GCSE Science A - Year 10

Biology

1. How do human bodies respond to changes inside them and to their environment?
2. What can we do to keep our bodies healthy?
3. How do we use/abuse medical and recreational drugs?
4. What causes infectious diseases and how can our bodies defend themselves against them?
5. What determines where particular species live and how many of them there are?
6. Why are individuals of the same species different from each other? What new methods do we have for producing plants and animals with the characteristics we prefer?
7. Why have some species of plants and animals died out? How do new species of plants and animals develop?
8. How do humans affect the environment?

Chemistry

1. How do rocks provide building materials?
2. How do rocks provide metals and how are metals used?
3. How do we get fuels from crude oil?
4. How are polymers and ethanol made from oil?
5. How can plant oils be used?
6. What are the changes in the Earth and its atmosphere?

Physics

1. How is heat (thermal energy) transferred and what factors affect the rate at which heat is transferred?
2. What is meant by the efficient use of energy?
3. Why are electrical devices so useful?
4. How should we generate the electricity we need?
5. What are the uses and hazards of the waves that form the electromagnetic spectrum?
6. What are the uses and dangers of emissions from radioactive substances?
7. What do we know about the origins of the Universe and how it continues to change?

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A learning homework will be set each week.

The coursework requirement for this course is covered by in class Investigative Skills Assignments. Students design and carry out an investigation. They produce a results table and a graph that are marked and then sit a 45 minute exam paper about their investigation and related data. These are internally assessed and moderated by the exam board.