Year 10 Science
Motion measured and then explained by Newton, electricity through a circuit, the periodic table and the reactions it predicts, acids and what neutralises them — and inside the body, digestion, coordination, reproduction and the way a trait passes from parent to child.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Biological sciences
- Life processesLesson
Trace food through the human gut and blood round the double circulation, say where each digestive juice acts, and explain how a plant moves water up and sugar down.
- Control and coordinationLesson
Follow an impulse along a neuron and round a reflex arc, name what each region of the brain looks after, and tell a plant's tropic growth from an animal's hormone response.
- How organisms reproduceLesson
Tell the asexual modes apart by the organism that uses each, follow pollen from stigma to seed and an egg from ovary to implantation, and say why variation is worth the cost of two parents.
- HeredityLesson
Work out the ratios of a Mendelian cross, tell a dominant trait from a recessive one, and explain how chromosomes let two traits be inherited independently and how they settle a child's sex.
Chemical sciences
- Chemical reactions and equationsLesson
Balance a skeletal equation by counting atoms, name the five kinds of reaction the chapter sets out, and say which substance has been oxidised and which reduced.
- Acidic, basic and neutral substancesLesson
Sort everyday substances as acidic, basic or neutral, read what each natural indicator is telling you, and use neutralisation to explain an ant bite and a sour field.
- Acids, bases and saltsLesson
Predict what an acid gives with a metal, a carbonate and a base, read a solution's nature off the pH scale, and name the salts that common salt is turned into.
- Metals, non-metals and the reactivity seriesLesson
Rank metals by the activity series, work out the ion a metal or non-metal forms from its electron shells, and say how each band of the series is won from its ore and kept from corroding.
- Carbon and its compoundsLesson
Explain why carbon shares electrons rather than trading them, tell a saturated compound from an unsaturated one, work along a homologous series, and name what soap does to oily dirt.
Physical sciences
- Speed and motionLesson
Work out speed, distance or time from the other two, choose between m/s and km/h, and tell uniform linear motion from non-uniform.
- Distance, displacement, speed and velocityLesson
Separate distance from displacement and speed from velocity, work out average speed, average velocity and average acceleration, and say what stays fixed in uniform circular motion.
- Motion graphs and the kinematic equationsLesson
Read velocity off the slope of a position-time graph and displacement off the area under a velocity-time graph, and use v = u + at, s = ut + ½at² and v² = u² + 2as.
- Force and Newton's three lawsLesson
Add forces to find the net force, use F = ma and F = mg, say what Newton's three laws claim, and treat two connected objects as one system.
- ElectricityLesson
Use Ohm's law and the series and parallel rules to find a resistance or a current, work out electric power and energy, and say why a heater's element is an alloy and a fuse is a weak link.