CHEMISTRY CURRICULUM OVERVIEW

Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 22 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38

Year/Term Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

SEVEN Starting Cells and Particles Energy Adaptations and Forces and space Rocks and weathering
Science nutrition States of matter Types of energy ecological relationships Force diagrams Types of rock
Safety Plant and Boiling/melting Transfers and Adaptations Types of force Rock cycle
Investigation animal cells points transformations Evolution Gravity Earth structure
Graphs Balanced diet Diffusion Power Food chains and webs Solar system Fossils
Nutrition Pyramids of numbers Speed of light
groups
Food tests
EIGHT Elements, Light and sound Health and variation Respiration, Electricity and magnetism Acids, alkalis, metals
compounds, fuels White and coloured light Microbes photosynthesis, Circuit diagrams pH scale
Conservation of mass Reflection/ray diagrams Disease movement Linear and parallel Neutralisation
Formula equations Pitch/frequency Variation Circulation Electrical safety Reactions of metals
Fuels Human ear Natural selection Breathing Magnets Rust
Pollution Respiration Electromagnets Making salts
Photosynthesis
OR Musculoskeletal system
Light and sound OR OR Exercise
Health and variation Elements, compounds, Smoking
OR fuels
Health and variation OR
Elements, compounds, fuels OR
Light and sound

Bold – topic headings

Metals acids, bases and salts
Atoms, ions, redox etc
Atmospheric chemistry
Chemical Analysis
NINE Separating substances Atomic structure and Metals and reactivity The atmosphere Rates of reaction
and water. periodic table intro Metals properties Evolution of the Collision theory
Elements, mixtures, Atomic model Extraction based on atmosphere Factors effecting rate – concentration, surface area,
compounds Arrangement of the reactivity Pollution sources temperature, catalysts
Chromatography elements in the periodic Redox in terms of Required practicals
Water treatment table oxygen
Required practicals
TEN Structure and bonding Oil (organic chemistry) Periodic table group1 Electrolysis Acids ,bases and salts Quantitative chemistry
History of atomic Fractional distillation metal reactivity Ions and ionic compounds Acids as proton donors, Calculations involving mass,
structure Simple molecules Displacement and Redox reactions with metals, Mr, moles and concentration
Isotopes Alkanes, alkenes, polymers redox reactions of Half equations bases and carbonates Titration required practical
States of matter Chemical test group 7 in terms of Required practical Salt formation required
Ions and ionic bonding Combustion and electrons practical
Covalent bonding atmospheric chemistry Group 0
Metallic bonding
ELEVEN Exothermic, endo Rates Triple – further organic Revision
thermic Chemiscal analysis - Combined – revision 5.5-5.10
Required practical
equilibria (and for combined groups
LCA revision 5.1-5.4)

Bold – topic headings

Metals acids, bases and salts
Atoms, ions, redox etc
Atmospheric chemistry
Chemical Analysis
TWELVE Atomic structure Group 7, Amount of substance Energetics Equilibria Thermodynamics
including mass Amount of substance equilibria KSAS
spectrometry
Periodicity Alkanes, alkenes,
Group 2, Kinetics alcohol Alcohol, Halogenoalkanes Organic synthesis Carboxylic acids
Redox Introduction to organic – IR aspirin prep
nomenclature, isomers Revision
Introduction to Chem
Structure and bonding
THIRTEEN Entropy Redox and electrochemistry Transition metals Mocks Required practical catch
Acids and bases transition metals up and revision
periodicity
Kinetics
Optical isomers, Kp Polymers DNA Organic synthesis and
aldehydes and ketones Amides and amines Amino acids NMR revision
Benzene chromatography organic synthesis

Bold – topic headings

Metals acids, bases and salts
Atoms, ions, redox etc
Atmospheric chemistry
Chemical Analysis