The kettle, toaster, and cooker argue about their functions, with the toaster claiming it is the only appliance that can toast bread. The cooker argues it can do more cooking methods. They ask the kettle how its coil is heated, and the plugs admit that electricity from them provides the heat. The socket warns this is dangerous. The kettle concludes that electricity coming into the house is what provides the heat and power but can be dangerous to touch. The story emphasizes electricity should only be used carefully and not played with.
The document discusses using bio-indicators to monitor pollution levels. It focuses on using lichens and pond ecosystems to test for air and water pollution. Lichens can indicate air quality, with more elaborate lichens found in cleaner air. Nitrates from farm fertilizers can pollute ponds if washed by rain, with potential effects including increased nitrate levels. Samples will be taken from ponds near farms to analyze nitrate levels and determine the impacts.
The document discusses the short-term and long-term effects of exercise on the respiratory system. In the short-term, exercise increases breathing rate, depth of breathing, oxygen demand and carbon dioxide removal. This leads to oxygen debt as the body takes in more oxygen than at rest to repay this debt after intense exercise. In the long-term, regular exercise strengthens the respiratory muscles and increases lung capacity and volume through developing more capillaries and an enlarged chest cavity.
The document provides instructions for several microscopy techniques using onion cells, heart cells, pollen grains, leaf sections, stem sections, cheek cells, pond life, and stomata. It includes steps for specimen preparation, staining, and placement under the microscope, as well as questions to guide observation for each specimen type.
The document provides information and worksheets for a design task asking students to design a bottle opener for elderly residents in a nursing home. Students are asked to consider how bottle tops and lids can be difficult for those with weaker hands to open. They must design a device that opens bottles and jars easily while preventing them from falling, and that has no electrical parts. Worksheets provide guidance on researching lid sizes, designing to reduce force needed, and presenting the design with a poster or model. Higher levels involve more detailed research, descriptions, and considering perspectives of residents and carers. Assessment ladders evaluate scientific thinking and understanding applications and implications.
The document contains repeated text blocks that provide information about element names, their groups, periods, electron configurations, relative charges, numbers present, and locations of atomic particles. This information is listed multiple times without variation.
The investigation used radioactive carbon dioxide added to algal cells to follow the sequence of biochemical changes in photosynthesis. Samples were taken from the suspension at intervals and analyzed for radioactively labelled compounds. This allowed the compounds to be placed in the order they were formed: Q, R, S, P.
The kettle, toaster, and cooker argue about their functions, with the toaster claiming it is the only appliance that can toast bread. The cooker argues it can do more cooking methods. They ask the kettle how its coil is heated, and the plugs admit that electricity from them provides the heat. The socket warns this is dangerous. The kettle concludes that electricity coming into the house is what provides the heat and power but can be dangerous to touch. The story emphasizes electricity should only be used carefully and not played with.
The document discusses using bio-indicators to monitor pollution levels. It focuses on using lichens and pond ecosystems to test for air and water pollution. Lichens can indicate air quality, with more elaborate lichens found in cleaner air. Nitrates from farm fertilizers can pollute ponds if washed by rain, with potential effects including increased nitrate levels. Samples will be taken from ponds near farms to analyze nitrate levels and determine the impacts.
The document discusses the short-term and long-term effects of exercise on the respiratory system. In the short-term, exercise increases breathing rate, depth of breathing, oxygen demand and carbon dioxide removal. This leads to oxygen debt as the body takes in more oxygen than at rest to repay this debt after intense exercise. In the long-term, regular exercise strengthens the respiratory muscles and increases lung capacity and volume through developing more capillaries and an enlarged chest cavity.
The document provides instructions for several microscopy techniques using onion cells, heart cells, pollen grains, leaf sections, stem sections, cheek cells, pond life, and stomata. It includes steps for specimen preparation, staining, and placement under the microscope, as well as questions to guide observation for each specimen type.
The document provides information and worksheets for a design task asking students to design a bottle opener for elderly residents in a nursing home. Students are asked to consider how bottle tops and lids can be difficult for those with weaker hands to open. They must design a device that opens bottles and jars easily while preventing them from falling, and that has no electrical parts. Worksheets provide guidance on researching lid sizes, designing to reduce force needed, and presenting the design with a poster or model. Higher levels involve more detailed research, descriptions, and considering perspectives of residents and carers. Assessment ladders evaluate scientific thinking and understanding applications and implications.
The document contains repeated text blocks that provide information about element names, their groups, periods, electron configurations, relative charges, numbers present, and locations of atomic particles. This information is listed multiple times without variation.
The investigation used radioactive carbon dioxide added to algal cells to follow the sequence of biochemical changes in photosynthesis. Samples were taken from the suspension at intervals and analyzed for radioactively labelled compounds. This allowed the compounds to be placed in the order they were formed: Q, R, S, P.
