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GCSE Science identifies the activities and experiences students will come across in everyday life, and links these to scientific ideas and their implications for society. It provides the opportunity to acquire the scientific skills, knowledge and understanding necessary for progression to further learning.
| B1 - Understanding ourselves |
C1 - Carbon chemistry |
P1 - Energy for the home |
- 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
- Milk
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- Cooking
- Food additives
- Smells
- Designer polymers
- Making polymers
- Making crude oil useful
- Using carbon fuels
- Energy
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- Heating houses
- Keeping houses warm
- How insulation works
- Cooking with waves
- Infra-red signals
- Wireless signals
- Light
- Stable Earth
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| B2 - Understanding our environment |
C2 - Rocks and minerals |
P2 - Living for the future |
- 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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- Paints and pigments
- Construction materials
- Does the Earth move?
- Metals and alloys
- Cars for scrap
- Clean air
- Faster or slower
- Collecting energy from the Sun
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- Power station
- Nuclear radiations
- Our magnetic field
- Exploring our solar system
- Threats to Earth
- The big bang
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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, C1, P1 |
External Unit Exam to test teaching modules B2, C2, P2 |
Skills Assessment Unit: Can-do tasks and Science in the News study |
| 60 minutes 33.3% |
60 minutes 33.3% |
Can-do 13.3% Science in the news 20% |
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