Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School Year 13 Curriculum Overview
Subject
Autumn Term Development AO2
Spring Term Final piece and essay AO4
Artist AO1 Obs AO3 Development AO2
Controlled assessment AO4
Stimulus and response:, control of heart rate, nervous coordination, skeletal muscle contraction, (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.6.2-3.6.3)
Stimulus and response: homeostasis –principles, negative feedback, control of blood glucose concentration, control of blood water potential Required practical 11: glucose in ‘urine’ samples (AQA Biology specification reference:3.6.4)
Control of gene expression: mutation, totipotency, regulation of transcription and translation, gene expression and cancer, genome projects, gene technologies (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.8.1-3.8.4)
Control of gene expression: uses of gene technologies (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.8.4)
Photosynthesis: lightdependent and independent reactions, limiting factors and agricultural practices Required practical activity 8 (dehydrogenase activity) (AQA Biology specification reference 3.5.1)
Energy and ecosystems: biomass, primary and secondary production, farming practices, nutrient cycles (AQA Biology specification reference 3.5.3)
Genetics, populations, evolution and ecosystems: inheritance, population genetics (AQA Biology specification reference 3.7.1-3.7.2)
Genetics, populations, evolution and ecosystems: evolution and speciation (AQA Biology specification reference 3.7.3-3.7.4)
Art Populations in ecosystems: succession, transect sampling, Spearman rank correlation coefficient (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.7.4)
Biology
Stimulus and response: survival and response, receptors Required practical activity 10: animal responses (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.6.1) Populations in ecosystems: ecological terms, biotic and abiotic factors, random sampling, t-test, carrying capacity, competition, predation, conservation of habitats, mark-releaserecapture. Required practical activity 12: fieldwork (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.7.4) Photosynthesis:
Summer Term
Respiration: glycolysis and anaerobic respiration, Krebs cycle and electron transfer chain in aerobic