This section is for students studying the old (pre-2011) course. If you are studying the new (2011 onwards) course, please visit the new course index.
Biology
- Understanding ourselves
- Fitness and respiration, diet and digestion, keeping healthy, your senses and nervous system, drugs and you, homeostasis and hormones, gene control, characteristics and inheritance
- Understanding our environment
- Ecology and grouping organisms, photosynthesis and respiration, compete or die, adapt to fit, natural selection and evolution, population and sustainability
Chemistry
- Carbon chemistry
- Fundamental chemical concepts, cooking, food additives, smells, making crude oil useful, making polymers, designing polymers, using carbon fuels, energy
- Rocks and metals
- Paints and pigments, construction materials, the Earth's structure, metals and alloys, cars for scrap, the Earth's atmosphere, collision theory and rates of reaction
Physics
- Energy for the home
- Heating houses, keeping homes warm, and how insulation works, the electromagnetic spectrum, infrared signals, wireless signals, light, earthquakes and global warming
- Living for the future
- Collecting energy from the Sun, generating electricity, fuels for power, nuclear radiation, our magnetic field, exploring our solar system, threats to Earth, the Big Bang
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