Y7 Autumn Need to Know
You will be tested on the four topics you have learnt this term (listed below)
There are links to BBC Bitesize and to some Oak Academy lessons. Please use these if there are areas of the topic you found particularly difficult or if there are any lessons you missed.
Other useful resources are:
Seneca: https://senecalearning.com/en-GB/
Revision guides and workbooks are also available through WisePay
Forces
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4brd2p
Explain whether an object in an unfamiliar situation is in equilibrium
Describe factors which affect the size of frictional and drag forces
Describe how materials behave as they are stretched or squashed
Describe what happens to the length of a spring when the force on it changes
Sketch the forces acting on an object and label their size and direction
Skills
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrwvf82
Safety in the laboratory
Laboratory equipment
How to measure accurately
Presenting data in a table
Presenting data in a graph
How to use a microscope
Identify independent, dependent and control variables
Organisms
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znyycdm
Organisms revision lesson 2 (do not need to know digestive system)
Explain why multi-cellular organisms need organ systems to keep their cells alive
Suggest what kind of tissue or organism a cell is part of, based on its features
Explain how to use a microscope to identify & compare different types of cells
Explain how uni-cellular organisms are adapted to carry out functions that in multi-cellular organisms are done by different types of cell
Explain how a physical property of part of the skeleton related to its function
Explain why some organs contain muscle tissue
Explain how antagonistic muscles provide movement around a joint
Use a diagram to predict the result of a muscle contraction or relaxation
Matter 7 – Particle Model & Separating Materials
Identify a substance as a solid, liquid or gas
Describe the properties of different states of matter
Describe changing state (melting, freezing, boiling, condensing)
Describe diffusion and gas pressure
Select an appropriate method of separating a mixture (including distillation and chromatography