Course description.

Key Stage 3 Science is taught through a number of topics such as chemical patterns, forces and motion, energy and life processes.

Students are assessed at regular intervals throughout Key Stage 3 by their teachers. At the end of each topic students are given a test to measure their understanding of concepts, at the end of years 7 and 8 they have an examination and scientific investigations are assessed throughout the course. Year 9 students sit both a school based examination and Standard Assessment Tasks (SATs) at the end of the year.

There are four Attainment Targets in Science, these are:

AT1 Experimental and investigative Science

AT2 Life processes and living things

AT3 Materials and their properties

AT4 Physical processes

Learning Materials

Click below to view PowerPoint slideshows on each topic

Current and voltage

Energy in food

Mixtures and compounds

Fossils

Note. To view the above  files you will need to have one of the following installed on your computer:

Microsoft Powerpoint

Or

The Microsoft Powerpoint viewer (free download here)

Or

OpenOffice Impress  (free download here)