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BQ01 Biology: What are living things and what are they made of?

BQ02 Biology: How do living things grow and reproduce?

BQ03 Biology: How do living things live together in their environments?

BQ04 Biology: Why are there similarities and differences between living things?

BQ05 Biology: How do living things stay healthy?
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BQ06 Chemistry: How do we explain how substances behave?

BQ07 Chemistry: What are things made of?

BQ08 Chemistry: How can substances be made and changed?

BQ09 Chemistry: How can we explain changes in the air, land and oceans?

BQ11 Physics: How do forces make things happen?

BQ12 Physics: How do we see, hear and communicate?

BQ13 Physics: How do electricity and magnetism work?

BQ14 Physics: How does the Earth fit into the Universe?

BQ15 How can we live sustainably to protect Earth for a better future?

BQ10 Physics: Why do materials have different properties?

Year 7

Forces
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Solid, liquid, gas states and changes of state
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Cells
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Our solar system and beyond
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Solutions
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Ecosystems
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Sound, light and vision
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Heredity and DNA
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Separation techniques
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Human skeleton and muscles
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Heating and cooling
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Diffusion
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Climate change and living sustainably
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Year 8

Human digestive system
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Atoms, elements and compounds
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Biodiversity
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Understanding chemical reactions
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Moving by force
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Species and classification (differences between species)
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Variation (differences within species)
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Earth's resources
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Series circuits
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Reproduction in humans
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Fuels and energetics
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Making images
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Diet and exercise
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Climate change and greenhouse gases
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Year 9

Breathing and respiration
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Acids and bases
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Magnets and electromagnets
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Plant nutrition and photosynthesis
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Materials
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Hidden forces
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Adaptations, competition, natural selection and evolution
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Carbon cycle and climate change
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Waves
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Disease and drugs
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Patterns in the periodic table
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Resistance and parallel circuits
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Reproduction in plants
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Climate change and biodiversity
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Year 10

Combined science, Foundation

Atomic structure and the periodic table
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Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells
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Particle explanations of density and pressure
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DNA and the genome
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Structure and bonding
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Health and disease
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Measuring and calculating motion
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States of matter
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Biological molecules and enzymes
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Transport and exchange surfaces in humans
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Electric fields and circuit calculations
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Coordination and control: the human nervous system
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Separating substances
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Coordination and control: hormones and the human endocrine system
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Measuring waves
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Photosynthesis: requirements and products
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Calculations involving masses
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Inheritance, genotype and phenotype
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Energy of moving objects
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Cell division: mitosis and meiosis
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Making salts
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Stem cells and differentiation
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Energy of moving particles
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Fossil evidence, selective breeding and explaining evolution
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Chemistry of carbon
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Living organisms and their environments
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Circuit components
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Energy changes in reactions
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Year 11

Combined science, Foundation

Defences against pathogens, the human immune system and vaccination
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Rate of reaction
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Aerobic and anaerobic cellular respiration
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Forces make things change
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Maintaining biodiversity and human impacts
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Using Earth's resources
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Transport and exchange surfaces in plants
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Nuclear physics
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Hormones and human reproduction
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Groups of the periodic table
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Coordination and control: maintaining a constant internal environment
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Electromagnetism
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Photosynthesis: factors affecting the rate
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Atmosphere and changing climate
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Medicines and new treatments for disease
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Electromagnetic waves
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Variation and natural selection at the genetic level
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Electrolysis
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Classification in modern biology
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Mains electricity
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Gene technology
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Industrial chemistry
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