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Curriculum

The whole year, readable in five minutes.

Pick a subject and a grade. You will see every module, what your child can do at the end of it, and the lessons inside, taken from the same plan our mentors teach from.

  • 8 modules a year
  • A practice class after every lesson
  • Two assessments
  • Recordings of every live class

1Subject

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Biology · Grade 7

Grades 7 to 12. Live classes of four, eight a month.

modules
8modules
lessons
48lessons
months
12months
  1. 01

    Nutrition in Plants

    Explain photosynthesis and the other modes of nutrition in plants.

    • How plants make their own food
    • Photosynthesis: what goes in
    • Photosynthesis: what comes out
    • Other ways plants get nutrition
    2 more lessons
    • Parasites, saprotrophs and insectivorous plants
    • How nutrients get back into the soil

    6 practice classes

  2. 02

    Nutrition in Animals

    Trace food through the human digestive system and compare it with other animals.

    • The different ways animals feed
    • The human digestive system
    • Digestion in the mouth and the stomach
    • Absorption in the small intestine
    2 more lessons
    • Digestion in grass-eating animals
    • Feeding in single-celled organisms

    5 practice classes · An assessment

  3. 03

    Respiration in Organisms

    Compare aerobic and anaerobic respiration in plants and animals.

    • Why every living thing respires
    • Aerobic and anaerobic respiration
    • Breathing in humans
    • Breathing in other animals
    2 more lessons
    • Respiration in plants
    • What happens when you exercise

    6 practice classes

  4. 04

    Transport in Plants and Animals

    Explain transport in plants and the human circulatory system.

    • Why a body needs a transport system
    • Blood and the circulatory system
    • The heart
    • How water moves up a plant
    2 more lessons
    • How food moves through a plant
    • Excretion: removing wastes

    5 practice classes · An assessment

  5. 05

    Reproduction in Plants

    Describe pollination, fertilisation and seed dispersal.

    • Modes of reproduction in plants
    • Vegetative propagation
    • The parts of a flower
    • Pollination
    2 more lessons
    • Fertilisation and seed formation
    • Seed dispersal

    6 practice classes

  6. 06

    Weather, Climate and Adaptation

    Explain how climate shapes adaptation in different regions.

    • Weather, and how we measure it
    • Climate, and how it differs from weather
    • Adaptations to the polar regions
    • Adaptations to the rainforest
    2 more lessons
    • Animals and their habitats
    • Migration, and why animals do it

    5 practice classes · An assessment

  7. 07

    Forests, Soil and Water

    Explain why forests, soil and water matter and how they are lost.

    • Forests as ecosystems
    • Why forests matter beyond timber
    • Soil, and what lives in it
    • Water as a scarce resource
    2 more lessons
    • Wastewater and how it is treated
    • Sanitation and health

    6 practice classes

  8. 08

    Studying Living Things

    Observe, record and draw living things accurately.

    • Observing with a hand lens and a microscope
    • Keeping a field notebook
    • Classifying what you find
    • Designing a simple biology experiment
    2 more lessons
    • Presenting biological data
    • A field study of a local habitat

    5 practice classes · An assessment

Practice classes go over the lesson before them: worked problems, revision and doubts. Assessments sit at the midpoint and the end of the year.

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Every live session is recorded, so your child can revise a lesson before a test or catch up after a sick day.