Courses - Key Stage 3 - Science
Students should develop the intellectual and practical skills to allow them to explore the world of Science and to develop a fuller understanding of scientific phenomena, the nature of the theories explaining these, and the procedures of scientific investigation. In Years 7, 8 and 9, students will continue to develop knowledge and understanding in the following areas, using core textbooks, worksheets and extra reference resources:
Experimental and Investigative Science
- use scientific knowledge and their own ideas to form investigations
- select equipment and carry out experiments, isolating and changing variables
- record evidence clearly and appropriately
- interpret results and evaluate scientific evidence
- cells as the basis of living things, inheritance and evolution
- humans as organisms - major systems and organs
- green plants as organisms - nutrition, reproduction and respiration
- classifications of species and reasons for variations within groups
- habitats and how plants and animals adapt to them, populations and human influences with ecosystems
- differences between solids, liquids and gases
- properties, classification and structure of materials
- physical changes in different materials
- chemical changes and reactions in different materials
- geological changes caused by physical and chemical processes
- reactions of metals, acids, and bases
- electricity and magnetism - charges, fields, circuits
- energy resources and energy transfer
- forces and linear motion, rotation and pressure
- properties and behaviour of light in different conditions
- properties and behaviour of sound and vibration
- the solar system and the Earth’s place in it
- energy resources and the conservation of energy