Biology GCSE / IGCSE

Hands-on experience, including fieldwork, is vital for enthusing students and supporting their understanding of science. Gaining the skills, knowledge and understanding of how science works is at the heart of the GCSE science specifications. FSC Key stage 4 science fieldwork programmes help science to ‘make sense’, using practical activities and examples which will make links with everyday lives.

Key Stage 4 science fieldwork programmes are fixed length courses with clearly stated outcomes that enable teachers to quickly and easily book a fieldtrip, safe in the knowledge that it will be directly related to work taught in the classroom and will contribute to achieving the curriculum.

All science fieldwork programmes will include:

Evaluation and critical analysis of self designed biology fieldwork investigation

Using range of equipment

Interpreting abundance and relative distribution of plants and animals, including ICT

Biotic and abiotic factors

Human impacts and the importance of management and sustainable development

Using keys to families of plants and animals

Using data, evidence, theories and explanations
Practical and enquiry skills
Communications skills
Applications and implications of science
As well as covering specific elements of the science curriculum all programmes also place a strong emphasis on developing personal confidence and team-building skills and an opportunity to consider aspects of citizenship.

Sample programme Biology GCSE

                       

                              3 Day programme

Units of Biology GCSE