AQA GCSE Combined Science Trilogy 8464 Complete Course | 163 Lessons, 21 Practicals

Everything a department needs to teach AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy (8464), planned and ready to teach from the first lesson. Every lesson is ready to use, so your teachers get their planning time back and every class gets the same high-quality lesson.

What you get

• 163 editable PowerPoint lessons, one hour each, in teaching order
• All 21 required practicals, each written as a full lesson with the method broken into illustrated steps. Rates of reaction is two lessons, one for each AQA method, so there are 22 practical lessons
• 24 topic tests, one per unit, with a full mark scheme for every question.
• 24 medium-term plans, one per unit, with the lesson sequence, key ideas, common misconceptions and assessment points
• A curriculum map listing all 185 lessons with their objectives, specification points and tier, filterable, with your own teaching hours and terms to fill in
• A teacher guide explaining how the course is built and where to start
• A Personalised Learning Checklist covering the whole specification for pupils to rate red, amber or green before mocks

The same clear structure in every lesson

Every lesson follows the same order, so teachers and pupils always know what comes next. It opens with a Big Question and a Key words slide, then a Do Now that retrieves the lesson before. The teaching cycle runs I do, we do, you do for each idea: the explanation you talk through, whiteboard questioning and partner talk, then written practice pupils complete alone. A model answer follows every task. Every lesson ends with an AQA-style exam question, its mark scheme and an exit ticket.

Assessment for learning in every lesson

Mini whiteboard questions show you who has understood during the lesson. Pupils mark their own work and each other's against model answers. The exam question gives regular exam practice, and the exit ticket tells you where to start next lesson.

Clear, consistent slides

Every slide uses text of at least 20pt, so pupils can read it from the back of the room. Each idea has its own picture page, and a click in slide show opens the picture full screen.

Required practicals

Each practical covers the method, the variables, the results table, the graph work and the analysis. Pupils plan the reaction time investigation, find the density of solids and liquids, obtain I-V characteristics and measure rates of reaction by both AQA methods.

Easy to adapt and to share across a department

The curriculum map and the medium-term plans set out the teaching order, with each required practical straight after the lesson that teaches it. Every slide uses the 8464 specification codes, so teachers can check any lesson against the scheme of work in seconds. The lessons are PowerPoint files and the topic tests are Word files, so you can change the examples, the Do Now slides and the pace to suit your classes.

Written by Mrs Hayles, an award-winning science educator and science curriculum author who has taught this specification and trained the teachers delivering it.

Please note

This bundle covers AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy (8464) only. Biology 8461, Chemistry 8462 and Physics 8463 have their own courses, because their specification codes and content differ.

Every lesson in the course, in teaching order

All 185 lessons are listed below so you can check the course against your own scheme of work before you buy.

Biology, B1 Cell biology

• Animal, plant and bacterial cells
• Specialised cells and differentiation
• Microscopy: magnification and resolution
• Required practical: Microscopy
• Chromosomes, the cell cycle and mitosis
• Stem cells and their uses
• Diffusion and exchange surfaces
• Osmosis and active transport
• Required practical: Osmosis in Plant Tissue

Biology, B2 Organisation

• The human digestive system
• Required practical: Food Tests
• Required practical: Effect of pH on Enzymes
• The heart, lungs and blood vessels
• Blood and its components
• Coronary heart disease and treating the heart
• Health and disease
• Lifestyle and non-communicable disease
• Cancer
• Plant tissues and the leaf
• Transport in plants: transpiration and translocation
• Levels of organisation

Biology, B3 Infection and response

• Pathogens and communicable disease
• Viral diseases: measles, HIV and TMV
• Bacterial, fungal and protist diseases
• Defending the body: white blood cells and vaccination
• Antibiotics and painkillers
• Discovery and development of drugs

Biology, B4 Bioenergetics

• The photosynthesis reaction
• Rate of photosynthesis and limiting factors
• Required practical: Light Intensity and Photosynthesis
• Uses of glucose from photosynthesis
• Aerobic and anaerobic respiration
• Response to exercise
• Metabolism

Biology, B5 Homeostasis and response

• The nervous system and reflex arc
• Required practical: Reaction Time
• The human endocrine system
• Controlling blood glucose
• Hormones in human reproduction
• Contraception
• Using hormones to treat infertility (Higher tier)
• Feedback systems
• Homeostasis and optimum levels

Biology, B6 Inheritance, variation and evolution

• Sexual and asexual reproduction and meiosis
• DNA and the genome
• Genetic inheritance and genetic crosses
• Inherited disorders and sex determination
• Variation and mutation
• Evolution by natural selection
• Selective breeding
• Genetic engineering
• The evidence for evolution
• Fossils and extinction
• Antibiotic resistant bacteria
• Classification of living organisms

Biology, B7 Ecology

• Communities, competition and interdependence
• Abiotic and biotic factors
• Adaptations and extremophiles
• Food chains, predators, prey and sampling
• Required practical: Field Investigations
• Cycling materials: carbon and water
• Biodiversity and the waste we produce
• Land use, deforestation and global warming
• Maintaining biodiversity

