KS4 Combined Science Curriculum Map 2024 - 2025 - Year 10

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KS4 Combined Science curriculum map for Year 10, organized by term with planned assessments, core topics, subject skills, and personal development goals. Autumn 1 covers organisation and the digestive system, photosynthesis and respiration, and structure and bonding, linking learning to healthy lifestyles and efficient digestion. Autumn 2 adds energy conservation and dissipation, communicable diseases, preventing and treating disease, and chemical calculations, emphasizing practical work, data interpretation, and ethical considerations in medical research. Learning progression targets balancing equations, safe investigations, and applying scientific reasoning to real-world contexts.

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Autumn 1

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Autumn 2

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Curriculum Map 2024 – 2025 – COMBINED SCIENCE Combined Science: Year 10 | Term | Assessments | Topics | Skills | Personal Development | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Autumn 1 | Tests:
One 45 mark test at the end of each topic listed below:
B3 Organisation and the Digestive System:
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B8 Photosynthesis
B9 Respiration:
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C3 Structure and Bonding:
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Tissues and Organs, The Human Digestive System, Chemistry of Food, Catalysts and Enzymes, Factors
Affecting Enzyme Action, How the Digestive System Works, Making Digestion Efficient | Investigative skills: Food tests
Drawing diagrams to show levels of organisation
Analysing
graphs of rates | The characteristics and evidence of what constitutes a healthy lifestyle and maintaining a healthy weight (includingthe links between an inactive lifestyle and ill health, such as cancer and cardio-vascular ill health)
How to maintain healthy eating and the links between a poor diet and health risks, including tooth decay and cancer | | | | B8 Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis, The rate of Photosynthesis, How Plants use Glucose, Making the Most of Photosynthesis | Balancing equations
Practical skills: rate of photosynthesis | Students to examine the implications of farmers using carbon dioxide made in the burning of fossil fuels to increase yields of crops and what effect this may have on the environment. | | | | B9 Respiration
Aerobic Respiration, The Response the Exercise, Anaerobic Exercise, Metabolism and the Liver | Balancing
equations | The importance of respiration to life and how our bodies respond to exercise. | | | | C3 Structure and Bonding
States of Matter, Atoms into Ions, Ionic Bonding & Giant Ionic Structures, Covalent Bonding, Simple Molecular and Giant Covalent Structures, Fullerenes and Graphene, Metallic Bonding and Giant Metallic Structures | Using andrearranging formula, safely carrying out practical work | | | Autumn 2 | Tests:
One 45 mark test at the end of each topic listed below:
B5
Communicable Diseases:
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B6 Preventing and Treating Disease:
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Changes in Energy Stores, Conservation of Energy, Energy and Work, Gravitational and Potential Energy Stores, Kinetic and Elastic Energy Stores, Energy Dissipation, Energy and Efficiency, Electrical Appliances, Energy and Power | Using and
rearranging formulae | An appreciation that there is the same amount of energy in the Universe now compared to when it began and into the future. | | | | B5 Communicable Diseases
Health and Disease, Pathogens and Disease, Preventing Infections, Viral and Bacterial Diseases, Diseases caused by Fungi and Protists, Human Defence Responses | Interpreting data from tablesand graphs | An understanding of how diseases are caused, spread and how to prevent them. | | | es/zxcmk2p/revision/1
B8
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P1Conservation and Dissipation of Energy:
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C4 Chemical Calculations:
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FAQs

How are assessments planned in this KS4 Combined Science curriculum map for Year 10?

Each listed topic includes a 45-mark test at the end of the topic during each term. The map also specifies which topics those tests correspond to.

Which major topic areas are covered in Autumn 1?

Autumn 1 includes B3 Organisation and the Digestive System, B8 Photosynthesis, B9 Respiration, and C3 Structure and Bonding. It also includes associated skills such as investigative work and interpreting data through diagrams and graphs.

What personal development themes are highlighted across the terms?

Students focus on healthy lifestyle and diet links to health risks, implications for farmers using carbon dioxide to increase yields, exercise responses, and ethical considerations in medical research and vaccination/community health.

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