Year 7
Key Questions/Concepts
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What is a hazard?
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How can I ask a scientific question?
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What is the best way to record results?
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What methods can I used to analyse results from investigations?
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How do I communicate what my results show?
Timeframe
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September
Key Vocabulary
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Word/phrase |
Definition |
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Hazard |
A situation that may cause damage or injury |
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Observation |
Information gathered during an investigation |
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Hypothesis |
A question that you can test that includes a 'scientific idea' |
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Variable |
Anything that could change during a scientific investigation |
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Conclusion |
What you have found out during an investigation |
Wider Reading
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Kerboodle Textbook: Activate 1, pg 2 - 9
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Century Tech: Year 7 Science Course: Introduction to Science
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Before The World Was Ready: Stories of Daring Genius in Science
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The Science Book - DK Books
Key Questions/Concepts
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What do forces do?
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How do you measure forces?
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How do forces affect how an object moves?
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How do you calculate speed?
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What is the difference between mass & weight?
Timeframe
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September - October
Key Vocabulary
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Word/phrase |
Definition |
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Resultant force |
The single force that can replace all the forces aciting on an object and have the same effect |
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Speed |
The distance covered in a given time |
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Acceleration |
How quickly speed increases |
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Mass |
The amount of "stuff" in an object. Measured in kilograms (kg) |
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Weight |
The force of gravity on an object. Measured in Newtons (N) |
Wider Reading
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Kerboodle Textbook: Activate 1, pg 12 - 23
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Century Tech: Year 7 Science Course: Forces
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
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Horrible Science: Fatal Forces
Key Questions/Concepts
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What are the different energy stores?
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What are the different energy pathways?
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What is efficiency?
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What information does a Sankey diagram give us?
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How can we calculate efficiency?
Timeframe
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November
Key Vocabulary
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Word/phrase |
Definition |
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Energy store |
The different ways in which energy can be stored, including chemcial, kinetic, gravitational potential, elastic potential and thermal stores |
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Energy pathway |
The process by which energy can be transferred from one store to another - as one store empties, another store fills |
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Energy resource |
Something with stored energy that can be released in a useful way |
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Efficiency |
The proportion of the energy supplied that is transferred in useful ways |
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Dissipation |
Becoming spread out wastefully |
Wider Reading
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Kerboodle Textbook: Activate 1, pg 40 - 51
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Century Tech: Year 7 Science Course: Energy
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Richard Hammond's Blast Lab - Episode 7
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Horrible Science: Killer Energy
Key Questions/Concepts
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What are the different states of matter?
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What happens when a substance changes state?
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What is the process of diffusion?
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How does density affect an object?
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How can we measure and calculate density?
Timeframe
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December
Key Vocabulary
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Word/phrase |
Definition |
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Density |
The mass of a material in a certain volume |
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Evapouration |
The change of state from liquid to gas that occurs when particles leave the surface of the liquid only |
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Boiling |
The change of state from liquid to gas that occurs when buble of gas of the substance form throughout the liquid |
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States of matter |
The three forms in which a substance can exist - solid, liquid & gas |
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Diffusion |
The process by which particles in liquids or gases spread out through random movement |
Wider Reading
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Kerboodle Textbook: Activate 1, pg 76 - 89
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Century Tech: Year 7 Science Course: Matter
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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Key Questions/Concepts
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What are elements and compounds?
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How can we name different compounds?
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What happens in a chemical reaction?
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What are oxidation reactions?
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What are thermal decomposition reactions?
Timeframe
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January
Key Vocabulary
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Word/phrase |
Definition |
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Element |
A substance that cannot be broken down into other substances |
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Compound |
Substances made up of two or more elements chemically joined together |
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Chemical Reaction |
A change in which a new substance is formed. In a chemcial reaction, atoms are rearranged and joined together differently |
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Oxidation |
A chemcial reaction in which a substance combined with oxygen |
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Thermal Decomposition |
A chemical reaction in which a compound breaks down on heating for form more than one product |
Wider Reading
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Kerboodle Textbook: Activate 1, pg 92 - 93
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Kerboodle Textbook: Activate 2, pg 88 - 95
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Century Tech: Year 7 Science Course: Chemical Reactions
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The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe, Theodore Gray
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The Kitchen Science Cookbook by Dr Michelle Dickinson
Key Questions/Concepts
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What do animal and plant cells contain?