Chemistry, C1 Atomic structure and the periodic table

• Atoms, elements and compounds
• Mixtures and separating them
• How the model of the atom developed
• Charges of subatomic particles and atomic number
• The size, mass and relative atomic mass of atoms
• The electronic structure of atoms
• The periodic table
• The development of the periodic table
• Metals and non-metals
• Group 0 and Group 1
• Group 7: the halogens

Chemistry, C2 Bonding, structure and properties

• The three types of chemical bond
• Ionic bonding and the charges on ions
• Ionic lattices and covalent bonding
• Metallic bonding
• The three states of matter
• State symbols and the properties of ionic compounds
• Small molecules and polymers
• Giant covalent structures, metals and alloys
• Diamond and graphite
• Graphene, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes

Chemistry, C3 Quantitative chemistry

• Conservation of mass and relative formula mass
• Mass changes and chemical measurements
• Moles and molar mass (Higher tier)
• Calculating masses from balanced equations (Higher tier)
• Limiting reactants and concentration of solutions (Higher tier)

Chemistry, C4 Chemical changes

• Metal oxides, oxidation and reduction
• The reactivity series
• Extracting metals and redox (Higher tier)
• Reactions of acids: metals, salts and neutralisation
• Making salts and the pH scale
• Required practical: Making a Soluble Salt
• Strong versus weak acids (Higher tier)
• The process of electrolysis
• Extracting metals and electrolysing solutions
• Required practical: Electrolysis
• Half equations at the electrodes (Higher tier)

Chemistry, C5 Energy changes

• Exothermic and endothermic reactions
• Required practical: Temperature Changes
• Reaction profiles and activation energy
• Bond Energies and Energy Change (Higher tier)

Chemistry, C6 Rate and extent of chemical change

• Calculating the Rate of a Reaction
• What Changes the Rate of a Reaction
• Required practical: Rates of Reaction 1
• Required practical: Rates of Reaction 2
• Catalysts
• Reversible reactions and equilibrium
• Le Chatelier's Principle and changing concentration (Higher tier)
• The effect of temperature on equilibrium (Higher tier)
• The effect of pressure on equilibrium (Higher tier)

Chemistry, C7 Organic chemistry

• Crude oil, hydrocarbons and alkanes
• Fractional distillation and petrochemicals
• The properties and combustion of hydrocarbons
• Cracking hydrocarbons to make alkenes

Chemistry, C8 Chemical analysis

• Pure substances and formulations
• Chromatography and Rf values
• Required practical: Chromatography
• Testing for hydrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide
• Testing for Chlorine

Chemistry, C9 Chemistry of the atmosphere

• The gases in today's atmosphere
• The Earth's early atmosphere
• How oxygen rose and carbon dioxide fell
• Greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect
• Climate change and the carbon footprint
• Pollutants from burning fuels
• The problems pollutants cause

Chemistry, C10 Using resources

• Resources and sustainable development
• Potable water
• Required practical: Water Purification
• Waste water treatment
• Life cycle assessment
• Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

Physics, P1 Energy

• Energy stores and calculating energy changes
• Specific heat capacity and power
• Required practical: Specific Heat Capacity
• Conservation, dissipation and efficiency
• Reducing unwanted energy transfers
• National and global energy resources

Physics, P2 Electricity

• Circuits, charge and current
• Required practical: Resistance of a Wire
• Resistors: ohmic and non-ohmic
• Required practical: I-V Characteristics
• Mains electricity: ac, dc and the three wires
• Electrical power
• Energy transfers in everyday appliances
• The National Grid
• Series and parallel circuits

Physics, P3 Particle model of matter

• Density and changes of state
• Required practical: Density
• Internal energy of a system
• Specific heat capacity and latent heat
• Particle motion in gases

Physics, P4 Atomic structure

• The structure of an atom
• Atomic number, mass number and isotopes
• The development of the model of the atom
• Radioactive decay and nuclear radiation
• Nuclear equations and half-life
• Radioactive contamination and irradiation

Physics, P5 Forces

• Forces, scalars and vectors
• Resultant forces
• Distance and displacement
• Speed and velocity
• The distance-time relationship
• Acceleration
• Newton's laws and braking
• Required practical: Acceleration and Force
• Momentum and collisions
• Work done and energy transfer
• Forces and elasticity
• Required practical: Force and Extension

Physics, P6 Waves

• Transverse and longitudinal waves
• Amplitude, wavelength, frequency and the wave equation
• Required practical: Waves
• The electromagnetic spectrum (Higher tier)
• Required practical: Infrared Radiation
• Generating electromagnetic waves and their dangers
• Uses of electromagnetic waves

Physics, P7 Magnetism and electromagnetism

• Magnetic poles, forces and induced magnets
• Magnetic Fields
• Electromagnetism: Fields From Currents
• The Motor Effect and Electric Motors (Higher tier)

Licence

One purchase covers one teacher. You can use these lessons with your own classes for as long as you teach, edit them to suit your pupils, print them and share them with the children you teach and their parents.

If your whole department wants to use them, buy one copy per teacher or email info@advisoryscience.com and I will arrange a department price.

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