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KS3 Year 9
Year 9 Curriculum
| Year 9 Rotation 1 | |||
| Study topic | Knowledge and skills | Assessment | How to support your child |
| Biology – B9.1 Evolution | Students will cover the differences between species and how the variation between individuals within a species can be continuous or discontinuous as well as looking at ways to measure and graphically represent variation. This is enhanced to look at how natural selection is driven by the variation between species. The idea of how conservation methods can be used to maintain biodiversity and how gene banks preserve hereditary material. | Weekly knowledge organiser quiz Assessment 1 w/b 10/11/21 | Watch a documentary on evolution https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03bhszp Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. Visit Manchester Museum – From Aardvarks to Zebras, giant whales to microscopic single-celled animals, the Museum collection includes roughly one million preserved animals and plants. |
| Chemistry – C9.1 States of Matter and Mixtures | Students will extend their knowledge of separation techniques studied to include further examples such as distillation and chromatography. Separation techniques are applied to various practical/industrial methods, including fractional distillation on crude oil. | Weekly knowledge organiser quiz Assessment 1 w/b 10/11/21 | Carry out chromatography at home using skittles and paper. Place the skittle in the middle of the paper and ad a few drops of water. Watch as the dyes separate into the individual colours. Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. |
| Physics – P9.1 Heat Energy Transfer | Students will be introduced to the difference between internal (thermal) energy and temperature and look at the factors that affect the amount of energy stored in a heated substance. It also looks at energy transfer by radiation and explains conduction and convection in terms of the particle model of matter. | End of unit knowledge check T1 assessment | Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. |
| Year 9 Rotation 2 18/10/21-29/11/21 | |||
| Study topic | Knowledge and skills | Assessment | How to support your child |
| Biology – B9.2 Key concepts of Biology: Cells and Microscopes | Students will build on their previous work on cells and microscopes, developing their vocabulary to include the terms eukaryotic and prokaryotic, as well as looking at subcellular structures with microscopes. They will prepare a microscope slide and use a light microscope to examine a slide making drawings of plant and animal cells using a light microscope. | End of unit knowledge check T2 assessment | Watch an episode of the Hidden Kingdom. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m425d Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. |
| Chemistry- C9.2 Reactivity | Students will study the reactivity series and look at reactions of metals with water and acid. They will develop their understanding of displacement reactions and apply this to the extraction of metals using reduction with carbon and electrolysis. | End of unit knowledge check T2 assessment | Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. |
| Physics – 9.2 Key concepts of Physics: Motion | Students develop their understanding of motion by strengthening their knowledge of distance/time graphs and speed. Students will then look at ways of describing and representing with calculations of speed and acceleration and with velocity/time graphs. | End of unit knowledge check T2 assessment | Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. |
| Year 9 Rotation 3 | |||
| Study topic | Knowledge and skills | Assessment | How to support your child |
| Biology – B9.3 Key concepts: Enzymes and transport | Students will look at factors affecting the rate of enzymatic reactions and carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids and lipids as key biological molecules, using key ideas on the lock and key hypothesis. Students will also revisit the idea of food testing and the role of enzymes in digestion. Students will also explore how substances that are transported into and out of cells via diffusion, osmosis and active transport. | End of unit knowledge check E1 assessment | Add lemon juice to fish, watch the enzymes “cook” the fish. Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. |
| Chemistry – C9.3 Acids and Bases | Students will study acids, alkalis and neutralisation in terms of ions, which are also introduced for the first time. The reactions of acids with metals, oxides, hydroxides and carbonates are covered. Students will look to develop their equation work, using both word and symbol equations. | End of unit knowledge check E1 assessment | Use universal indicator paper (easily bought from the internet) to identify acids and alkalis in the home. Students can then practise using the pH scale to assign each substance a pH. Acid examples include: lemon juice, fizzy drinks Alkali examples include: soap, bleach (use with supervision) Neutral examples include: water Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. |
| Physics – P9.3 Key concepts: Forces and motion | Students will look at the link between force and motion. Newton’s Laws are introduced, which look at the forces acting on objects. This leads to a study of momentum including collisions and of car safety. | End of unit knowledge check E1 assessment | Take a look around your car, show you child what happens when you pull the seatbelt quickly. There is a small delay before the seatbelt locks. This is to reduce the force experienced by the passenger. Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. |
| Year 9 Rotation 4 | |||
| Study topic | Knowledge and skills | Assessment | How to support your child |
| Biology – B9.4 Key concepts: Cells and control | Students will explore how growth occurs in animals and plants through cell division and cell differentiation in animals and cell division, cell differentiation and elongation in plants including how percentile charts can be used to track growth. They look at the process of mitosis in detail and how cancer can develop. | End of unit knowledge check | Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. |
| Chemistry – C9.4 Key concepts: Atomic structure and the Periodic table | Students consider the structure of an atom in terms of sub-atomic particles and how this links to the Periodic Table. Students discuss the historical development of the periodic table, it links the atomic structure of the atoms of an element and to the element’s position in the periodic table. | End of unit knowledge check | Watch a documentary on the building blocks of the universe. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007vz5n Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. |
| Physics – P9.4 Key concepts: Energy and Efficiency | Students will study graphical representations of energy transfers using energy diagrams and Sankey diagrams. Underpinning this is the concept of conservation of energy. Students will also recap and build on their knowledge of renewable and non-renewable energy resources. | End of unit knowledge check | Look at energy ratings on washing machines and lightbulbs. Discuss how these reduce bills and make the house more efficient. Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. |
| Chemistry – C9.5 Key concepts of Chemistry: Structure and bonding | Students will build on their knowledge or chemical bonds to look more closely at covalent, ionic and metallic bonding. They will be introduced to dot and cross diagrams and their use to show bond formation. | End of unit knowledge check | Read an article together on the recent discoveries of bond formation. https://theprint.in/science/scientists-record-first-video-of-atoms-forming-and-breaking-chemical-bonds/357184/ Use the knowledge organiser page to secure learning by testing students on what they are learning. |