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The animal pathway
Six stages taught entirely through animals — and every single lesson is mapped to a national curriculum objective, so this covers science, geography, maths and English rather than replacing them.
Animals
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Choosing this as the main pathway puts it first on the home page. Nothing else is removed, and the marked work here reports into exactly the same objective grid as every other lesson.
Stage 1 · Science
How animal bodies work
Skeletons, guts and respiration, learned through the animals that push each system to its limit.
- Skeletons and muscles: cheetah, elephant, snow leopardUnderstand the structure and functions of the human skeletal and muscular systems4 marked checks30 min
- Guts, enzymes and gut bacteria: carnivore, herbivore, omnivoreUnderstand the tissues and organs of the human digestive system, including the role of enzymes and the importance of bacteria in the gut4 marked checks30 min
- Aerobic and anaerobic respiration: the sprint and the marathonUnderstand aerobic and anaerobic respiration in living organisms, including the breakdown of organic molecules to enable all the other chemical processes necessary for life4 marked checks30 min
Stage 2 · Science
Variation, adaptation and survival
Variation between and within species, adaptation tested by change, and how traits are inherited.
- Species and variation: telling leopards apartUnderstand differences between species and the variation between individuals of the same species4 marked checks30 min
- Adaptation, competition and extinctionUnderstand changes in the environment that may leave individuals within a species, and some entire species, less well adapted to compete successfully and reproduce, which in turn may lead to extinction4 marked checks30 min
- Heredity: how traits pass to the next generationUnderstand heredity as the process by which genetic information is transmitted from one generation to the next4 marked checks30 min
Stage 3 · Science
Animals in ecosystems
Food webs, human impact and planning an animal investigation you could really carry out.
- Food webs and interdependenceUnderstand the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem, including food webs and insect pollinated crops4 marked checks30 min
- Human impact: pollution, plastics and accumulationUnderstand how organisms affect, and are affected by, their environment, including the accumulation of toxic materials4 marked checks30 min
- Planning an animal behaviour investigationSelect, plan and carry out the most appropriate types of scientific enquiry to test predictions, including identifying independent, dependent and control variables4 marked checks30 min
Stage 4 · Geography
Where animals live
Biomes, a Kenya and Himalaya regional comparison, and mapping wildlife properly.
- Biomes and vegetation belts: why animals live where they doUnderstand the key processes in biology relating to biomes, vegetation belts and ecosystems4 marked checks30 min
- Two regions compared: Kenyan savanna and the HimalayaUnderstand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region in Africa and a region in Asia4 marked checks30 min
- Mapping wildlife: grid references, scale and satellite imagesInterpret Ordnance Survey maps, including using grid references, scale, topographical and other thematic mapping, and aerial and satellite photographs4 marked checks30 min
Stage 5 · Maths
Animal data handling
Presenting and comparing wildlife data using the KS3 statistics objectives.
- Presenting wildlife data: tables, bars, pie charts and line chartsConstruct and interpret appropriate tables, charts and diagrams, including bar charts, pie charts and pictograms for categorical data, and vertical line charts for ungrouped discrete numerical data4 marked checks30 min
- Averages and spread: comparing two populations fairlyDescribe, interpret and compare observed distributions of a single variable through appropriate measures of central tendency and spread4 marked checks30 min
Stage 6 · English
Writing for animals
Turning everything you know into writing that changes what a reader does.
Where this leads
Straight into GCSE work
The biology, ecosystems and data stages are the foundations GCSE biology and geography assume. When you want more of one subject, the full subject pathways carry on from here.