Science Year launch


KS1KS2KS3KS4AS/A LEVELVCE/GNVQ


KEY STAGE ONE

SCIENCE

Scientific enquiry

1. Collecting evidence
2.a. Asking questions
2.b. Using first hand experience to answer questions
2.c. Predictions
2.e. Following safety instructions
2.i. Comparing hypothesis with results

Life process and living things
2.c. Exercise and health

Physical process
2.a. Movement of familiar things
2.b. Pushes and pulls are types of forces

Breadth of Study
1.a. Range of contexts of interest to them
1.a. Scientific investigations
2.b. Health and safety

GEOGRAPHY
1.a. Asking geographical questions
1.b. Observe and record

PE
2.c. Appling rules and conventions to specific activities
4.b. To recognise and describe how their bodies feel during different activities

PSHE
5.b. Feel positive about themselves (Setting a new World Record)

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KEY STAGE TWO

SCIENCE

Scientific enquiry

1.a. Cause and effect
1.b. Testing ideas with evidence
2.a. Asking questions
2.c. Predictions
2.e. Use of equipment, risk control
2.k. Comparing hypothesis with results
2.l. Explaining observations

Life process and living things
2.d. Effect of exercise on pulse rate
2.e. Movement – skeletons and muscles
2.h. Exercise and health

Physical process
2.b. Gravity
2.d. Action - reaction
2.e. Measuring forces and identifying direction of action.
3.e. That some vibrations are not directly visible
3.g. Vibrations require a medium

Breadth of Study
1.a. Range of contexts of interest to them
1.a. Scientific investigations
2.b. Health and safety

GEOGRAPHY
1.a. Asking geographical questions
1.b. Collect and record evidence

PE
3.a. Making a performance effective
3.a. Exercise affecting the body in the short term
3.b. Warming up and appropriate preparation
3.d. Wearing appropriate clothing

PSHE
5.a. Share responsibility (of the experiment)
5.b. Feel positive about themselves (Setting a new World Record)

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KEY STAGE THREE

SCIENCE

Scientific enquiry

2.c. Predictions
2.f. Range of equipment, and controlling of risk
2.k. Observations and measurements to draw conclusions
2.m. Use of scientific knowledge to explain and interpret
2.n. Consider anomalies
2.o. Whether the evidence supports the conclusions

Life process and living things
2.e. Movement – skeletons and muscles
2.i. Lung structure in gas exchange

Materials and their properties
2.e. Rock formation

Physical process
2.b. Gravity

Breadth of Study
1.a. Range of contexts of interest to them
1.a. Scientific investigations
2.b. Health and safety

GEOGRAPHY
6.b. Breadth of study – themes – tectonic processes

PE
4.a. Preparation and recovery
4.c. Benefits of regular exercise
3.d. Getting involved in an activity good for their personal and social health

PSHE
3.f. National jump allows them to reflect upon participation

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KEY STAGE FOUR

SCIENCE - SINGLE

Scientific enquiry

1.a. Scientific ideas
1.b. Scientific controversy
1.c. Acceptance of scientific ideas
2.c. Predictions
2.d. Taking uncontrollable factors into account
2.i. Judge level of uncertainty
2.m. Draw conclusions
2.n. Compare conclusions with predictions
2.o. Use scientific knowledge to interpret observations and conclusions
2.p. Consider anomalous data
2.q. Consider reliability of data
2.s. Suggest further investigations

Physical process
2.a. Characteristics of waves

Breadth of Study
1.a. Range of contexts of interest to them
1.a. Scientific investigations
2.b. Health and safety

SCIENCE - DOUBLE

Scientific enquiry

1.a. Scientific ideas
1.b. Scientific controversy
1.c. Acceptance of scientific ideas
2.c. Predictions
2.d. Taking uncontrollable factors into account
2.i. Judge level of uncertainty
2.m. Draw conclusions
2.n. Compare conclusions with predictions
2.o. Use scientific knowledge to interpret observations and conclusions
2.p. Consider anomalous data
2.q. Consider reliability of data
2.s. Suggest further investigations

Living processes and living things
5.b. Impact of human social and economic factors, including population size, on the environment

Physical process
2.g. Newton’s 3rd law
3.d. Waves transfer energy without transferring matter
3.m. Seismic waves
5.c. Force and work

Breadth of Study
1.a. Range of contexts of interest to them
1.a. Scientific investigations
2.b. Health and safety

CITIZENSHIP
3.b. Taking part responsibly in school and community based activities
3.f. National jump allows then to reflect upon participation

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AS/A LEVELS

PHYSICS

OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations)

