Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School Year 13 Curriculum Overview
Subject
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Development AO2
Final piece and essay AO4
Stimulus and response: survival and response, receptors, control of heart rate, nervous coordination Required practical activity 10: animal responses (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.6.1-3.6.2)
Stimulus and response:, skeletal muscle contraction, homeostasis – principles, negative feedback, control of blood glucose concentration Required practical 11: glucose in ‘urine’ samples (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.6.3-3.6.4.1-2) Photosynthesis: lightRespiration: glycolysis and dependent and anaerobic respiration, independent reactions, Krebs cycle and electron limiting factors and transfer chain in aerobic agricultural practices respiration, respiratory Required practical substrates activities 7 (leaf pigment Required practical activity chromatography) and 8 9: rate of respiration in (dehydrogenase activity) yeast (AQA Biology specification (AQA Biology specification reference 3.5.1) reference 3.5.2) Energy and ecosystems: biomass, primary and secondary production, farming practices (AQA Biology specification reference 3.5.3) Decision making to improve human resources
Stimulus and response: homeostasis – control of blood water potential (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.6.4.3) Control of gene expression: mutation, totipotency (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.8.1, 3.8.2.1)
Analysing the strategic position of a business
Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies
Managing strategic change Kinetics Catalysis Period 3 Amines Mass spec. Acids and bases KW
Art
Biology
Business Studies
Chemistry
Complex ions Colorimetry Optical isomerism Carbonyl group Arrhenius equation Iodine clock
Ideal gas equations Redox titrations & calculations Acylation Benzene Kinetics & equilibria Required practicals
Energy and ecosystems: nutrient cycles (AQA Biology specification reference 3.5.4) Genetics, populations, evolution and ecosystems: inheritance (AQA Biology specification reference 3.7.1)
Summer Term
Artist AO1 Obs AO3 Development AO2 Control of gene expression: regulation of transcription and translation, gene expression and cancer, genome projects, gene technologies (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.8.2.2-3, 3.8.3, 3.8.4)
Controlled assessment AO4
Genetics, populations, evolution and ecosystems: population genetics, evolution and speciation, recap of succession and conservation (AQA Biology specification reference 3.7.2-3.7.4)
Revision
Choosing strategic direction
Revision and exam skills up to study leave
Revision
Metal aqua complexes IR spec. nmr spec. pH meters Buffers
Electrochemistry Hydrogen electrode Born-Haber Enthalpy and entropy Exam technique