This document outlines a lesson on forces. It aims to teach students to:
1) Identify different types of forces and how they affect objects.
2) Explain how forces can affect an object's motion.
3) Compare the sizes of opposing forces and how unbalanced forces affect motion.
The lesson investigates friction by having students measure the force needed to drag a shoe on different surfaces. It also explains how balanced and unbalanced forces impact whether an object is stationary, accelerates, or decelerates.
This document contains information about an assignment for a BTEC Level 2 chemistry unit. It includes:
- The learner and assessor names
- Details of the three tasks and the assessment criteria they address
- A scenario providing context for the assignment
- Sources of information for learners to complete the tasks
- Templates for submitting work, assessor feedback, and internal verification.
This document provides information for an assignment on the periodic table and electronic structure for a Level 2 BTEC First Certificate in Applied Science. The assignment includes 5 tasks to provide evidence for 5 assessment criteria. Task 1 involves describing atomic structures of elements 1-20. Task 2 is an investigation of chemical properties of groups 1 and 7. Task 3 describes trends in atomic structure of these groups and draws diagrams. Task 4 explains why these elements are used as compounds. Task 5 explains trends in chemical behavior in relation to electronic structure. The assignment aims to show how reactivity relates to electronic configuration.
This document provides information for an assignment on the periodic table and electronic structure for a Level 2 BTEC First Certificate in Applied Science. The assignment includes 5 tasks to provide evidence for 5 assessment criteria. Task 1 involves describing atomic structures of elements 1-20. Task 2 is an investigation of the chemical properties of groups 1 and 7. Task 3 describes trends in atomic structure and draws diagrams of elements. Task 4 explains why groups 1 and 7 are used as compounds. Task 5 explains trends in chemical behavior in relation to electronic structure. The assignment aims to help students appreciate how reactivity relates to electronic configuration.
This document contains information for an assignment on controlling industrial reactions for a Level 2 BTEC First Certificate in Applied Science. The assignment includes 3 tasks to provide evidence for criteria on investigating how reaction rates are affected, explaining how factors affect industrial reaction rates, and analyzing how factors affect yields. The document provides learner and assessor details, assignment objectives and scenario, task descriptions aligned to criteria, sources for research, sign-off sections, and templates for recording observations and witness statements.
This document outlines an assignment on chemistry and the Earth for a grade. It lists 14 tasks for students to complete involving classifying chemicals as elements, mixtures, or compounds; analyzing physical properties of chemicals; drawing atomic structures of elements; describing chemical reactions of groups 1 and 7; illustrating molecules in elements, compounds, and mixtures; explaining uses of chemicals like brick, copper wire, and glass; and proving characteristics of mixtures and chemical changes. Students are asked to draw atomic structures, define isotopes, describe reactivity trends in the periodic table, and explain why compounds are more commonly used than pure elements.
The document describes a table showing the growth of a baby's length in millimeters at various weeks of pregnancy. It asks the reader to create a line graph displaying this data with weeks of pregnancy on the x-axis and length on the y-axis. It also asks when during pregnancy the baby is growing the fastest.
The document describes the development of a baby in the womb. It shows diagrams of a baby inside the mother's uterus and placenta, connected by the umbilical cord. The placenta and umbilical cord should be colored orange, while the uterus wall should be colored brown. The placenta allows nutrients and oxygen to move from the mother's blood to the baby's blood, while wastes and carbon dioxide move in the opposite direction, without the two blood supplies mixing. However, some harmful substances like alcohol, chemicals from cigarettes, and viruses can pass through the placenta and affect the developing fetus.
The document describes the development of a baby in the womb. It shows diagrams of a baby inside the mother's uterus and placenta, connected by the umbilical cord. The placenta and umbilical cord should be colored orange, while the uterus wall should be colored brown. The passage explains that nutrients and oxygen move from the mother's blood to the fetus's blood in the placenta, while wastes and carbon dioxide move in the opposite direction. However, some harmful substances like alcohol, chemicals from cigarettes, and viruses can cross the placenta and affect fetal development.
The human body is made up of 11 major organ systems that work together to keep us alive and functioning. These organ systems include the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, nervous, excretory, reproductive, immune, endocrine, integumentary, skeletal, and muscular systems. Each system is comprised of various organs that work cooperatively to perform important tasks necessary for survival.
Nerve cells have many connecting side branches and transmit information as electrical impulses. Red blood cells have no nucleus and a large surface area to carry oxygen. White blood cells have a large nucleus and fight infection.
This document contains two charts showing the ages when physical changes typically start for girls and boys growing up. The charts list ages 8 through 17 and suggest that puberty and other developments may begin around ages 10-12 for girls and ages 11-13 for boys as they mature into young adults.
