Y8 Resources - Summer Term

• Investigate parallel circuits  compared with serial circuits

• What is magnetism?

• How electromagnets are made

• Genes and chromosomes

• How genes are inherited from our parents

• Natural selection and evolution

• Fossils

• Biodiversity and its preservation

• Natural resources

• Metal ores

• Metal reactivity series (reactions of metals with acids) 

• Metal extraction by heating with carbon and by electrolysis

• Using resources sustainably by re-using and recycling

• Composition of the atmosphere

• Carbon cycle

• The Greenhouse effect and climate change

• The different types of microbes

• Using microscopes to view microbes

• Useful and harmful microbes

• How do we protect ourselves from harmful microbes