Science - Year 9

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it’s a way of thinking, a way of sceptically interrogating the universe”

– Carl Sagan – 

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2
  • Growing Our Food
  • Reactivity and Trends
  • Life Learning Skills in Physics
  • Life Learning Skills in Biology
  • Making Materials
  • Forces and Motion
  • Life Learning Skills in Biology
  • Making Materials
  • Forces and Motion
  • Genetics and Evolution
  • Life Learning Skills in Chemistry
  • More on Electricity
  • Genetics and Evolution
  • Life Learning Skills in Chemistry
  • More on Electricity
  • Start GCSE work in Biology (Topic 1 – Cell Biology), Chemistry (Topic 1 – Atomic Structure and The Periodic Table) and Physics (Topic 1 – Energy Resources)
  • Growing Our Food: Plants making carbohydrates in their leaves by photosynthesis and gaining mineral nutrients and water from the soil via their roots
  • The role of leaf stomata in gas exchange in plants
  • The reactants in, and products of, photosynthesis, and a word summary for photosynthesis
  • 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
  • The adaptations of leaves for photosynthesis
  • Reactivity and Trends: Representing chemical reactions using formulae and using equations
  • Energy changes on changes of state. The reactivity series and displacement reactions
  • How metals are extracted
  • Percentage loss or gain
  • What is equilibria?
  • 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
  • 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
  • Making Materials: The properties of metals and non-metals The properties of polymers and smart materials
  • What is nanotechnology?
  • What are atoms and ions?
  • Force and Motion: Moment as the turning effect of a force
  • Speed and the quantitative relationship between average speed, distance and time (speed = distance ÷ time)
  • The representation of a journey on a distance-time graph
  • 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
  • Making Materials: The properties of metals and non-metals The properties of polymers and smart materials
  • What is nanotechnology?
  • What are atoms and ions?
  • Force and Motion: Moment as the turning effect of a force
  • Speed and the quantitative relationship between average speed, distance and time (speed = distance ÷ time)
  • The representation of a journey on a distance-time graph
  • Genetics and Evolution: Heredity as the process by which genetic information is transmitted from one generation to the next
  • 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
  • The variation between individuals within a species being continuous or discontinuous, to include measurement and graphical representation of variation
  • 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
  • More On Electricity: Separation of positive or negative charges when objects are rubbed together: transfer of electrons, forces between charged objects
  • The idea of electric field, forces acting across the space between objects not in contact. Earth’s magnetism, compass and navigation
  • The magnetic effect of a current, electromagnets, D.C. motors
  • Genetics and Evolution: Heredity as the process by which genetic information is transmitted from one generation to the next
  • 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
  • The variation between individuals within a species being continuous or discontinuous, to include measurement and graphical representation of variation
  • 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
  • More On Electricity: Separation of positive or negative charges when objects are rubbed together: transfer of electrons, forces between charged objects
  • The idea of electric field, forces acting across the space between objects not in contact. Earth’s magnetism, compass and navigation
  • The magnetic effect of a current, electromagnets, D.C. motors
  • Cell Biology: Cells are the basic unit of all forms of life
  • In this topic pupils will explore how structural differences between types of cells enables them to perform specific functions within the organism
  • Atomic Structure: The periodic table provides chemists with a structured organisation of the known chemical elements from which they can make sense of their physical and chemical properties
  • Energy: Pupils will study the different energy stores, transfers between them, renewable and non renewable energy resources.
Autumn 1 Autumn 2
  • Growing Our Food
  • Reactivity and Trends
  • Life Learning Skills in Physics
  • Life Learning Skills in Biology
  • Making Materials
  • Forces and Motion
  • Growing Our Food: Plants making carbohydrates in their leaves by photosynthesis and gaining mineral nutrients and water from the soil via their roots
  • The role of leaf stomata in gas exchange in plants
  • The reactants in, and products of, photosynthesis, and a word summary for photosynthesis
  • 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
  • The adaptations of leaves for photosynthesis
  • Reactivity and Trends: Representing chemical reactions using formulae and using equations
  • Energy changes on changes of state. The reactivity series and displacement reactions
  • How metals are extracted
  • Percentage loss or gain
  • What is equilibria?
  • 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
  • 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
  • Making Materials: The properties of metals and non-metals The properties of polymers and smart materials
  • What is nanotechnology?
  • What are atoms and ions?
  • Force and Motion: Moment as the turning effect of a force
  • Speed and the quantitative relationship between average speed, distance and time (speed = distance ÷ time)
  • The representation of a journey on a distance-time graph
Spring 1 Spring 2
  • Life Learning Skills in Biology
  • Making Materials
  • Forces and Motion
  • Genetics and Evolution
  • Life Learning Skills in Chemistry
  • More on Electricity
  • 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
  • Making Materials: The properties of metals and non-metals The properties of polymers and smart materials
  • What is nanotechnology?
  • What are atoms and ions?
  • Force and Motion: Moment as the turning effect of a force
  • Speed and the quantitative relationship between average speed, distance and time (speed = distance ÷ time)
  • The representation of a journey on a distance-time graph
  • Genetics and Evolution: Heredity as the process by which genetic information is transmitted from one generation to the next
  • 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
  • The variation between individuals within a species being continuous or discontinuous, to include measurement and graphical representation of variation
  • 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
  • More On Electricity: Separation of positive or negative charges when objects are rubbed together: transfer of electrons, forces between charged objects
  • The idea of electric field, forces acting across the space between objects not in contact. Earth’s magnetism, compass and navigation
  • The magnetic effect of a current, electromagnets, D.C. motors
Summer 1 Summer 2
  • Genetics and Evolution
  • Life Learning Skills in Chemistry
  • More on Electricity
  • Start GCSE work in Biology (Topic 1 – Cell Biology), Chemistry (Topic 1 – Atomic Structure and The Periodic Table) and Physics (Topic 1 – Energy Resources)
  • Genetics and Evolution: Heredity as the process by which genetic information is transmitted from one generation to the next
  • 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
  • The variation between individuals within a species being continuous or discontinuous, to include measurement and graphical representation of variation
  • 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
  • More On Electricity: Separation of positive or negative charges when objects are rubbed together: transfer of electrons, forces between charged objects
  • The idea of electric field, forces acting across the space between objects not in contact. Earth’s magnetism, compass and navigation
  • The magnetic effect of a current, electromagnets, D.C. motors
  • Cell Biology: Cells are the basic unit of all forms of life
  • In this topic pupils will explore how structural differences between types of cells enables them to perform specific functions within the organism
  • Atomic Structure: The periodic table provides chemists with a structured organisation of the known chemical elements from which they can make sense of their physical and chemical properties
  • Energy: Pupils will study the different energy stores, transfers between them, renewable and non renewable energy resources.
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