122·Science · A Level
A Level Sciences
Scheme of Work
A Level Science Scheme of Work — All Three Sciences
Forty-four pages covering biology, chemistry and physics together, because the DfE publishes one subject content document for all three. What they do not share is the mathematical demand — at least 10 per cent, 20 per cent and 40 per cent of the assessment — so it is diagnosed by discipline in Week 1 rather than taught as one shared lesson. The twelve practical activities are scheduled across the two years with technician lead times, and practical skills are prepared for as written-paper marks as well as for the endorsement.
- 1aFoundations: Quantities, Uncertainty, and the Mathematics Inside Science
- 1bCore Content: Teaching the AS Subset So It Survives Year 13
- 31c Working Scientifically: Data, Evidence and the Endorsement at Half Way
- 2aThe A Level Extension: Complicating the Models
- 2bCompleting the Course: the Last Content, the Last Practical, and the Endorsement Signed Off
- 62c Synoptic Fluency: Diagnosis, Application and the Examinations
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Every unit carries the teaching the three disciplines share and then names what each one does with it, so a single-subject teacher reads their own row and a combined team can plan the year together.
The practical endorsement is treated as a two-year accumulation rather than a task: nine of the twelve activities fall in Year 12, the technique log is audited three times, and the folder is read by a stranger in January rather than assembled in May.
Nothing in this scheme is a risk assessment. Every activity must be checked against your own employer's model — CLEAPSS, or SSERC in Scotland — in its current version before it runs.
- Written to The DfE subject content for AS and A level science (biology, chemistry, physics and psychology)
- Intended for heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent 44 pages · 15 sections
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