Section 2 Planning and assessment
Overview of Strands There are 56 topics in total in the Natural Sciences curriculum across Grade 8. These topics are organised into four main topic areas: Life and living, Matter and materials, Energy and change, and Planet Earth and beyond. The following table shows how the topics are spread across Grades 7, 8 and 9: GRADE 7
GRADE 8 TERM Term 1
Natural Sciences:
Life and living
Biodiversity TOPIC The biosphere
TIME IN WEEKS
TOPIC
1 Photosynthesis and respiration
3,5
Interactions and interdependence within the environment
Sexual reproduction
Variation 3,5 Micro-organisms 1
TIME IN WEEKS
2 GRADE 9 TOPIC
Cells as the basic units of life
5 Systems in the human body
TIME IN WEEKS
2 2
2 Human reproduction
Circulatory and respiratory systems
Digestive system
9 weeks Term 2
Natural Sciences:
Matter and materials
Properties of materials
Separating mixtures
Acids, bases and neutrals
Introduction to the periodic table of elements
2 Atoms
2 Particle model of matter
2 Chemical reactions
2
9 weeks 2
Compounds
5 Chemical reactions
1
Reactions of metals with oxygen
Reactions of non-metals with oxygen
Acids, bases, and pH value
Reactions of acids with bases: Part I
Reactions of acids with bases: Part II
9
2 2
1,5
9 weeks 1
1 1,5
1 1 0,5
1
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