GCSE Biology - Year 10

Unit B1

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?

Unit B2

1. What are animals and plants built from?
2. How do dissolved substances get into and out of cells?
3. How do plants obtain the food they need to live and grow?
4. What happens to energy and biomass at each stage in a food chain?

GCSE Biology Revision Guide - Nelson Thornes

GCSE Bitesize Unit B1
GCSE Bitesize Units B2 and B3
GCSE Bitesize audio clips for Unit B1
GCSE Bitesize audio clips for Units B2 and B3
Biotopics
S-cool

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.