This document contains 20 statements about puberty and reproduction and asks the reader to identify each one as true, partly true, or false. It covers changes during puberty like hair growth and periods, sex cells, hormones, wet dreams, feelings, and menstrual cycles in females in preparation for potential pregnancy. Maintaining cleanliness during puberty is also mentioned.
The male reproductive system consists of internal and external organs that work together for reproduction. The external organs are the penis and scrotum, which contains the testes where sperm are produced. The internal organs include the vas deferens, seminal vesicles, prostate gland, and urethra, which all play a role in ejaculation and the delivery of sperm.
This document discusses two main types of bonding: ionic bonding and covalent bonding. Ionic bonding involves the transfer of electrons from metal atoms to non-metal atoms, resulting in positively charged metal ions and negatively charged non-metal ions that are attracted to each other. Covalent bonding involves the sharing of electron pairs between non-metal atoms to form stable molecular structures. Examples of ionic compounds include sodium chloride and magnesium chloride, while examples of covalent compounds discussed are hydrogen gas, ammonia, and water.
The document provides an example key that can be used to identify plants based on their reproductive structures and physical characteristics. The key shows that plants can be identified as flowering plants, conifers, mosses or ferns depending on whether they reproduce from seeds or spores and the size of their leaves. It also prompts the reader to use the key to identify 4 example plants and create a similar key that could be used to identify animals based on attributes like color, habitat and number of legs.
The document provides a key for scientists to identify different types of plastics based on their properties when heated or burned. The key involves a series of yes/no questions to determine if the plastic melts with heat, burns, drips when burned, smells fishy or cracks when heated, and whether it continues burning after the flame is removed. Plastic A is identified as rigid PVC as it smells fishy when heated but does not crack or drip. Plastic B is identified as polystyrene as it melts with heat and continues burning after the flame is removed. The key helps determine the type of plastic through a process of elimination based on its observable properties when exposed to heat or fire.
The document provides instructions for an assignment to evaluate how human and natural activities affect the earth's environment. Learners are asked to create tables describing various human and natural activities that change the environment and their effects. They also must explain how the atmosphere has changed from early earth to today due to natural and human processes, and discuss potential solutions to reduce CO2 emissions and climate change.
The document provides instructions for an assignment to evaluate how human and natural activities affect the earth's environment. Learners are asked to create tables describing various human and natural activities that change the environment and their effects. They also must explain how the atmosphere has changed from early earth to today due to natural and human processes, and discuss potential solutions to reduce CO2 emissions and climate change impacts.
This document outlines a lesson on forces. It aims to teach students to:
1) Identify different types of forces and how they affect objects.
2) Explain how forces can affect an object's motion.
3) Compare the sizes of opposing forces and how unbalanced forces affect motion.
The lesson investigates friction by having students measure the force needed to drag a shoe on different surfaces. It also explains how balanced and unbalanced forces impact whether an object is stationary, accelerates, or decelerates.
This document contains information about an assignment for a BTEC Level 2 chemistry unit. It includes:
- The learner and assessor names
- Details of the three tasks and the assessment criteria they address
- A scenario providing context for the assignment
- Sources of information for learners to complete the tasks
- Templates for submitting work, assessor feedback, and internal verification.
This document provides information for an assignment on the periodic table and electronic structure for a Level 2 BTEC First Certificate in Applied Science. The assignment includes 5 tasks to provide evidence for 5 assessment criteria. Task 1 involves describing atomic structures of elements 1-20. Task 2 is an investigation of chemical properties of groups 1 and 7. Task 3 describes trends in atomic structure of these groups and draws diagrams. Task 4 explains why these elements are used as compounds. Task 5 explains trends in chemical behavior in relation to electronic structure. The assignment aims to show how reactivity relates to electronic configuration.
This document provides information for an assignment on the periodic table and electronic structure for a Level 2 BTEC First Certificate in Applied Science. The assignment includes 5 tasks to provide evidence for 5 assessment criteria. Task 1 involves describing atomic structures of elements 1-20. Task 2 is an investigation of the chemical properties of groups 1 and 7. Task 3 describes trends in atomic structure and draws diagrams of elements. Task 4 explains why groups 1 and 7 are used as compounds. Task 5 explains trends in chemical behavior in relation to electronic structure. The assignment aims to help students appreciate how reactivity relates to electronic configuration.
This document contains information for an assignment on controlling industrial reactions for a Level 2 BTEC First Certificate in Applied Science. The assignment includes 3 tasks to provide evidence for criteria on investigating how reaction rates are affected, explaining how factors affect industrial reaction rates, and analyzing how factors affect yields. The document provides learner and assessor details, assignment objectives and scenario, task descriptions aligned to criteria, sources for research, sign-off sections, and templates for recording observations and witness statements.
