Year 10 Science
The cell and the tissues built from it, how life continues from one generation to the next and how that diversity is sorted out, mixtures and how to pull them apart, the inside of the atom and the way atoms combine, motion in words, graphs and equations, forces and the three laws, work and energy, and sound as a wave.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Cells and tissues
- The cell and what is inside itLesson
Name the parts of a plant and an animal cell and say what each does, tell a prokaryotic cell from a eukaryotic one, and use osmosis to explain what happens to a cell in salty water.
- Plant and animal tissuesLesson
Name the three meristems and the permanent tissues they become, match each plant and animal tissue to its job, and tell the joints and muscle types apart by what they do.
Variation and reproduction
- Reproduction: how life continuesLesson
Tell asexual reproduction from sexual, name the parts of a flower and follow pollen through to a seed, and describe fertilisation and the reproductive cycle in animals and humans.
- Diversity and classificationLesson
Place an organism in one of the five kingdoms, run the hierarchy from kingdom down to species, and read and write a scientific name in the binomial system.
Atoms and the substances they make
- Mixtures, concentration and separationLesson
Tell solutions, suspensions and colloids apart, work out a concentration as a percentage, and choose the right method for pulling a given mixture apart.
- Inside the atomLesson
Count protons, neutrons and electrons from an atomic number and a mass number, fill the shells and read off a valency, and say what makes two atoms isotopes.
- How atoms combine, and what a molecule weighsLesson
Use the laws of conservation of mass and of constant proportions, tell a covalent bond from an ionic one, write a formula by crossing over valencies, and add up a molecular or formula unit mass.
Motion and forces
- 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.