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GCSE Biology aims to give students opportunities to:
- Develop their interest in, and enthusiasm for, biology;
- Develop a critical approach to scientific evidence and methods;
- Acquire and apply skills, knowledge and understanding of how science works and its essential role in society;
- Acquire scientific skills, knowledge and understanding necessary for progression to further learning.
| B1 - Understanding ourselves |
B2 - Understanding our environment |
B3 - Living and growing |
- Fit for life
- What’s for lunch?
- Keeping healthy
- Keeping in touch
- Drugs and you
- Staying in balance
- Who am I?
- New genes for old
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- Ecology in our school grounds
- Grouping organisms
- The food factory
- Compete or die
- Adapt to fit
- Survival of the fittest
- Population out of control
- Sustainability
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- Molecules of life
- Diffusion
- Life blood
- Keep it moving
- Divide and rule
- Growing up
- Controlling plant growth
- More of the same
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| B4 - It’s a green world |
B5 - The living body |
B6 - Beyond the microscope |
- Who planted that there?
- Water, water everywhere
- Transport in plants
- Plants need minerals too
- Energy flow
- Farming
- Decay
- Recycling
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- In good shape
- The vital pump
- Running repairs
- Breath of life
- Waste disposal
- Life goes on
- New for old
- Size matters
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- Understanding bacteria
- Harmful micro-organisms
- Micro-organisms – factories for the future?
- Biofuels
- Life in soil
- Microscopic life in water
- Enzymes in action
- Genetic engineering
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Assessment
In each specification there are three units of assessment: two externally set and marked unit examinations, each testing three teaching modules, and one Skills Assessment Unit
| External Unit Exam to test teaching modules B1, B2, B5 |
External Unit Exam to test teaching modules B3, B4, B6 |
Skills Assessment Unit from Science or Additional Science |
| 60 minutes 33.3% |
60 minutes 33.3% |
- Can-do 13.3%
- Science in the news 20%
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