Programme of Study
WS.2.1: ask questions and develop a line of enquiry based on observations of the real world, alongside prior knowledge and experience
WS.2.3: select, plan and carry out the most appropriate types of scientific enquiries to test predictions, including identifying independent, dependent and control variables, where appropriate
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Effect of Temperature on Gender
Growing Plants
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
Real-Time Histogram
Seed Germination
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
Time Estimation
WS.2.5: make and record observations and measurements using a range of methods for different investigations; and evaluate the reliability of methods and suggest possible improvements
Diffusion
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Pendulum Clock
WS.2.6: apply sampling techniques.
WS.3.1: apply mathematical concepts and calculate results
Estimating Population Size
Pendulum Clock
WS.3.2: present observations and data using appropriate methods, including tables and graphs
Graphing Skills
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
WS.3.3: interpret observations and data, including identifying patterns and using observations, measurements and data to draw conclusions
Effect of Temperature on Gender
Seed Germination
WS.3.6: identify further questions arising from their results.
Effect of Environment on New Life Form
Pendulum Clock
Sight vs. Sound Reactions
B.1.A: Cells and organisation
B.1.A.2: the functions of the cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, vacuole, mitochondria and chloroplasts
Cell Energy Cycle
Cell Structure
Osmosis
Paramecium Homeostasis
RNA and Protein Synthesis
B.1.A.3: the similarities and differences between plant and animal cells
B.1.A.4: the role of diffusion in the movement of materials in and between cells
B.1.C: Nutrition and digestion
B.1.C.1: content of a healthy human diet: carbohydrates, lipids (fats and oils), proteins, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre and water, and why each is needed
B.1.C.4: the tissues and organs of the human digestive system, including adaptations to function and how the digestive system digests food (enzymes simply as biological catalysts)
B.1.C.5: the importance of bacteria in the human digestive system roots.
B.1.E: Reproduction
B.1.E.2: reproduction in plants, including flower structure, wind and insect pollination, fertilisation, seed and fruit formation and dispersal, including quantitative investigation of some dispersal mechanisms.
Flower Pollination
Pollination: Flower to Fruit
B.2.A: Photosynthesis
B.2.A.1: the reactants in, and products of, photosynthesis, and a word summary for photosynthesis
Cell Energy Cycle
Photosynthesis Lab
B.2.A.2: the dependence of almost all life on Earth on the ability of photosynthetic organisms, such as plants and algae, to use sunlight in photosynthesis to build organic molecules that are an essential energy store and to maintain levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
Food Chain
Plants and Snails
Pond Ecosystem
B.2.B: Cellular respiration
B.2.B.1: aerobic and anaerobic respiration in living organisms, including the breakdown of organic molecules to enable all the other chemical processes necessary for life
B.3.A: Relationships in an ecosystem
B.3.A.1: the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem, including food webs and insect pollinated crops
B.4.A: Inheritance, chromosomes, DNA and genes
B.4.A.1: heredity as the process by which genetic information is transmitted from one generation to the next
Inheritance
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
B.4.A.2: a simple model of chromosomes, genes and DNA in heredity, including the part played by Watson, Crick, Wilkins and Franklin in the development of the DNA model
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
B.4.A.3: differences between species
B.4.A.7: the importance of maintaining biodiversity and the use of gene banks to preserve hereditary material.
Mouse Genetics (One Trait)
Mouse Genetics (Two Traits)
C.1.1: the properties of the different states of matter (solid, liquid and gas) in terms of the particle model, including gas pressure
C.1.2: changes of state in terms of the particle model.
C.2.3: chemical symbols and formulae for elements and compounds
C.4.1: chemical reactions as the rearrangement of atoms
C.4.2: representing chemical reactions using formulae and using equations
C.4.3: combustion, thermal decomposition, oxidation and displacement reactions
Balancing Chemical Equations
Chemical Equations
C.4.5: the pH scale for measuring acidity/alkalinity; and indicators
Mystery Powder Analysis
pH Analysis
pH Analysis: Quad Color Indicator
C.5.1: energy changes on changes of state (qualitative)
C.6.3: the Periodic Table: periods and groups; metals and non-metals
C.8.3: the rock cycle and the formation of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks
C.8.5: the carbon cycle
C.8.7: the production of carbon dioxide by human activity and the impact on climate.
P.1.B: Energy changes and transfers
P.1.B.1: simple machines give bigger force but at the expense of smaller movement (and vice versa): product of force and displacement unchanged
Ants on a Slant (Inclined Plane)
Levers
Pulley Lab
Pulleys
Wheel and Axle
P.1.B.2: heating and thermal equilibrium: temperature difference between two objects leading to energy transfer from the hotter to the cooler one, through contact (conduction) or radiation; such transfers tending to reduce the temperature difference: use of insulators
Conduction and Convection
Heat Absorption
Heat Transfer by Conduction
Herschel Experiment
Radiation
P.1.B.3: other processes that involve energy transfer: changing motion, dropping an object, completing an electrical circuit, stretching a spring, metabolism of food, burning fuels.
