HomeScience Faculty Year 9Courses9A.4 Human Body (Advanced)

Year 9 Mainstream and Enrichment

Learning Objectives

  1. Distinguish between living and non-living objects and explain the characteristics of MRS C GREN (or GREF).
  2. Distinguish between plants and animals
  3. a. Define levels of organisation in living things
    b. Identify the organ systems, which make up the human organism
  4. Be able to identify and name a range of bones
  5. Recognise the functions of the skeleton
  6. Identify three major types of joint
  7. Understand that muscles must be arranged in antagonistic pairs
  8. Describe a range of materials carried in the blood
  9. Learn the components of the blood and their functions
  10. Recognise the three vessel types
  11. Be able to label a diagram of the heart and indicate the flow of blood through it
  12. Know what a pulse is
  13. Understand the basic cause of a heart attack.

 
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