Science (Y10)

Topic

Big Ideas

Weeks

Assessment

Curriculum Overlap

Reactions and Patterns in Chemistry

Investigating the properties and reactions of simple substances to identify patterns, including metals and non-metals, acids and bases. Using chemical language to describe reactions – basic formulae and simple word equations.

10

Test

Sports Physiology

Investigating how the circulatory and gas exchange systems work together in animals like ourselves. We’ll also explore how our skeletons and muscles allow movement and balance.

6

Annotate parts of the human body and show how different systems work together.

PE / Health in Term 2

Engineering and Models

Explore the physics ideas behind some simple machines and structures. You will build and test scale models like engineers.

6

Testing and investigating models

Human Reproduction and Genetics 

An introduction to the way that human life reproduces and passes on genetic information. Why you are the way that you are.

6

Make a booklet to explain a genetic disease to a young adult and parent

Electricity

A playful introduction to static electricity, building circuits and magnetism. Followed on by how electricity and magnets can work together to make speakers, motors, etc…

4

Earth Cycles

Even the earth is changing over deep time. We’ll look at the internal and external processes that shape the earth’s surface, including plate tectonics, earthquakes and volcanoes. We’ll also explore the cycles that drive our atmosphere and ocean systems.

8

Social Science