Teaching

Unit order Resources Syllabus Assessment Suggested trips

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Throughout the year. We will be working scientifically: Models and representations (TWSm), Scientific inquiry: purpose and planning (TWSp), Carrying out scientific inquiry (TWSc), Scientific inquiry: analysis, evaluation, and conclusions
(TWSa), Science in Context (SIC).
7SIC.01 Discuss how scientific knowledge is developed through collective understanding and scrutiny over time.
7SIC.02 Describe how science is applied across societies and industries, and in research.
7SIC.03 Evaluate issues that involve and/or require scientific understanding.
7SIC.04 Describe how people develop and use scientific understanding, as individuals and through collaboration, e.g., through peer review.
7SIC.05 DiscussBiology
how the uses of science can have a global environmental impact.
structure and function 8Bs.01 Identify ball-and-socket and hinge joints and explain how antagonistic muscles move the bones at a hinge joint.
(Bs) 8Bs.02 Describe the components of blood and their functions (limited to red blood cells transporting oxygen, white Groupwork:
blood cells protecting against pathogens, and plasma transporting blood cells, nutrients, and CO2). Make a poster connecting
8Bs.03 Describe how the structure of the human respiratory system is related to its function of gas exchange (in terms Respiration/Blood/Joints
of lung structure and the action of the diaphragm and intercostal muscles) and understand the difference between
Chemistry: breathing and respiration.
Materials and their structure 8Bs.04 Describe the diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide between blood and the air in the lungs. Presentations of charges in an
(Cm) atom and Rutherford models

Experiments 8Cm.01 Describe the Rutherford model of the structure of an atom.

8Cm.02 Know that electrons have a negative charge, protons have a positive, and neutrons have no. Task 2-4 Interpretation
Discussions Atom history
Aug - Oct 8Cm.03 Know that the electrostatic attraction between positive and negative charge is what holds together atoms.
Physics: Group work Rutherford experiment
Worksheets 8Cm.04 Know that purity is a way to describe how much of a specific chemical is in a mixture.
Forces and energy (Pf)
8Pf.01 Calculate speed (speed = distance / time).
8Pf.02 Interpret and draw simple distance/time graphs.
8Pf.03 Describe the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on motion. Experiments
8Pf.04 Identify and calculate turning forces (moment = force x distance).
8Pf.05 Explain that pressure is caused by the action of a force, exerted by a substance, on an area (pressure =
force/area). Assessment point 1: Baseline
8Pf.06 Use particle theory to explain pressures in gases and liquids (qualitative only). test
8Pf.07 Describe the diffusion of gases and liquids as the intermingling of substances by the movement of particles.
Autumn break
Oct - Dec Biology: Experiments 8Bp.01 Identify the constituents of a balanced diet for humans including protein, carbohydrates, fats and oils, water, Pamphlets on diet, growth, Experimentarium
Life processes (Bp) Discussions minerals (limited to calcium and iron), and vitamins (limited to A, C, and D), and describe the functions of these and well-being
Group work nutrients.
8Bp.02 Understand that carbohydrates and fats can be used as a store of energy in animals, and animals consume food
to obtain energy and nutrients.
8Bp.03 Discuss how human growth, development, and health can be affected by lifestyle, including diet and smoking.
Chemistry: 8Bp.04 Know that aerobic respiration occurs in the mitochondria of plant and animal cells and gives a controlled Experiments
Properties of materials (Cp) release of energy.
8Bp.05 Know and use the summary word equation for aerobic respiration (glucose + oxygen = carbon dioxide + water).

8Cp.01 Understand that the concentration of a solution relates to how many particles of the solute are present in the
volume of the solvent. Assessment point 2: End of
8Cp.02 Describe how paper chromatography can be used to separate and identify substances in a sample. unit assessments

Physics: 8Ps.01 Describe reflection at a plane surface and use the law of reflection.
Light and Sound (Ps) 8Ps.02 Describe the refraction of light at the boundary between air and glass or air and water in terms of change of
Experiments
 speed.
8Ps.03 Know that white light is made of many colors and this can be shown through the dispersion of white light, using
a prism.
8Ps.04 Describe how colors of light can be added, subtracted, absorbed, and reflected.
Christmas break

8Pe.01 Describe a magnetic field and understand that it surrounds a magnet and exerts a force on other magnetic
Physics: Assessment point 3:
fields.
Jan - Feb Electricity and magnetism (Pe) Progression test in Jan (covers
8Pe.02 Describe how to make an electromagnet and know that electromagnets have many applications.
units from Sep-Dec) ???
8Pe.03 Investigate factors that change the strength of an electromagnet.

Winter break
8ESp.01 Know that the reason the Earth has a magnetic field is that the core acts as a magnet.
Earth and Space
8ESp.02 Identify renewable resources (including wind, tidal and solar power, and bioplastics) and non-renewable
Planet Earth (ESp)
resources (including fossil fuels) and describe how humans use them.
Cycles on Earth (Esc)
Earth in space (ESs)
8ESc.01 Understand that there is evidence that the Earth's climate exists in a cycle between warm periods and ice
Research and presentations
ages, and the cycle takes place over long time periods.
8ESc.02 Understand that the Earth's climate can change due to atmospheric change.
8ESc.03 Describe the difference between climate and weather.
Planetarium
8ESs.01 Describe a galaxy in terms of stellar dust and gas, stars and planetary systems.
8ESs.02 Describe asteroids as rocks, smaller than planets, and describe their formation from rocks left over from the
Mar - Apr
formation of a planetary system.

8Cc.01 Use word equations to describe reactions.

Chemistry: Experiments
8Cc.02 Know that some processes and reactions are endothermic or exothermic, and this can be identified by
Changes to materials (Cc)
temperature change.
Assessment point 4: End of
8Cc.03 Describe the reactivity of metals (limited to sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, copper, gold,
unit assessments
and silver) with oxygen, water, and dilute acids.
8Cc.04 Know that reactions do not always lead to a single pure product and that sometimes a reaction will produce an
impure mixture of products.
8Cc.05 Describe how the solubility of different salts varies with temperature.
8Cc.06 Understand that some substances are generally unreactive and can be described as inert.
Easter break

8Be.01 Identify different ecosystems on the Earth, recognizing the variety of habitats that exist within an ecosystem. Assessment point 5:
Biology:
June 8Be.02 Describe the impact of the bioaccumulation of toxic substances on an ecosystem. Progression test in May ??
Ecosystem (Be)
8Be.03 Describe how a new and/or invasive species can affect other organisms and an ecosystem. (covers units from Aug -May)