Specifications that use this resource:
Student progress checklist
Downloadable checklists to help you track your students' work during their KS3 science studies.
There is a checklist for each topic within the syllabus, and each checklist provides tick boxes for all the objectives in that topic. The checklists are flexible. Use them to:
- ensure your lessons are covering the right content
- track progress through the content
- check understanding of the content
- let your students know what's expected of them by the end of each topic.
Enquiry processes
- Analyse patterns
- Discuss limitations
- Draw conclusions
- Present data
- Communicate ideas
- Construct explanations
- Critique claims
- Justify opinions
- Collect data
- Devise questions
- Plan variables
- Test hypotheses
- Estimate risks
- Examine consequences
- Review theories
- Interrogate sources
Subject content
| Part 1 Taught in year 7 or year 7/8* | Part 2 Taught in year 8 or year 8/9* | |
|---|---|---|
Forces | ||
Electromagnets | ||
Energy | ||
Waves | ||
Matter | ||
Reactions | ||
Earth | ||
Organisms | ||
Eco-system | ||
Genes |
*Suggested teaching: each part should be taught over a minimum period of one year.