What we teach in Year 10 Chemistry.

YEAR 10

CHEMISTRY MODULES/ TESTS

Mostly Levels 7/8 (with some 5 & 6)

 

 

MODULE 1 (4 Weeks)

 

MODULE 2 (4 Weeks)

 

1.    Periodic Table.

 

 

2.   Atomic Structure

·      include simple ion formation to assist Redox Chemistry later

 

 

3.   Acid/Alkali 

 

·      Revise Year 8 work

·      Applications of neutralisation            (as per page 123)

 

Practical 1      Colours of UI with various solutions.

 

Practical 2      Best value vinegar

 

 

4.   Investigating different kinds of reactions.

 

·      Start by revising 5.1

·      Practical CR7 - Endothermic/Exothermic Reactions

 

5.   The following topics will be revised as marked homeworks and assessed in the Module 1 exam.

 

 

1.    Reactivity Series

 

·      Metal and water

·      Metal and Acid

·      Metal displacement

·      Thermal Stability

 

 

2.   Continuing to investigate different kinds of reactions

·      Oxidation/ Reduction 5.5            (Tie in with Year 9 handout ‘Discovering Metals’)

·      DEMO - Burning magnesium.

·      Rusting iron - just revise 10.10

·      Revise reduction in Blast Furnace (Year 9 handout ‘Discovering Metals)

 

3.   Water Purity

 

 

4.   Gas Preparations

 

5.   Material Science and Environmental Science topics

·      These will be revised as marked homeworks and will be assessed in the Module 2 exam.

(a)      Particle theory of matter

(b)     States of matter

 

 

(c)      Kinetic Theory of Matter (including diffusion).

(d)     Elements, Compounds and Mixtures, and separating techniques (including fractional distillation).

 

MODULE 3 (1 Week)
Just before the Public Exams

(April)

Includes final revision &

Development of Examination Skills.

 

 

 

Post KS3 Public Exams

Examining the factors that control the rates of chemical reactions [1 Week]

 


OVERVIEW OF ASSESSMENT

AND RECORDING IN YEAR 10.

It is particularly important in this final year of KS3 that assessments should enable the process of assigning levels of achievement.

 

During the course of Year 10 teachers will regularly assess the performance of pupils and occasionally record their achievements.  There will be eight formal assessments that involve all the pupils being examined on similar work.  One of these will be a three hour practical investigation carried out during the Christmas examination.  A second will be a summative Christmas examination on the theory covered in Year 8 and 9.  The remaining six will be end of module examinations.  These will test the new work covered in the module and test specific Years 8 and 9 topics that have been revised through marked homeworks in the module as well.  The end of module tests will include questions that examine achievement in levels 5-8.

Science will also contribute to ICT Accreditation within the school as a whole. Its role will be to develop and assess the pupils' ability to use computer hardware to monitor results; subsequently using a spreadsheet package (Excel) to display and assist interpretation of the results.