Subject Overview

Year 10

Month

Content

August / September

 

Man and his Environment

·         Water cycle, Nitrogen cycle, Carbon cycle

·         Pollution

·         Conservation

·         Evolution

 

October

Holiday 1wk

Biotechnology

·         DNA and genetic code

·         Genetic Engineering

 

 

 

November
 

Coordinated Control and Disease

·         Nervous System

·         Hormones

·         Behaviour

 

 

December

Holiday 1wk

·         Health and hygiene

·         STDs

·         Drugs

·         Contraceptives

·         Alcohol

Holiday 1wk January

 

 

Forces

·         Boyle and Hooke’s law

·         Newton

 

 

·        Potential/Kinetic energy

·        Machines and Engines

 

February

Holiday 1wk

Applications of Electronics

·         Electromagnetic radiation

·         Uses in medicine

 

·         Electromagnetism

·         Uses in the food industry

 

March

 

Chemical Industry

·         Molarity and Avagadro

·         Manmade Vs Natural

·         Reactivity

·         Extraction of metals

·         Properties of Metals and Nonmetals

Holiday 1wk

April

 

Organic Chemistry

·         Oils

·         Polymers

·         Nomenclature

·         Fossil Fuels

·         Simple organic molecules

 

May

 

Consumer Chemistry

·         Project Research on own topic

·         For example – Food industry, Medicine, Agriculture etc

 

June

Holidays

Revision and Consolidation