Biology: Science

Year 7 Biology follows AC9S7U01 (classification) and AC9S7U02 (food webs). Year 8 Biology follows AC9S8U01 (cells) and AC9S8U02 (specialised cells, tissues and organs). Year 9 Biology follows AC9S9U01 (coordination and homeostasis) and AC9S9U02 (reproduction). Year 10 Biology follows AC9S10U01 (genetics and inheritance) and AC9S10U02 (variation and natural selection). One tutorial per hinge idea; nodes whose response is a class task are left to class work.

Foundations

Year 7 BiologySort living things and follow food webs.Sorting the living world into groups and identifying organisms with dichotomous keys, then food webs, the energy that flows through them, and what happens when a species disappears. Concept tutorials with an interactive key and food web.Year 8 BiologyCells, tissues and organs.Cells as the building blocks of every living thing, the parts every cell shares, how cells specialise, and how tissues build organs. Concept tutorials with clickable cell and tissue diagrams.After: Year 7 Biology

Extensions

Year 9 BiologyNerves, hormones and reproduction.How the nervous and endocrine systems detect and respond to change and keep the body's internal conditions steady, then how reproduction makes offspring. Concept tutorials with a live response-pathway and body-temperature board.After: Year 8 Biology Year 10 BiologyGenes, inheritance and natural selection.Inheritance and evolution. DNA, genes and chromosomes; how meiosis makes every gamete different; predicting offspring with Punnett squares; then variation in a population and natural selection. Concept tutorials with a zoom from body to gene, a live cross board and a beetle population that evolves.After: Year 9 Biology