Unit 3 - Fuel your mind

Content

• Macro and micro-nutrients (organic molecules, monomer, polymer)
• The digestion system
• Food tests
• Energy transfer calculations using E(or Q) = mcΔT.
• The nature of light
• Photosynthesis
• Respiration
• Animal and plant cells and their cellular structures, such as chloroplast and mitochondria.
• Food chain/food web

Skills and understanding

• Research to explore the application of science on a nutrient deficiency disorder
• Identify the nutrient present by experiment
• Calculate the energy content in food by experiment and from secondary data.
• Use experimental skills to investigate light
• Model digestion using a range of equipment
• Use microscopes to view cells

Unit 3 - Physical Science Extension

Content

• Fossil fuels
• Organic chemistry - hydrocarbons
• Organic chemistry - addition polymerisation
• Natural polymers - glucose, starch and cellulose
• Hydrolysis of condensation polymers
• Combustion equations and incomplete combustion

Unit 3 - Life Science Extension

Content

• Fossil fuels
• Organic chemistry - hydrocarbons
• Enzymes
• Activation energy
• Yeast suspension experiment (catalase – substrate concentration)
• Yeast suspension experiment as fermentation
• Natural polymers - glucose, starch and cellulose
• Hydrolysis of condensation polymers
• Concentration of HCl (stomach acid) on starch hydrolysis
• Paper chromatography plant pigments (connect to photosynth and separation techniques Core U1)
• Spinach discs
• Bubbling plants – factors affecting photosynthesis