Subject KEY STAGE 3 SCIENCE

Year group Form 3

Christmas Term

Week Date Aims for Assessment Recommended

1 September 11
2 September 18
3 September 25
4 October 2
5 October 9
6 October 16
7 October 23
8 October 30
9 November 6
10 November 13
11 November 20
Extra Reading
9Aa: What causes environmental Odyssey Magazine.
variation? 9Ab How is inherited
variation caused? 9Ab Probability.
9Ac DNA. 9Ad How can genetic National Geographic.
information cause extinction? 9Ae
What is Darwin’s theory of
evolution?
9Ae How are convincing New Scientist.
arguments made? 9Ae Can we
bring extinct animals back to life?
9Ea What makes ceramics
useful?
9Eb What makes polymers Other Key Stage 3
special? 9Eb How are scientific books.
discoveries checked? 9Ec How
are composite materials used?
9Ed What are the problems of Library books.
making and using materials? 9Ed
How can you recognise biased
language? 9Ee Which materials
should be recycled?
Assessment.
9Ee What unforeseen problems
have materials caused? 9Ia How
do forces affect objects and the
way they move?
Half term
9Ib Which energy resources can
be used to move things? 9Ib How
is writing suited to its purpose and
audience? 9Ic How do we
calculate speed?
9Ic How do we draw and interpret
distance-time graphs? 9Id How
can you increase the size of a
force? 9Ie What other simple
machines make it easier to move
things?
9Ie What transport ideas did not
last? 9Ba What chemical
reactions happen in plants? 9Bb
How are plants adapted for
getting what they need?
9Bc Why do plants make lipids,
carbohydrates and proteins? 9Bc
 How can we emphasise points
clearly? 9Bd How do farmers
make sure their crops grow well?
12 November 27 9Be What problems can farming
cause? 9Be What are bias and
validity? 9Fa How does an
explosion happen?
13 December 4 9Fa What are active and passive
voices? 9Fb How do you compare
the reactivity of metals? 9Fc How
do we get energy from a chemical
reaction?
14 December 11 School exams.

Easter Term

Week Date Aims for Assessment Recommended

Extra Reading
1 January 8 9Fc How do we work out the
percentage loss or gain in mass?
9Fd How can we use the
reactivity series? 9Fe How do we
get metals from their ores?
2 January 15 9Fe Should explosives be
banned? 9Ja What kinds of force
field are there? 9Ja How can we
write cohesive text?
3 January 22 9Jb What causes static
electricity? 9Jc How can current
electricity be controlled? 9Jd How
can we calculate the resistance of
a component?
4 January 29 9Jd How and why do we round
numbers in science? 9Je How
can electricity produce
magnetism? 9Je What are the
risks of space flight?
5 February 5 Assessment.
9Ca What are cells and how are
they organised? 9Cb How do the
digestive and gas exchange
systems work?
6 February 12 Half term
7 February 19 9Cc How do mammals and
flowering plants reproduce? 9Cd
How do animals and plants
depend on one another? 9Ce
Why do some species become
extinct and others evolve?
8 February 26 9C1 Animal smuggling. 9C2
Enzyme investigation. 9C3 Teeth.
9 March 5 9Ga How do the different ways of
separating mixtures work? 9Gb
What happens in a chemical
reaction? 9Gc What are the
properties of different materials?
10 March 12 9Gd Why is the periodic table
useful? 9Ge How do the Earth
and the atmosphere change? 9G1
Carbon capture. 9G2 Electrolysis
investigation.
11 March 19 9Ka How are models used in
science? 9Kb How is energy
stored and transferred? 9Kc What
can forces do?
12 March 26 Assessment. 9Kd What are
waves and force fields?

Summer Term

Week Date Aims for Assessment Recommended

Extra Reading
1 April 23 9Ke How can machines make it
easier to move things? 9K1 Ears
and eyes. 9K2 Going faster.
2 April 30 9K3 Speed limits. 9Da How are
viruses linked to disease? 9Db
How are the body’s responses
controlled?
3 May 7 9Dc How are new medicines
tested to see that they are safe?
9Dc What do the median and
quartiles of a set of data tell us?
9Dd How can we estimate
abundance?
4 May 14 9De Why is surface area:volume
ratio important? 9De How can
infectious diseases cause deaths
across the world? 9Ha Why are
ions important in chemistry? 9Hb
What happens to energy in
physical and chemical changes?
5 May 21 Assessment.
9Hc What controls the rate of a
reaction?
6 May 28 Half term
7 June 4 9Hd How are symbol equations
used and balanced? 9Hd How is
standard form used? 9He What is
a dynamic equilibrium?
8 June 11 9La How do differences make
things happen? 9Lb How is the
 idea of a field used in Physics?
9Lb How do you write ‘long
answers’ to exam questions?
9 June 18 9Lc How are causes linked to
effects? 9Ld How can variables
be related mathematically? 9Ld
What kind of information can we
obtain from graphs? 9Le How are
models used in science?
10 June 25 School exams.