Year 8 · KS3 | 📄 Go to Unit Page
In this unit pupils explore the building blocks of life. They examine animal and plant cell structures and their functions, compare unicellular and multicellular organisms, learn how to observe cells using a light microscope, and investigate specialised cells.
Year 7 · KS3 | 📄 Go to Unit Page
In this unit pupils explore how plants make their own food through photosynthesis. They investigate the adaptations that allow plants to absorb light and exchange gases efficiently.
Year 9 · KS3 | 📄 Go to Unit Page
In this unit pupils explore how living things adapt to their environments, compete for resources, and change over time through natural selection and evolution. Fossil evidence is used to understand how species have changed across geological time scales.
Year 9 · KS3 | 📄 Go to Unit Page
In this unit pupils explore how living organisms release energy from food through aerobic and anaerobic respiration. They investigate the role of different substrates and examine practical experiments using yeast.