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Please remember that in mainstream school in year 7-9 you would usually have 3 hours of science + homework. This is needed so that you are prepared enough for Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) in year 10.

Some of hub 2 are curently in year 9 and need to be ready to start GCSE level work from now. It is essential to keep up and do as much as you can so that you are ready for this, or it will not be possible.

I would highly recommend that year 9s sign up to Cognito and start using it regularly: https://cognitoedu.org/home

Useful / interesting links:

If you want to pass your GCSE science read this:

  • GCSE preparation starts in year 7, not year 10. You need to finish Key Stage 3 before you can start KS4.
  • After Maths & English, Science GCSEs are the most important for getting into college, university or getting a job.
  • It’s not easy, you have to study a lot. There are no short-cuts, it takes a lot of time.
  • From your 9 (age 13/14) sign up to a Cognito account and start using it regularly.
  • When you find something you don’t understand, it’s not because you are stupid, it’s because you haven’t learned it yet.
  • By working hard for this you are showing to future employers that you can work hard.
  • Start making a science Glossary (a list of key words) with short explanations. Use a piece of card and test yourself, try to learn a word every day.
  • Make revision cards and use them. These are so useful for getting all this new info to stick in your memory.

Start Making Revision cards: https://thinkstudent.co.uk/how-to-make-effective-flashcards/
or: https://www.gcse.guru/revision-tips-and-techniques/how-to-create-and-use-flash-cards/

PLEASE TRY COMPLETE AS MUCH OF THE ‘JUNE’ WORK LISTED BELOW AS YOU CAN:

July

Watch Cognito Distance/Timne graphs here

Comnplete this:

Speed/distance diagram worksheet

Have a go at the Force questions from last week if you didn’t already complete them.

June

Try these questions on Forces.

Previous (finish this if you didn’t do it before):

Both hub 2 & hub 3 can try these questions but for hub 3 group it is essentail to give thorough answers before the next lesson. KS4 must start to make their own revision cards with keys words as we discussed in the lesson.

  • Research Newton’s 3 laws of motion, write a brief summary of each.

Answer these questions if you can. It’s not a test, you just need to think about them, do some research and write what you think:

  • why is it harder to throw a bowling ball than a tennis ball?
  • What do you need to do to get the bowling ball to go just as far as the tennis ball when you throw it?
  • If gravity is an attractive force, why does the moon not fall onto the earth?
  • How much harder do you have to push to move a 2 tonne van than a 1 tonne car along a smooth flat surface?
  • What does INERTIA mean? Make a revision card with that word on one side and an explanation on the other.
  • A feather falls more slowly than a hammer when dropped. Give a one-word explanation for this.
  • On the moon, what would happen when you drop a feather and a hammer at the same time?
  • a car travels 60 miles on one hour. What is it’s SPEED?

May

Anyone who plans on progressing to Key Stage 4 needs to create a Cognito account and start using it.

For everyone: check these 2 Bitesize pages:

Adaptations: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvscr2p

Leafs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znyycdm/articles/z6btng8#zm33f82

April

No weekly work set now. If you have interest in passing GCSE science then use the resources here. BBC Bitesize is a very good way to make sure you are keeping up.

20 March

Some fantastic research work- well done to those who put the effort in. Several students were scribbling down their home learning as the lesson started, or had copied word-for-word from a webpage. This is not research. 3 or 4 had done nothing at all. Well done to the brave ones who delved into the mysteries of quantum.

Parents: please ask to see your child’s research that they produced for this week and talk to them about how they think it went. Ask them to explain their findings; this is an ideal way to help understanding.

For next week: EVERYONE to write up at least one page of research on the Nitrogen Cycle (which we started already). Define: FIXATION, ASSIMILATION, NITRIFICATION. Use diagrams and examples.

  • Explain in detail how the nitrogen gets from the atmosphere into the plants.
  • what happens if plants are over-watered?
  • How can we avoid misinformation and fake science?

If you already researched the N cycle (and feel you have done enough) then please research any of the other topics listed last week, or any other area of science that interests you.

Watch this video on the Nitrogen Cycle

… and this one

13 March

Planted-Up project

We now have our own hydroponic system in the classroom. This will form a living ECOSYSTEM which we can monitor and learn from. The seeds that we planted will grown in water rather than soil.

