115·Science · GCSE Biology
Year 11 Biology
Scheme of Work
Sixty-three pages completing the two-year course. Year 10 was the organism; this is the population — the genome, inheritance, selection, ecosystems, and feeding a growing population out of them. The remaining fifty-two of the subject content’s one hundred and forty-three statements are taught here, and every one is mapped to the phase that teaches it. Seventeen separate-only statements are marked, the fifth half-term teaches no new content so it can be spent on diagnosis and technique, and the tiering page carries the arithmetic most departments never see.
- 1aThe Genome: DNA, Genes and Gene Expression
- 1bInheritance, Variation and Evolution
- 2aEcosystems: Organisation, Cycling and Energy Transfer
- 2bBiodiversity, Food Security and Gene Technology
- 3aFinal Preparation: Diagnosis, Technique and the Whole Course
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.
Five half-termly units, and the fifth teaches nothing new. Every statement in the specification is discharged by the end of Spring 2 so the final half-term can be spent on diagnosis and examination technique rather than on content a student would have no time to consolidate.
Written to sit beside the Year 10 book. Three of the five units open with a diagnostic made of Year 10 recall rather than of new material, because what survived the summer is what actually decides how Year 11 goes — a class that cannot say what meiosis produces will not follow inheritance in November. A page of load-bearing joints between the two years names each dependency, and the revision unit uses it in reverse: to trace a Year 11 weakness back to where it originates.
Board-neutral, with the limits 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. AT6, field sampling, is the one apparatus criterion Year 10 cannot meet, and it is met here — across the two years all eight are covered.
- 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 taking a class to the examinations
- Extent 63 pages · 20 sections
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