This document outlines an assignment on chemistry and the Earth for a grade. It lists 14 tasks for students to complete involving classifying chemicals as elements, mixtures, or compounds; analyzing physical properties of chemicals; drawing atomic structures of elements; describing chemical reactions of groups 1 and 7; illustrating molecules in elements, compounds, and mixtures; explaining uses of chemicals like brick, copper wire, and glass; and proving characteristics of mixtures and chemical changes. Students are asked to draw atomic structures, define isotopes, describe reactivity trends in the periodic table, and explain why compounds are more commonly used than pure elements.
The document describes a table showing the growth of a baby's length in millimeters at various weeks of pregnancy. It asks the reader to create a line graph displaying this data with weeks of pregnancy on the x-axis and length on the y-axis. It also asks when during pregnancy the baby is growing the fastest.
The document describes the development of a baby in the womb. It shows diagrams of a baby inside the mother's uterus and placenta, connected by the umbilical cord. The placenta and umbilical cord should be colored orange, while the uterus wall should be colored brown. The placenta allows nutrients and oxygen to move from the mother's blood to the baby's blood, while wastes and carbon dioxide move in the opposite direction, without the two blood supplies mixing. However, some harmful substances like alcohol, chemicals from cigarettes, and viruses can pass through the placenta and affect the developing fetus.
The document describes the development of a baby in the womb. It shows diagrams of a baby inside the mother's uterus and placenta, connected by the umbilical cord. The placenta and umbilical cord should be colored orange, while the uterus wall should be colored brown. The passage explains that nutrients and oxygen move from the mother's blood to the fetus's blood in the placenta, while wastes and carbon dioxide move in the opposite direction. However, some harmful substances like alcohol, chemicals from cigarettes, and viruses can cross the placenta and affect fetal development.
The human body is made up of 11 major organ systems that work together to keep us alive and functioning. These organ systems include the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, nervous, excretory, reproductive, immune, endocrine, integumentary, skeletal, and muscular systems. Each system is comprised of various organs that work cooperatively to perform important tasks necessary for survival.
Nerve cells have many connecting side branches and transmit information as electrical impulses. Red blood cells have no nucleus and a large surface area to carry oxygen. White blood cells have a large nucleus and fight infection.
This document contains two charts showing the ages when physical changes typically start for girls and boys growing up. The charts list ages 8 through 17 and suggest that puberty and other developments may begin around ages 10-12 for girls and ages 11-13 for boys as they mature into young adults.
This document contains 20 statements about puberty and reproduction and asks the reader to identify each one as true, partly true, or false. It covers changes during puberty like hair growth and periods, sex cells, hormones, wet dreams, feelings, and menstrual cycles in females in preparation for potential pregnancy. Maintaining cleanliness during puberty is also mentioned.
The male reproductive system consists of internal and external organs that work together for reproduction. The external organs are the penis and scrotum, which contains the testes where sperm are produced. The internal organs include the vas deferens, seminal vesicles, prostate gland, and urethra, which all play a role in ejaculation and the delivery of sperm.
This document discusses two main types of bonding: ionic bonding and covalent bonding. Ionic bonding involves the transfer of electrons from metal atoms to non-metal atoms, resulting in positively charged metal ions and negatively charged non-metal ions that are attracted to each other. Covalent bonding involves the sharing of electron pairs between non-metal atoms to form stable molecular structures. Examples of ionic compounds include sodium chloride and magnesium chloride, while examples of covalent compounds discussed are hydrogen gas, ammonia, and water.
The document provides an example key that can be used to identify plants based on their reproductive structures and physical characteristics. The key shows that plants can be identified as flowering plants, conifers, mosses or ferns depending on whether they reproduce from seeds or spores and the size of their leaves. It also prompts the reader to use the key to identify 4 example plants and create a similar key that could be used to identify animals based on attributes like color, habitat and number of legs.
The document provides a key for scientists to identify different types of plastics based on their properties when heated or burned. The key involves a series of yes/no questions to determine if the plastic melts with heat, burns, drips when burned, smells fishy or cracks when heated, and whether it continues burning after the flame is removed. Plastic A is identified as rigid PVC as it smells fishy when heated but does not crack or drip. Plastic B is identified as polystyrene as it melts with heat and continues burning after the flame is removed. The key helps determine the type of plastic through a process of elimination based on its observable properties when exposed to heat or fire.
The document provides instructions for an assignment to evaluate how human and natural activities affect the earth's environment. Learners are asked to create tables describing various human and natural activities that change the environment and their effects. They also must explain how the atmosphere has changed from early earth to today due to natural and human processes, and discuss potential solutions to reduce CO2 emissions and climate change.
The document provides instructions for an assignment to evaluate how human and natural activities affect the earth's environment. Learners are asked to create tables describing various human and natural activities that change the environment and their effects. They also must explain how the atmosphere has changed from early earth to today due to natural and human processes, and discuss potential solutions to reduce CO2 emissions and climate change impacts.