of the circulatory system?

What did Harvey's experiments show?

What is disease?

Explain what an infectious disease is.

What is a disease?

What does infectious mean?

Are all diseases infectious?

Sara Josephine Baker - case study Typhoid

How did Dr Baker save lives?

Alice Ball - case study leprosy

How did Alice Ball help sufferers of leprosy?

Clinical trials

James Lind - case study scurvy

What is a clinical trial?

What causes scurvy?

How did Lind reduce scurvy on ships?

Explain why clinical trials are important

Why do we carry out clinical trials?

Why do we test new medicines on healthy volunteers first?

Non-communicable disease

Explain how diseases can be non-communicable

Name some non-communicable diseases.

What causes non-communicable diseases?

Frederick Banting - case study - diabetes

What did Banting discover to treat diabetes?

What organ of the body produces insulin?

What does insulin do?

Development of medicine timeline project

To create a detailed timeline of the development of medicine over human history to include examples of scientists and diseases.

How will you present your timeline?

Complete timeline project

Do you have enough detail about each key individual/event?