Year 9 students follow a Science carousel and rotate Physics, Chemistry and Biology lessons each term.
| Biology | Chemistry | Physics | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Topic Title | Variation for survival | Our health and the effects of drugs | Obtaining useful materials | Using our earth sustainably | Motion on earth and in space | Waves and energy transfer | |
| Key Skills and Content | • Variation and classification | • Body systems | • Metals/Metal ores | • Combustion | • Forces | • Energy stores and transfers | |
| • Adaptations | • Cigarettes and alcohol | • Reactions of metals | • The atmosphere | • Forces in equilibrium | • Fuels are energy stores | ||
| • Survival of the fittest | • Anabolic steroids | • Reactivity | • Useful materials | • Speed and motion | • Energy in the home | ||
| • Cells | • Effects of drugs | • Changes in chemical reactions | • Damage to the Earth’s resources | • Gravitational fields and the motion of the Earth | • Sound waves | ||
| • Reproduction | • Role of blood | • Reaction energy and catalysts | • Recycling | • The solar system and space | • Water waves | ||
| • Inside the nucleus | • Preventing and treating infection | • Properties of materials | • Rocks/their cycle | • Stars and galaxies | • Light waves | ||
| • Inheritance | • Microbes | • Special materials | |||||
| • Disease | |||||||
| Summative | Combination of: | Combination of: | Combination of: | Combination of: | Combination of: | ● End of unit test comprising multiple choice and long answer questions | |
| Assessment | ● End of unit test (multiple choice and long answer questions) | ● End of unit test (multiple choice and long answer questions) | ● End of unit test (multiple choice and long answer questions) | ● End of unit test (multiple choice and long answer questions) | ● End of unit test (multiple choice and long answer questions) | ● End of year cumulative test | |
| ● Half-term Project | ● Half-term Project | ● Half-term Project | ● Half-term Project | ● Half-term Project | |||
