Resources for Exam Preparation: 1. Science Matters Text Book Volume A 2.
Science Matters Workbook
Volume A 3. ALL resource notes/PowerPoint slides posted on LMS 4. ALL Videos posted on LMS 5. ALL
worksheets/ Quizzes done as Class Work and Homework 6. ALL work done in Science Journal Unit:
Model of Matter – Atoms and Molecules Chapter 8 page 141 8.1 The atom 8.2 Using models to
represent the atom 8.3 Using model to represent the structure of atom 8.4 Molecules What students
need to know?
● The history of how the understanding of an atom's structure has evolved to as we know it now.
● Understand the relative size of the atom. 7
● Use simple model and symbol to represent atoms.
● Identify protons, neutrons and electrons as sub-atomic particles and understand their characteristics.
● Define and understand atomic number and mass number.
● Define and understand why atom is neutral.
● Understand that if atomic number changes, then element changes.
● Define and understand isotopes.
● Define and understand ions, be able to differentiate cations and anions.
● To be able to read the periodic table.
● To be able to draw electron arrangement in shell for first 20 elements of the periodic table.
● Define molecule and how it is different from an atom.
● State the difference between molecule of element and molecule of compound.
● Understand diatomic, triatomic and poly atomic molecules.
● Be able to draw ball and stick molecule models.
● Represent molecule using its chemical formula.
● Understand how properties change for each element when they form different molecules. Unit: Cells
Chapter 6: Cells 6.1 What are Cells? 6.2 What is Inside a Typical Cell? 6.3 Multi cellular Organisms 6.4
Division of Labor What students need to know?
● Differentiate between living and non-living objects.
● Explain that cells are basic building blocks of organisms.
● Differentiate between unicellular and multi cellular organisms and give examples.
● Explain that cells are needed for repair, replacement and growth.
● Identify the different parts of a typical cell observed under a light microscope.
● Describe the functions of each part of the animal cell and plant cell (nucleus, chromosome, vacuole,
chloroplast, cell wall, cytoplasm and cell membrane).
● Identify common animal and plant cell and know their basic functions (Red blood cell, nerve cell,
guard cell, root hair cell).
● Identify what are tissues and organs.
● Identify, name and recall the functions of main organs (Heart, Brain, Liver, Bladder, Kidney, Stomach,
Intestine, Lungs) and the organ system they belong to.
● Division of Labor.
● Root system and Shoot system in Plants. 8 Unit: Light Chapter 9: Ray Model of Light 9.1 What is Light?
9.2 Reflection 9.3 Refraction What students need to know?
● Explain that light travels in straight lines.
● Construct and explain what the ray model of light represent.
● Reason how light behaves when an opaque object obstructs its path.
● Define reflection and explain how reflection is affected by the texture of a surface.
● State the laws of reflection.
● Define Incident ray, reflected ray, normal, angle of incidence and angle of reflection and boundary.
● State the difference between a real and virtual image.
● State the characteristics of an image formed by a plane mirror.
● Draw ray diagrams to show a ray of light reflecting off plane mirrors in various contexts.
● Explain how concave and convex mirrors affect light.
● Understand refraction.
● To be able to draw incident ray, refracted ray and emergent ray.
● Understand and explain how density of medium affects refraction. Unit: Elements, Compounds and
Mixtures Chapter 3: Exploring Diversity of Matter by its Chemical Composition 3.1 Chemical Composition
of Matter 3.2 What are Elements? 3.3 What are Compounds? 3.4 What are Mixtures? What students
need to know?
● Identify an element as the building block of matter.
● Identify if a substance is an element or a compound.
● Classify elements into metals and non-metals based on their properties.
● Describe compounds as substances consisting of two or more chemically combined elements.
● Understand that mixtures are made up of two or more elements and/or compounds that are not
chemically combined.
● Recognize solute, solvent and solution.
● Rate of Dissolving. 9
● Rate of Solubility.
● Recognize suspensions and solutions as mixtures. Unit: Separating Techniques Chapter 4: Exploring
Diversity of Matter using Separation Techniques 4.1 Separating Mixtures 4.2 NOT INCLUDED What
students need to know?
● Identify that a mixture can be separated based on properties of constituents.
● Understand that some mixtures can be separated using magnetic properties.
● Explain the use of filtration to separate insoluble solids from a solid-liquid mixture and state the
applications of filtration.
● Explain how evaporation and crystallization is used to separate dissolved solids from a solid/liquid
mixture.
● State the applications of evaporation and crystallization.
● Describe the use of distillation to separate pure liquids of different boiling points from mixtures.
● labelling of the apparatus included.
● State the applications of distillation.
● describe the use of paper chromatography and state its application.