Unit 1 - Introduction to Science

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Skills and understanding

Unit 2 - Electric Networks

Content

Forces between charges (attraction and repulsion).
Positive and negative charges.
Static electricity.
Symbols to draw circuits.
Current is the flow of charges (electrons). Ampere as unit of current.
Voltage is the amount of positive and negative charge maintained at the ends of a battery. This push and pull the mobile negative charges in the conductor. Volts as unit of voltage.
Resistance is the measure of how difficult it is for charges to flow through a material.It´s the measure of how difficult it is for charges to flow through a material. Ohm as unit of resistance.
Conductor (allow current to flow freely and insulator (do not allow current to flow) materials.
Series and parallel circuits.

Skills and understanding

Understand forces between charges (attraction and repulsion)
Recognise that there are two kinds of charge positive and negative.
Describe current as a flow of charge.
Describe voltage as the amount of positive and negative charge maintained at the ends of a battery.
Describe resistance as a material's opposition to the flow of electric current.
Use the terms conductors and insulators correctly.

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What living things have in common?
What life processes are introduced with discussion and book, reinforced when looking at single cell lifeforms.
To use microscopes, the parts of the microscope, the history of the microscope.
The basic description of a cell and major differences between animal and plant cells
The basics of vacuoles (water filled giving the plant structural strength- no skeleton) and cell walls (thickness can be seen with onion cells also rigid "box" shape). Cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, chloroplasts.
Specialised cells: There are different types of cells and how cells are organised.
Basic knowledge of the three basic ideas behind cell theory (cells and heredity- Prentice Hall p10). So that means cells divide and pass on genetic information.
That there is a relationship between form and function in specialist cells.

Skills and understanding

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Variation in living things, animals, plants and humans.
Graphing: bar graph vs a histogram
Correlation.
The distinct personality of an individual. Who you are, where you come from influences in your personality.
Life cycles.
Reproductive parts and functions fertilisation and conception hormones cause puberty hormones cause behavioural changes (adolescence) cells divide and have genetic material; fertilisation means new sets of genetics are made.
Relevant vocab:- fertilisation, umbilical cord, embryo, foetus, newborn, placenta, amniotic fluid

Skills and understanding

Discuss classification with plant, animals and human images to identify variation.
Use continuous and discontinuous data to construct graphs
Graphing correlation.
Discuss what makes identity
Identify the parts of the reproductive system and organs.
Use flash cards on puberty, menstrual cycle and human development.
Describe how unique we are.
Describe a family tree.

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The forms of energy (kinetic/movement, stored energy (gravitational, elastic, chemical), electrical, sound, thermal/heat, light, nuclear)
Energy is transferred (place to place) or transformed (form to form)
Total amount of energy is conserved, but can get less useful.
Sankey diagrams showing transfers and transformations and useful and wasted.
Knowledge of energy resources (fossil fuels, hydro, wind, solar, nuclear)
Renewable and non-renewable energies.

Skills and understanding