YEAR 8 SCIENCE
Autumn
Week 1.9.14
Week 8.9.14
Baseline Assessment Week Biology Unit 2 Ecosystem
processes
Mon- Training day 1
Week 15.9.14
Biology Unit 2 Ecosystem
processes
Week 22.9.14
Year 7 Camp
Biology Unit 2
Ecosystem processes
Week 29.9.14
Eid- Oct 4th
Biology Unit 3 Adaptations
and Inheritance
Assessment activities:
End of unit assessment
Assessment activities: Q&A to
Biology Unit 2 Ecosystem
Processes
Assessment activities: Q&A
Assessment activities: Q&A
Assessment activities:
to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Homework: Biology Unit
2 Home Learning booklet.
Week 6.10.14
Biology Unit 3
Adaptations and Inheritance
Homework: Biology Unit 2
Revision Sheets.
Week 13.10.14
Biology Unit 3
Adaptations and Inheritance
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
.
Week 20.10.14
Data Entry 1
Chemistry Unit 1 The Periodic
table
Week 27.10.14
Oct ½ term
Assessment activities: Q&A
to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Homework: Biology Unit
3 Revision Sheets.
assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions
Homework: Biology Unit 3
Home Learning booklet.
GRADES ON THE SYSTEM
Week 3.11.14
Chemistry Unit 1 The Periodic
table
Assessment activities:
End of unit assessment
Assessment activities:
Assessment activities:
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Homework: Chemistry Unit
1 Home Learning booklet.
GRADES ON THE SYSTEM
Dept curriculum and assessment map Sept 2014-2015
Week 10.11.14
Thurs- Yr 7 Settling in eve
Chemistry Unit 1 The
Periodic table
QWC Lesson and Revision
Lesson
Week 17.11.14
Chemistry Unit 2
Separation Techniques
Week 24.11.14
Mon- Training day 2
Wed 12th Careers event
Yr 11 Clinic
Project 70 Launch
Chemistry Unit 2 Separation
Techniques
Assessment activities:
End of unit assessment
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Homework: Chemistry
Unit 2 Home Learning
booklet.
Assessment activities:
Assessment activities:
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
GRADES ON THE
SYSTEM
Homework: Chemistry Unit 2
Revision Sheets
Week 1.12.14
Thurs- Cohort 2017
Yr 9 parents eve &
option fair
Chemistry Unit 2
Separation Techniques
Assessment activities:
End of unit assessment
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions
Dept curriculum and assessment map Sept 2014-2015
Week 8.12.14
Yr 11 Mock 1 Entry
Chemistry Unit 3Metals and
Acids
Assessment activities:
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
GRADES ON THE SYSTEM
Homework: Chemistry Unit
3 Home Learning booklet
Week 15.12.14
Chemistry Unit 3Metals
and Acids
Week 22.12.14
Week 29.12.14
Christmas Break
Assessment activities:
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions
Homework: Chemistry
Unit 3 Revision Sheets
Spring Week 5.1.15
Data Entry 2
Chemistry Unit 3Metals
and Acids
Assessment activities:
End of unit assessment
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Homework: Chemistry
Unit 4 Home Learning
booklet
Week 12.1.15
Chemistry Unit 4 The Earth
Week 19.1.15
Thurs- Cohort 2015
Yr 11 parents eve
Week 2.2.15
Mon- Training day 3
Physics Unit 1Electricity and Magnetism
Chemistry Unit 4 The Earth
Assessment activities:
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions
GRADES ON THE SYSTEM
Assessment activities:
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions
Homework: Chemistry Unit 4 Revision
Sheets
Dept curriculum and assessment map Sept 2014-2015
Assessment activities:
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions
GRADES ON THE SYSTEM
Week 9.2.15
Thurs- Cohort 2015
Yr 11 parents eve
Week 16.2.15
Feb ½ term
Physics Unit 1Electricity
and Magnetism
Assessment activities: Q&A
to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Physics Unit 1Electricity and Magnetism
Week 9.3.15
Physics Unit 2 Energy
Assessment activities:
End of unit assessment
Assessment activities:
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions
Week 23.2.15
Homework: Physics Unit 1
Home Learning booklet.
Week 16.3.15
Yr 11 Mock 2 entry
Thurs- Cohort 2018
Yr 8 parents eve
Physics Unit 2 Energy
Assessment activities:
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Homework: Physics Unit
2 Revision Sheets
Week 23.3.15
Thurs- Yr 11 Exam Clinic
Fri- Training day 4
Physics Unit 2 Energy
Week 30.3.15
Easter Hols
Week 13.4.15
Physics Unit 3 Motion and Pressure
Assessment activities:
Assessment activities:
End of unit assessment
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Homework: Physics Units 3 Home
Learning booklet.
Dept curriculum and assessment map Sept 2014-2015
GRADES ON THE SYSTEM
Week 20.4.15
Physics Unit 3 Motion and
Pressure
Week 27.4.15
Physics Unit 3 Motion and
Pressure
Week 4.5.15
Physics Unit 3 Motion and
Pressure
Assessment activities:
Assessment activities:
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Homework: Physics Unit
3 Revision sheets.
Assessment activities:
End of unit assessment
Q&A to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
.
Week 25.5.5.15
May ½ term
Week 1.6.15
Thurs- Cohort 2016
Yr 10 parents
eve
HOW SCIENCE WORKS
-Presenting data
Tables and Line Graphs
Bar charts
Week 11.5.15
Data Entry 4
HOW SCIENCE WORKS
(PREPARATION FOR
CONTROLLED
ASSESSEMNT).
How science works
Fundamentals
Starting an investigation
HOW SCIENCE WORKS
Planning an Investigation
Designing an Investigation
Types of Variables
Assessment activities: Q&A
Assessment activities: Q&A
to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
HOW SCIENCE WORKS
Homework: How Science
Works Home Learning
booklet.
GRADES ON THE
SYSTEM
Week 15.6.5.15
Mon- Training day 5
Tues- Roll up
Identifying Anomalous
results
Calculating mean , mode
and median
HOW SCIENCE WORKS
Using data to draw
conclusions
Analysing data
Week 8.6.15
Week 18.5.15
Homework: How Science
Works Home Learning
booklet.
Dept curriculum and assessment map Sept 2014-2015
Week 22.6.15
PREPARATION FOR
MOCK ISA
How Science Works
Terms
Assessment activities: Q&A
to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Week 29.6.15
Data Entry 5
Week 6.7.15
PREPARATION FOR
MOCK ISA
-Research
-Preparation for section 1
Assessment activities: Q&A
MOCK ISA
ISA Section 1
- The investigation
- Graph and Results
Tables
Assessment activities: Q&A
to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
to assess prior learning
Exam questions
Experimental work
QWC questions.
Week 13.7.15
Thurs- Cohort 2019
Yr 7 parents eve
Preparation for section 2
Week 22.7.15
Thurs- Start of summer
MOCK ISA Section 2
Dept curriculum and assessment map Sept 2014-2015
Week 29.7.15