Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School Year 13 2022-2023 Curriculum Overview Subject
Autumn Term Express Yourself: Development AO2
Art
Populations in ecosystems and statistical tests consolidation (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.7.4)
Biology
Stimulus and response: survival and response, nervous coordination and synaptic transmission, Pacinian corpuscles Required practical activity 10: animal responses (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.6.1.1, 3.6.1.2, 3.6.2) Photosynthesis: light-dependent and independent reactions, limiting factors and agricultural practices Required practical activity 7 (leaf pigment chromatography) Required practical activity 8 (dehydrogenase activity) (AQA Biology specification reference 3.5.1)
Stimulus and response: control of heart rate, the retina, control of heart rate, skeletal muscle contraction, homeostasis –principles, negative feedback, control of blood glucose concentration (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.6.1.2, 3.6.1.3, 3.6.3, 3.6.4.1, 3.6.4.2)
Respiration: glycolysis and anaerobic respiration, Krebs cycle and electron transfer chain in aerobic respiration, respiratory substrates Required practical activity 9: rate of respiration in yeast (AQA Biology specification reference 3.5.2) Energy and ecosystems: biomass, primary and
Spring Term Express Yourself Exam project questions set by coursework the board. First preparation Final piece and essay AO4 stages of Artist AO1 Obs AO3 Development AO2 Stimulus and response: Control of gene expression: control of blood water totipotency, regulation of potential transcription and translation, Required practical 11: gene expression and cancer, glucose in ‘urine’ samples genome projects, gene (AQA Biology technologies – producing specification fragments, PCR and uses of reference:3.6.4.3) gene probes (AQA Biology specification Control of gene reference: 3.8.2-3.8.4) expression: mutation (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.8.1)
Summer Term Controlled assessment AO4 15 HOURS
Genetics, populations, evolution and ecosystems: inheritance (AQA Biology specification reference 3.7.1)
Revision and exam technique
Genetics, populations, evolution and ecosystems: inheritance, population genetics, selection and speciation (AQA Biology specification reference 3.7.1-3.7.4)
Control of gene expression: applications of gene probes, in vivo gene cloning, genetically modified organisms (AQA Biology specification reference: 3.8.4)