Outline Schemes Of Work

Year 9

What is Biology?

What are animals and plants built from?

How do plants obtain the food they need to live and grow?

What happens to energy and biomass at each stage in a food chain?

How do humans respond to changes inside them and to their environment?

What determines where particular species live and how many of them there are?

How do humans affect the environment?

How science works.

ISA.

Year 10

Why are individuals of the same species different from each other?

What new methods do we have for producing plants and animals with the characteristics we prefer?

Which human characteristics show a simple pattern of inheritance?

Why have some species of plants and animals died out?

How do new species of plants and animals develop?

What can we do to keep our bodies healthy?

What causes infectious diseases and how can our bodies defend themselves against them?

How do we use/abuse medical and recreational drugs?

ISA.

What are enzymes and what are some of their functions?

What happens to waste material produced by plants and animals?

Year 11

How do our bodies keep internal conditions constant?

How do exchanges in the kidney help us to maintain the internal environment in mammals and how has biology helped us to treat kidney disease?

How do dissolved substances get into and out of cells?

ISA.

How do dissolved substances get into and out of plants and animals?

How are dissolved materials transported around the body?

How does exercise affect the exchanges taking place within the body?

How are micro-organisms used to make food and drink?

What other useful substances can we make using micro-organisms?

How can we be sure we are using micro-organisms safely?