- Food and Nutrition: Content of a healthy human diet: carbohydrates, lipids (fats and oils), proteins, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre and water, and why each is needed
- Calculations of energy requirements in a healthy daily diet The consequences of imbalances in the diet, including obesity, starvation and deficiency diseases
- 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)
- Chemical Reactions and Equations: Chemical reactions as the rearrangement of atoms. Representing chemical reactions using formulae and using equations
- Fluids: Changes with temperature in motion and spacing of particles. Internal energy stored in materials
- The differences in arrangements, in motion and in closeness of particles explaining changes of state, shape and density
- Conservation of material and of mass, and reversibility, in melting, freezing, evaporation, sublimation, condensation, dissolving
- Similarities and differences, including density differences, between solids, liquids and gases
- Atmospheric pressure, decreases with increase of height as weight of air above decreases with height
- Pressure in liquids, increasing with depth; upthrust effects, floating and sinking
- Pressure measured by ratio of force over area
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- Breathing and Respiration: The structure and functions of the gas exchange system in humans, including adaptations to function
- The impact of exercise, asthma and smoking on the human gas exchange system
- Aerobic and anaerobic respiration in living organisms, including the breakdown of organic molecules to enable all the other chemical processes necessary for life
- A word summary for aerobic respiration
- The process of anaerobic respiration in humans and micro-organisms, including fermentation, and a word summary for anaerobic respiration
- The differences between aerobic and anaerobic respiration in terms of the reactants, the products formed and the implications for the organism
- Life Learning Skills in Chemistry: A series of Chemistry practical skills lessons based around the three key life learning skills of; resilience, initiative and communication
- Energy Transfer: Comparing energy values of different foods (from labels) (kJ)
- Comparing power ratings of appliances in watts (W, kW)
- Comparing amounts of energy transferred (J, kJ, kW hour)
- Domestic fuel bills, fuel use and costs
- 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
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- Breathing and Respiration: The structure and functions of the gas exchange system in humans, including adaptations to function
- The impact of exercise, asthma and smoking on the human gas exchange system
- Aerobic and anaerobic respiration in living organisms, including the breakdown of organic molecules to enable all the other chemical processes necessary for life
- A word summary for aerobic respiration
- The process of anaerobic respiration in humans and micro-organisms, including fermentation, and a word summary for anaerobic respiration
- The differences between aerobic and anaerobic respiration in terms of the reactants, the products formed and the implications for the organism
- Life Learning Skills in Chemistry: A series of Chemistry practical skills lessons based around the three key life learning skills of; resilience, initiative and communication
- Energy Transfer: Comparing energy values of different foods (from labels) (kJ)
- Comparing power ratings of appliances in watts (W, kW)
- Comparing amounts of energy transferred (J, kJ, kW hour)
- Domestic fuel bills, fuel use and costs
- 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
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- Plants and Their Reproduction: Reproduction in plants, including flower structure, wind and insect pollination, fertilisation, seed and fruit formation and dispersal, including quantitative investigation of some dispersal mechanisms
- Metals and Their Uses: Reactions of acids with metals to produce a salt plus hydrogen
- Reactions of acids with alkalis to produce a salt plus water
- Oxidation and displacement reactions
- Life Learning Skills in Physics: A series of Physics practical skills lessons based around the three key life learning skills of; resilience, initiative and communication
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- Plants and Their Reproduction: Reproduction in plants, including flower structure, wind and insect pollination, fertilisation, seed and fruit formation and dispersal, including quantitative investigation of some dispersal mechanisms
- Metals and Their Uses: Reactions of acids with metals to produce a salt plus hydrogen
- Reactions of acids with alkalis to produce a salt plus water
- Oxidation and displacement reactions
- Life Learning Skills in Physics: A series of Physics practical skills lessons based around the three key life learning skills of; resilience, initiative and communication
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- Life Learning Skills in Biology: A series of Biology practical skills lessons based around the three key life learning skills of; resilience, initiative and communication
- Rocks: The rock cycle and the formation of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks
- Earth as a source of limited resources and the efficacy of recycling
- The composition of the atmosphere
- The production of carbon dioxide by human activity and the impact on climate
- Light: Light waves travelling through a vacuum; speed of light
- The transmission of light through materials: absorption, diffuse scattering and specular reflection at a surface
- Use of ray model to explain imaging in mirrors, the pinhole camera, the refraction of light and action of convex lens in focusing; the human eye
- Light transferring energy from source to absorber leading to chemical and electrical effects; photo-sensitive material in the retina and in cameras
- Colours and the different frequencies of light, white light and prisms; differential colour effects in absorption and diffuse reflection
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