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Year 10 Biology
Scheme of Work

GCSE Biology Scheme of Work (SOW) — KS4 Year 10 PDF

Sixty-three pages, board-neutral, written for combined science and separate biology together. The combined content is a subset of the separate content, checked statement by statement against both DfE documents. The nineteen statements combined classes do not need are marked, so one book serves both routes. Ninety-one of the subject content’s one hundred and forty-three statements are taught here; the rest are Year 11. Six figures, six printable diagnostics, and student work shown beside the repair in every unit.

£5.99The Year 10 scheme: 6 half-termly units, 63 pages

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Both years: GCSE Biology scheme of work

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1aCell Biology: Structure, Division and Scale
1bBioenergetics: Enzymes, Respiration and Photosynthesis
2aTransport Systems: Exchange, Circulation and Plants
2bHealth and Disease: Pathogens, Defence and Medicines
3aCoordination and Control: The Nervous and Endocrine Systems
3bHomeostasis and Control in Plants

Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Phases rather than single lessons, because science is timetabled at around three hours a week.

Year 10 is the organism: how a living thing is built, powered, supplied, defended and controlled. Year 11 takes the population. That division is why cell biology opens the book and ecology does not appear in it at all.

Board-neutral, with one limit stated rather than buried: the content, the Foundation and Higher split, the mathematical skills and the apparatus and techniques are national. The named required practicals are set by each awarding organisation, so this book teaches the techniques those practicals are built from and names the apparatus criteria each unit meets.

Written to: The GCSE subject content for biology (DfE, DFE-00352-2014) and for combined science (DFE-00351-2014)
Intended for: heads of science, biology leads and every teacher who has to deliver it
Extent: 63 pages · 19 sections

The sequence

What this scheme of work covers, unit by unit

The 6 units of the Year 10 Biology Scheme of Work, in teaching order, with the term each one runs in and the question it is built to answer.

1a
Cell Biology: Structure, Division and Scale
Autumn 1 · approx. 7 weeks · September – October
If every cell in you came from one cell, why is a nerve cell not a liver cell?
1b
Bioenergetics: Enzymes, Respiration and Photosynthesis
Autumn 2 · approx. 7 weeks · November – December
A tree weighs several tonnes. Where did that mass come from?
2a
Transport Systems: Exchange, Circulation and Plants
Spring 1 · approx. 6 weeks · January – February
Why can a bacterium survive without a heart, and you cannot?
2b
Health and Disease: Pathogens, Defence and Medicines
Spring 2 · approx. 6 weeks · February – April
Smoking causes lung cancer. How do we know it is not just a coincidence?
3a
Coordination and Control: The Nervous and Endocrine Systems
Summer 1 · approx. 6 weeks · April – May
Why do you have two control systems instead of one good one?
3b
Homeostasis and Control in Plants
Summer 2 · approx. 6 weeks · June – July
Your blood sugar is never exactly right. Why is that the system working, not failing?