P.1.C: Changes in systems
P.1.C.1: energy as a quantity that can be quantified and calculated; the total energy has the same value before and after a change
Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics
P.1.D: Changes in systems
P.1.D.1: energy as a quantity that can be quantified and calculated; the total energy has the same value before and after a change
Air Track
Energy Conversion in a System
Energy of a Pendulum
Inclined Plane - Sliding Objects
Roller Coaster Physics
P.2.A: Describing motion
P.2.A.1: speed and the quantitative relationship between average speed, distance and time (speed = distance รท time)
Distance-Time Graphs
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
Measuring Motion
P.2.A.2: the representation of a journey on a distance-time graph
Distance-Time Graphs
Distance-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
P.2.A.3: relative motion: trains and cars passing one another.
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
P.2.B: Forces
P.2.B.4: forces: associated with deforming objects; stretching and squashing ? springs; with rubbing and friction between surfaces, with pushing things out of the way; resistance to motion of air and water
Force and Fan Carts
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
P.2.B.7: work done and energy changes on deformation
Ants on a Slant (Inclined Plane)
Pulley Lab
P.2.B.8: non-contact forces: gravity forces acting at a distance on Earth and in space, forces between magnets and forces due to static electricity.
Beam to Moon (Ratios and Proportions)
Charge Launcher
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
Gravitational Force
Gravity Pitch
P.2.E: Forces and motion
P.2.E.1: forces being needed to cause objects to stop or start moving, or to change their speed or direction of motion (qualitative only)
Free Fall Tower
Free-Fall Laboratory
P.3.A: Observed waves
P.3.A.1: waves on water as undulations which travel through water with transverse motion; these waves can be reflected, and add or cancel ? superposition.
P.3.B: Sound waves
P.3.B.1: frequencies of sound waves, measured in hertz (Hz); echoes, reflection and absorption of sound
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Longitudinal Waves
P.3.B.2: sound needs a medium to travel, the speed of sound in air, in water, in solids
P.3.B.3: sound produced by vibrations of objects, in loud speakers, detected by their effects on microphone diaphragm and the ear drum; sound waves are longitudinal
Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Longitudinal Waves
P.3.C: Energy and waves
P.3.C.1: pressure waves transferring energy; use for cleaning and physiotherapy by ultra-sound; waves transferring information for conversion to electrical signals by microphone.
P.3.D: Light waves
P.3.D.3: the transmission of light through materials: absorption, diffuse scattering and specular reflection at a surface
Color Absorption
Heat Absorption
Herschel Experiment
P.3.D.4: use of ray model to explain imaging in mirrors, the pinhole camera, the refraction of light and action of convex lens in focusing (qualitative); the human eye
Ray Tracing (Lenses)
Ray Tracing (Mirrors)
P.3.D.6: colours and the different frequencies of light, white light and prisms (qualitative only); differential colour effects in absorption and diffuse reflection.
Basic Prism
Color Absorption
Heat Absorption
Herschel Experiment
P.4.A: Current electricity
P.4.A.1: electric current, measured in amperes, in circuits, series and parallel circuits, currents add where branches meet and current as flow of charge
Advanced Circuits
Circuit Builder
Circuits
P.4.A.3: differences in resistance between conducting and insulating components (quantitative).
P.4.B: Static electricity
P.4.B.1: separation of positive or negative charges when objects are rubbed together: transfer of electrons, forces between charged objects
P.4.C: Magnetism
P.4.C.1: magnetic poles, attraction and repulsion
P.4.C.4: the magnetic effect of a current, electromagnets, D.C. motors (principles only).
Electromagnetic Induction
Magnetic Induction
P.5.A: Physical changes
P.5.A.4: diffusion in liquids and gases driven by differences in concentration
Colligative Properties
Diffusion
P.5.B: Particle model
P.5.B.1: the differences in arrangements, in motion and in closeness of particles explaining changes of state, shape and density, the anomaly of ice-water transition
Colligative Properties
Phase Changes
Phases of Water
P.5.B.2: atoms and molecules as particles.
P.5.C: Energy in matter
P.5.C.1: changes with temperature in motion and spacing of particles
Temperature and Particle Motion
P.5.D: Space physics
P.5.D.3: the seasons and the Earth?s tilt, day length at different times of year, in different hemispheres
Seasons Around the World
Seasons in 3D
Seasons: Earth, Moon, and Sun
Seasons: Why do we have them?
Summer and Winter
Correlation last revised: 7/28/2014