Physics A

2821 Forces and Motion
5.1.4 Force, Work and Power
5.1.5 Deformation of Solids

2823 Wave Properties
5.3.2 Waves (particularly longitudinal and transverse waves)

2824 Forces, Fields and Energy
5.4.1 Dynamics – Newton’s 3rd Law
5.4.9 Electromagnetic Induction

2825 Component 02: Health Physics
5.6.1 Body Mechanics

Physics B – Advancing Physics
2860 Physics in Action
5.1.1.2 Sensing

2862 Physics in Practice
5.3.1 Instrumentation task
5.3.3 Making sense of data

2862 Component 02: Practical Investigation


Edexcel

Physics
1. Mechanics and Radioactivity
1.13 Work done and energy transfer – can estimate work done during Giant Jump
2. Electricity and Thermal Physics
3. Topics
4. Waves and Our Universe
5. Fields and Forces
6. Synthesis

Physics (Salters Horners)
Unit 5ii Build or Bust?
Earthquake detection, vibration and resonance in structures, damping vibrations and measuring and controlling noise.

AQA

Physics A
3. Current Electricity and Elastic Properties of Solids
12.2 Elastic Properties of Solids
4. Waves, Fields and Nuclear Energy
13.1.3 Progressive Waves
13.1.4 Longitudinal Waves and Transverse Waves (seismic waves as example)
13.4.4 Electromagnetic induction
6E Electronics
15.15.1 Amplifiers
15.15.6 Op amps


Physics B
2. Waves and Nuclear Physics
11.1 Waves, including characteristics of waves
5. Fields and their Applications
14.2 Magnetic Fields – electromagnetic induction



GEOGRAPHY

AQA

Geography A
Module 4 Challenge and Change in the Natural Environment
13.2 Geomorphological Processes and Hazards –
Earthquakes: main characteristics, measurement of earthquakes, familiarity with recent earthquake activities
Impact and Response to Geomorphological Processes and Hazards: particularly hazard perception and response.

Geography B
Module 4 Global Change
13.1 Physical Geography: Plate tectonics and occurrence of earthquakes
13.2 People and the Environment – global distribution of earthquakes, regional effects, prediction and response to earthquakes.

Edexcel

Geography A
Unit 1 Physical Environments
1.1 Earth Systems: 1.1.1 Plate tectonics and processes at plate margins, including earthquake activity. Impact of earthquakes on human activity. Importance of risk assessment, prediction and monitoring, and their limitations.

Geography B
Unit 5 Researching Global Futures
Option 5.2 Living with Hazardous Environments – causes and distribution of earthquakes, impacts on people, economy and environment, different ways of coping with and managing hazards, hazard prediction.

OCR

Geography A
Module 2680 The Physical Environment
5.1.4 Lithosphere – Understanding of tectonic processes
Module 2684 People and Environment
5.5.4 Hazardous Environments – earthquake activity and resultant hazards, effects of seismic activity on lives and property, variations in availability of warning systems, responses to perceived level of danger, risk assessment

Geography B
Module 2691 Issues in the Environment
5.5.1 Natural Hazards and Human Responses – classification of hazards by their causes or by likely impact, understanding of tectonic processes, perception and response to earthquakes, variation in perception depending on attitudes, values and levels of technology, earthquake resistant designs, prediction and warning.


SCIENCE

OCR

2842 Science and Human Activity
5.2.3 Force Fields and Electricity Distribution
force, mass, kinetic energy and potential energy

2843 Interpreting Scientific Information
interpretation of scientific data

2846, Component 1 Science and Global Processes
5.6.2 Plate Tectonic Theory – shock waves, use of seismic techniques, plate tectonic theory, scientific knowledge as result of observation and experiment,


GEOLOGY

OCR

2831 – Global Tectonics and Geological Structures

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VCE/GNVQ LEVELS

SCIENCE

AQA

Foundation Unit 1 Measuring and Observing in Science

Advanced Unit 2 Monitoring the Activity of the Human Body
investigating the ways in which the human body responds to different situations
Advanced Unit 6 Carrying out Scientific Investigations
Advanced Unit 15 Sports Science
Sport and the Body

Edexcel
Foundation Unit 1 Measuring and Observing in Science
Foundation Unit 7 Investigating Health & Fitness

Advanced Unit 2 Monitoring the Activity of the Human Body
Advanced Unit 6 Carrying out Scientific Investigations
Advanced Unit 14 Applications of Physics - Oscillations

OCR
Foundation Unit 1 Measuring and Observing in Science

Advanced Unit 2 Monitoring the Activity of the Human Body
Advanced Unit 6 Carrying out Scientific Investigations
Advanced Unit 21 Using Biophysics to Manage Health
The systems that bring about movement of the human body and their response to exercise, the response of the cardio-respiratory system to exercise

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