Year 10 Subject Guide 2020

Structure

Semester 1

Semester 2

Environmental Science

Natural Selection and evolution

Organisms and their environment

Variation and mutation

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Nutrient cycles

Adaptive features

Human influence on ecosystems

Selection and evolution

Neurobiology and Behaviour

Biotechnology and Genetics

Nervous and hormonal control in humans

Chromosomes, genes and proteins

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Homeostasis

Mitosis and meiosis

Drugs

Inheritance

Behaviour

Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

Assessment In Year 10 Biology students complete six summative assessments. Summative assessments Semester 1

Criteria Assessed

Criteria Assessed

Semester 2

Research Assignment

D

Research Assignment

D

Student Experiment

B, C

Student Experiment

B, C

Semester Examination

A

Semester Examination

A

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