KS3 ARE
Subject: Science
Year AP Knowledge & Understanding Skills & Application Subject Specific Language 7 1 Can recall the structure of
living organisms.
Can recall how substances are transported in living organisms.
Can describe a range of forces and their effects.
Can recall the equation that links speed, distance and time. Can identify and name types of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock.
Know the structure of the solar system and its place in the universe
Can state how the moon affects the Earth.
Can set up a microscope Can identify variables in an investigation.
Can explain how changes of state occur.
Can draw a line graph. Can rearrange formulas to calculate unknowns. Can explain properties of rocks based on how it was formed.
Can describe how weathering and erosion occur.
Can explain why places on the Earth have different daylight hours and sunlight at different times of the year.
Ligaments Tendons Joints Nucleus Mitochondria Vacuole Diffusion Speed Acceleration Weight Gravity Weathering Erosion Igneous rock Metamorphic Sedimentary Orbit Global warming Greenhouse effect
2 Can describe inherited and environmental characteristics and why variation is important. Know how pregnancy occurs and how a foetus is supported by the mother.
Recall the particle model and properties of the 3 states of matter.
Can describe how to separate a range of mixtures.
Can describe what sound is and what affects it.
Can identify reflection and refraction of light.
Can plot bar charts and line graphs showing variation data.
Can explain how species are adapted and how variation is a benefit.
Can interpret menstrual cycle data to explain the likelihood of pregnancy.
Can apply knowledge of separation techniques to separate an unknown substance.
Can plan to investigate sound and analyse results.
Species Variation Continuous Discontinuous Gamete Fertilisation Menstruation Ovulation Evaporate Condense Solvent Solute Dissolve Distillation Filtration Chromatography Longitudinal Amplitude Wavelength Frequency Echo Vacuum
Can use ray diagrams to explain and predict the behaviour of light. Incident ray Reflected ray Transparent Translucent Opaque Convex Concave 3
Can state how carbon is recycled in the environment. Know what the greenhouse effect is, what greenhouse gases are and how it is occurring.
Can link extraction, re-use and recycling and can name some methods to extract metals. Know what characterises a metal.
Know how the pH of a solutions changes in acid and alkali and how to neutralise an acid or alkali.
Can convert information about the carbon cycle into a diagram.
Can evaluate claims related to the greenhouse effect and global warming.
Can follow a practical method to extract metals.
Suggest ways of reducing our environmental impact. Can use practical work on reactivity, chemical and physical properties to identify unknown elements.
Can write a method for how to make a neutral solution.
Natural resources Ore Extraction Recycling Electrolysis Displacement Oxidation Reactivity pH indicator Base Concentration Subject: Science
Year AP Knowledge & Understanding Skills & Application Subject Specific Language 8 1 Know that organisms in a food
web depend on each other and the population can be affected by many things.
Can describe how plants reproduce including the structure of a flower and pollination.
That electricity can be
generated by a combination of resources that have
advantages and disadvantages
Can describe population changes linked to predator, prey and the environment. Can explain in details the methods of reproduction found in plants.
Plan an investigation to compare the amounts of energy transferred by different foods. Food web Population Producer Consumer Pollen Ovules Pollination Carpel Dissipates Gravitational potential energy Elastic energy Kinetic energy Ultrasound
and we can calculate home usage.
Can describe how energy is transferred between stores. Know when a wave travels through a substance particles move. Energy is transferred in the direction of the wave. Know what a physical model of a transverse wave shows.
Evaluate the consequences of using a resource to generate electricity.
Plan to investigate what affects the energy of an object.
Microphone Loudspeaker Waves
Transverse wave
2 Know what work done is and how machines make work easier.
Know how oxygen and carbon dioxide are transported around the body and the role that breathing has in this. Know that the body needs a balanced diet and how the body is adapted to break down food.
Can describe the structure of the periodic table in terms of reactivity and physical properties.
Can identify and name elements, mixture and compounds.
Compare work needed to move objects different distances.
Calculate work done.
Can explain how the parts of the lungs are adapted to their function.
Analyse diets to decide if they are heathy.
Use practical observations to predict the behaviour of an element in a group.
Use data to explain similarities and differences between elements. Work Lever Displacement Deformation Breathing Trachea Bronchi Bronchioles Alveoli Enzymes Carbohydrate Protein Lipid Physical Chemical Group Period Element Atom Molecule Compound Power Renewable Non-renewable Fossil fuels
3
Know what respiration is and the difference between aerobic and anaerobic respiration. Can describe how plants obtain food through photosynthesis Know what voltage, current and resistance are in relation to series and parallel circuits. Can describe current in an electrical circuit and know that charged objects affect each other.
Can investigate the effect of exercise on the body and explain the changes in terms of respiration.
Can draw and analyse graphs to show how the rate of photosynthesis is affected by changing conditions.
Can evaluate models of circuits used to explain resistance.
Can describe, using diagrams what happens when charged objects affect other charged objects. Aerobic respiration Anaerobic respiration Fermentation Photosynthesis Chlorophyll Potential difference Current Resistance Conductor Insulator Electrons Electrostatic force Field Subject: Science
Year AP Knowledge & Understanding Skills & Application Subject Specific Language 9 1 Know that during a chemical
reaction bonds are broken and new bonds are formed. This process releases and takes in energy.
Know how chemical changes occur particularly in
combustion and thermal decomposition reactions.
Can state the theory of natural selection.
Can describe biodiversity and how to avoid extinction.
Know that a current through a wire creates a magnetic field and this is an electromagnet. Can recognise that magnetic materials create magnetic
Analyse experimental data to identify exothermic and endothermic reactions. Use energy level diagrams to explain changes of state observed and predict if a reaction is endothermic or exothermic.
Predict the products of combustion and thermal decomposition reactions and show as word equations. Can use evidence to explain why a species has become extinct of adapted to changing conditions and use this to support evolutionary theories. Can suggest and evaluate ways of preserving biodiversity for future generations. Catalyst Exothermic Endothermic Chemical bond Reactant Product Conserved Natural selection Extinct Biodiversity Evolution Electromagnet Solenoid Core Magnetic force Permanent magnet Magnetic poles Equilibrium Newton Resultant Force Friction Contact force Natural resources Ore Extraction
fields. The stronger the magnet the greater the force.
Know that two like poles repel and unlike magnetic poles attract. Field lines always flow from north seeking to south seeking.
Know what happens to objects when forces are applied to an object.
Can state how carbon is recycled in the environment. Know what the greenhouse effect is, what greenhouse gases are and how it is occurring.
Can link extraction, re-use and recycling and can name some methods to extract metals.
Can investigate what factors affect electromagnet strength. Can explain how devices using electromagnets work.
Use field lines to show how direction and strength varies and use to predict patterns. Can convert information about the carbon cycle into a diagram.
Can evaluate claims related to the greenhouse effect and global warming.
Can follow a practical method to extract metals.
Suggest ways of reducing our environmental impact.
Recycling Electrolysis