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What happens during photosynthesis?
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What happens during respiration?
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Why are some cells different to others?
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How do you use a microscope?
Timeframe
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February
Key Vocabulary
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Word/phrase |
Definition |
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Cell |
The smallest functional unit of a living organism. It contains organelles that carry out life processes |
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Photosynthesis |
The process plants and algae use to make glucose using energy from sunlight |
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Chloroplasts |
An organelle found in plant cells that absorbs the light energy needed for photosynthesis |
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Respiration |
A chemical reaction where glucose is converted to water and carbon dioxide, releasing energy |
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Mitochondria |
An organelle found in all cells where the process of respiration occurs |
Wider Reading
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Kerboodle Textbook: Activate 1, pg 168 - 171
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Kerboodle Textbook: Activate 2, pg 144 -159
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Century Tech: Year 7 Science Course: Biological Processes
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Rebugging the Plant by Vicki Hird & Gillian Burke
Key Questions/Concepts
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Why do we get electric shocks?
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What is current?
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What is voltage?
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What is resistance?
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Which materials are conductors or insulators?
Timeframe
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March
Key Vocabulary
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Word/phrase |
Definition |
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Potential difference |
The amount of energy shifted from the power source to the moving charge, or from the charge to the circuit components |
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Resistance |
A property of a component, making it difficut for chage to pass through it |
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Current |
The flow of electic charge, usually electrons |
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Series circuit |
A circuit where all the components are in the same loop |
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Parallel circuit |
A circuit where some components are in separate loops |
Wider Reading
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Kerboodle Textbook: Activate 1, pg 26 - 39
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Century Tech: Year 7 Science Course: Electricity
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Horrible Science: Shocking Electricity
Key Questions/Concepts
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What organs are there in the human body?
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How does the digestive system work?
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What happens when we breathe in and out?
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How does the heart work?
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What is the function of blood?
Timeframe
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April - May
Key Vocabulary
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Word/phrase |
Definition |
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Organ |
Groups of different tissues working together to carry out a function |
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Organ system |
A group of organs working together to perform a function |
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Digestion |
The process where large insoluble food particles are broken down into small, soluble molecules |
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Gas exchange |
The process in the lungs where oxygen enters the blood and carbon dioxide leaves the blood |
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Haemoglobin |
A red substance that carries oxygen around the body in the red blood cells |
Wider Reading
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Kerboodle Textbook: Activate 2, pg 120 - 143
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Century Tech: Year 7 Science Course: Human Organ Systems
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Why Does Asparagus Make Your Pee Smell? By Andy Brumming
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Horrible Science: Disgusting Digestion
Key Questions/Concepts
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What makes a substance pure?
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What is a solution?
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What are the different methods of separating substances?
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Which separating technique should we use?
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How is water made potable?
Timeframe
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June
Key Vocabulary
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Word/phrase |
Definition |
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Pure |
A single material which no other substances mixed with it |
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Soluble |
A substance that can dissolve in a solvent |
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Insoluble |
A substance that cannot dissolve in a solvent |
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Solution |
A mixture of a solute dissolved in a solvent |
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Potable |
Water that is safe to drink |
Wider Reading
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Kerboodle Textbook: Activate 1, pg 94 - 107
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Century Tech: Year 7 Science Course: Separation Techniques
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Utterly Jarvellous by Dr Sai Pathmanathan
Key Questions/Concepts
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What is conduction?
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What is convection?
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What is radiation?
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What happens when a substance cools down?
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What happens when a substance heats up?
Timeframe
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June - July
Key Vocabulary
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Word/phrase |
Definition |
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Conduction |
Transfer of thermal energy by the vibration of particles |
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Convection |
Transfer of thermal energy when particles in a heated fluid rise |
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Radiation |
The transfer of energy as a wave |
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Temperature |
A measure of measure of the motion and energy of the particles |
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Thermal energy store |
The store containing energy due to the vibration or movement of particles in a substance |
Wider Reading
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Kerboodle Textbook: Activate 2, pg 48 - 53
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Century Tech: Year 7 Science Course: Heat Transfer
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Future Friend by David Baddiel
