Term 1
Year 10
AQA GCSE (9-1) Biology Two Year Scheme of Work This 2-Year Scheme of Work offers a flexible approach for KS4. The suggested timings are based on five lessons per fortnight (assuming a two-week timetable of three lessons one week and two lessons in the other) but can be tailored to suit the needs of a particular class or group of students. Lessons are assumed to be sessions of 4060 minutes. The teaching scheme is scheduled to finish in the second term of Year 11 to allow time for revision and GCSE examinations in the summer term. Please note that some of these lessons are shorter than others and therefore sometimes there are more than five lessons in a fortnight. The maths skills spreads are numbered as the last spread in a chapter but can be used at any appropriate point according to the needs of your students. Year Term Week Student Lesson title Lesson objectives AQA Lesson resources (on CD Collins Connect Book specificatio ROM) resources spread n reference number Homework quiz Explain how these factors can Slideshow be controlled. Video Evaluate the benefits of manipulating the environment to increase food production. 10 / 11 2.7 Key concept: 4.1.3.1 Worksheets 2.7.1, 2.7.2 and Quick starter Use concentration gradients to Diffusion in living 2.7.3; Practical sheet 2.7; Homework worksheet explain the direction of systems Technician’s notes 2.7 Homework quiz diffusion. Slideshow Apply the principles of diffusion Video to movement of different substances in plants. 10 / 11 2.8 Looking at Worksheet 2.8; Practical Quick starter Describe transpiration in plants. 4.2.3.1; stomata 4.2.3.2 sheet 2.8; Technician’s notes Homework worksheet Explain the structure and 2.8 Homework quiz function of stomata. Video Explain the relationship between transpiration and leaf structure. 10 / 11 2.9 Moving water 4.2.3.1; Worksheets 2.9.1, 2.9.2 and Quick starter Describe the structure and 4.2.3.2 2.9.3; Practical sheet 2.9; Homework worksheet function of xylem and roots. Technician’s notes 2.9 Homework quiz Describe how xylem and roots Video are adapted to absorb water. Explain why plants in flooded or waterlogged soil die. Explain how wilting occurs. 10 / 11 2.10 Investigating 4.2.3.2 Worksheet 2.10; Practical Quick starter Describe how transpiration is transpiration sheet 2.10; Technician’s Homework worksheet affected by different factors. notes 2.10 Homework quiz Explain the movement of water Slideshow in the xylem. 12 2.11 Moving sugar 4.2.3.2 Worksheet 2.11; Technician’s Quick starter Describe the movement of notes 2.11 Homework worksheet sugar in a plant as Homework quiz translocation. Explain how the structure of phloem is adapted to its function in the plant.
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