1 minute video about Hydroponics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBK4QZSQaY

Bitesize page about different farming methods

For next lesson: prepare a short presentation which you can explain to the class on one of the following topics. We are looking for at least a full page, with one or more relevant diagrams/graphs/pictures that help explain crucial points. Probably minimum 2 short paragraphs. Choose one topic:

  • quantum tunnelling
  • quantum superposition
  • quantum entanglement
  • why do giraffes have long necks?
  • the carbon cycle
  • climate change
  • the Nitorogen cycle

Also: make SURE you know the meanings of these words: allele, DNA, gene, chromosome, genotype, phenotype, dominant & recessive genes

28 Feb

Here is the video we watched about Mendel’s peas.

Read this Bitesize page, watch the film and answer the questions.

For everyone in year 9: Find and watch the 2 cognito videos on DNA & alleles etc

Learn all of the key words we have defined over the last few weeks. If you don’t have your yellow book then you can look them up online, just add KS3 after the word and especially look for the Bitesize links.

DNA, genes, chromosomes, alleles, genotype, phenotype, dominant, recessive. Also revise parts of the cell and the role of proteins, plus everything we can covered this term. We will have a short test on Wednesday.

30 Jan

p11-18 in white books: Nutrition & digestion

DNA to protein video here

DNA replication video here

11 Dec

Starting Biology now and we will be looking closely at cells.

Try this Bitesize video

Or this one

Definitley watch this animation that show the inside of human cells & this one with DNA doing weird stuff

Then complete questions on cells & respiration in white books p3-10

27 Nov

White book: start section 6, Equations & Chemical Reactions.

Year 9: try this balancing equations worksheet: https://noisytoys.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/balancing-equations-19431-Q.doc

This video might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qquOFYOpdl0

13 Nov

Thoisoi2 is now in the links box above. Watch him blow things up.

Good work on the book questions; in a few weeks we will try a short test / ‘fun quiz’ of questions from the white book, so please keep at.

Models-of-the-atomDownload

6 Nov

Please complete the worksheet from half term (which only 1 person completed) and have a go at the questions in the white book on the section about particles up to compounds. Most of all, spend some time on the atom game (listed above). Try the first section (called ‘atom’) first to get to know more about atoms, then test yourself on the games.

Half term home learning October 2023

We will be finishing physics and starting chemistry so to prepare for that we will learn about those mysterious little friends: atoms, which come into both subjects.

ATOMS

This video might help, especially the start- don’t worry of there’s bits you don’t understand yet. Atoms are stanger than you might think; they are a balance of forces. Try to think about the positive and negative forces. There’s something strange going on here if you think about atoms enough.

History of models of the atom: cognito Looking at how people tried to understand atoms and got it wrong can help us get our heads round them (what is the plumb pudding?). The model that you see at GCSE level is also not really correct, but it’s good enough.

This video shows an animation of Rutherford’s lovely experiment, which took place in Manchester in 1909, changed the world, started the atomic age, really annoyed Hans Geiger (who then invented his Geiger counter because his eyes were sore), and accidentally invented the atom smasher and the world’s first ray gun.

Have a go at the following worksheet, do your own research on Bitesize and from your red books to help.

Models-of-the-atomDownload

Electrical Circuits

9 October Home Learning: p160-161 & also p178 – p184 – research sound waves. Remember to put a star by any questions that you can’t answer. Do some research (Bitesize etc), look in the red books then try again. Parents can use the answers in the back to check your answers if you have done all you can, but don’t write in any that you couldn’t answer- there’s no point as they won’t be marked! Bring any difficult questions to the next lesson. Bass Buzz practical next week.

Some people find these videos useful (and quite relaxing too):

Forces & Motion- September 2023

Newton’ First Law of Motion:
An object will continue to move in a straight line forever unless another force acts upon it.

Newton’ Second Law of Motion:
Force = Mass X Acceleration
Mass = Force / Acceleration
Acceleration = Force / Mass

Home Learning 25 Sept:

Watch last week’s videos if you haven’t already. Also watch them again if you have- there is some difficult stuff to understand so watching twice really helps.

Find the section on Forces & Motion in your black books to read. Use the videos from last week (and other websites like Bitesize) to help you. Then complete questions from page 144-149 in your white workbooks. Leave out any questions that you really don’t understand but put a star by them so we can go over them in the lesson next week.

It’s absolutely fine to get things wrong and to not understand this stuff. Try thinking about forces & motion every day in the things you see around you.

Home Learning 18 Sept:

Cognito- First 2 laws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5PtaCJJFjw

All 3 laws with a bicycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGO_zDWmkvk

OK Go music video in freefall plane (zero gravity effect): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co