Year 8 Curriculum Handbook
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Cycle 1<br />
BIG QUESTION<br />
How does Biology explain why we don’t all look<br />
the same ?<br />
B2 Health and Lifestyle<br />
• Nutrients, food tests, unhealthy diet<br />
• Digestive system, bacteria and enzymes in<br />
digestion<br />
• Drugs, alcohol, smoking<br />
B2 Ecosystems processes<br />
• Photosynthesis, leaves, plant minerals<br />
• Chemosynthesis, aerobic and anaerobic<br />
respiration<br />
• Food chains and webs, disruption to food<br />
chains and webs, ecosystems<br />
B2 Adaptation and Inheritance<br />
• Competition and adaptation<br />
• Adapting to change<br />
• Variation, continuous and discontinuous<br />
• Inheritance<br />
• Natural Selection, extinction<br />
<strong>Year</strong> 8 Science Overview<br />
Cycle 2<br />
BIG QUESTION<br />
How does Chemistry help us understand the origins of<br />
planet Earth?<br />
C2 The Periodic Table<br />
• Metals and non metals<br />
• Groups and periods<br />
• The elements of Group 1, 7 and 0<br />
C2 Separation techniques<br />
• Mixtures, Solutions, solubility<br />
• Filtration, Evaporation and distillation<br />
• Chromatography<br />
C2 Metals and acids<br />
• Acids and metals<br />
• Metals and oxygen, metals and water, metal<br />
displacement reactions<br />
• Extracting metals<br />
• Ceramics, composites, polymers<br />
C2 The Earth<br />
• The Earth and its atmosphere<br />
• Sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks<br />
• The rock cycle, The carbon cycle<br />
• Climate change, recycling
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