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Blueprint Year 7 unit planners

Blueprint Year 7 unit planners

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This is the version of the Blueprint 5-year curriculum framework, published May 2020. Get free KS3 and GCSE curriculum links plus other Blueprint extras by joining our Facebook group: Mastery Science Teaching.

 

“Planned with rigour, based on best practice research, ambition for all, with well-considered lesson plans”. Comments from Ofsted inspectors about Blueprint.

Blueprint is supported by AQA and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The current version was published in May 2019. We will publish a final beta version in July 2019. Blueprint is free to download. Want to publish it on your website? See FAQ.

Blueprint is a free 5-year, big ideas plan which aligned with the new demands of GCSE science.

  • better preparation for GCSE assessment objectives AO2 and AO3
  • joins KS3 and GCSE with a proper progression that removes repetition
  • helps you teach and practice thinking processes, enquiry and maths
  • more engaging, with contexts and applications of science

 

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Why a 5-year plan?


 


      FAQ

      How was the 5-year plan developed? The 5-year plan grew out of the KS3 Science Syllabus that Mastery Science developed with AQA. The 5-year plan is more ambitious and provides a framework that will completely prepare students for the greater demands of new GCSE. 

      How do you put the 5-year plan into practice? The 5-year plan is not just an alternate set of learning objectives. It embeds a lot of curriculum research and requires shifts in mindset and classroom practice. Mastery Science is supporting these with CPD, books and the Proper Science KS3 course materials.

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      Q&A

      For the Year 7 Mastery Practice book:

      For the Y9/GCSE Mastery Practice Book:

      It was written to help year 7 students learn to transfer the scientific knowledge to unfamiliar situation. It can also be used by students in other years to improve their understanding of the fundamental concepts. Learning to apply is what will give students access to the 60% of marks at GCSE that demand more than recalling content. The book uses a research-based approach to teach students how to solve different types of problems.

      The Practice Book has a chapter on each unit in the year 7 curriculum, based on a 5-year curriculum and AQA's KS3 Science Syllabus. Download the sample material to see exactly what concepts and types of problems are included.

      The first strategy studente need to learn is to evaluate the problem and what knowledge is needed to solve it. 'Detect' simulates how an expert looks at a question. They make sense of the situation, look beyond the superficial details to find the deep structure This allows them to recognise this as an example of a problem type they have seen before, and recall the organised information they need to solve - key concepts. It ensures that students avoid their inclination to just look at the keywords, and dive in risking misunderstanding the situation. Detect is broken down into smaller steps, usually: draw a diagram, show values, identify unknown, decide the concept

      This encourages students to bring into their working memory all their existing knowledge, externalise it on paper (to reduce working memory demands), and then home in on what's relevant to solving the problem.

      The third stage of the problem solving strategy is the actual solution process using the knowledge from Recall.The Solve starts by showing how to use the knowledge from Recall and models a step by step process of moving towards a solution for the problem.We teach students how to write answers scientifically, using a variety of structures like claim-evidence-reasoning, and problem-solution, and cause-effect.

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      Syretta West

      Using these to look into the propect of purchasing the full Year 7 and 8 curriculum. Really likely propect.

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      Heather Turner

      We used these to help us on our recent Deep Dive review and they helped a lot. One thing that has come back is knowing what they need to know for each concept. We used your Mastery planners but they said that wasn’t detailed enough, I think they were asking for a list like a specification (or even more detailed than that). I wasn’t in the meeting (as I was on a course) so I couldn’t point out the key facts on the planners, nor our list of ‘can do’ statements that I have prepared, but I though you might want to consider this feedback. To be honest, I suspect that I could have argued it and they’d have been satisfied. Other than that one small point, the feedback for the Mastery Curriculum was VERY positive. I’ve included a snip from the document, some points aren’t relevant to your work, but many are:

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      Matthew Docking
      Unit planners for year 7

      Clear and very helpful for thinking about progression