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Integrated Science

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Form 1 (Grade 10)

7 topics

Introduction to Integrated Science

Introduction to Science

Demonstrate knowledge in the study of science
- Explain the basic concept of science
- Explain the importance of science
- Explain scientific method
- Use the scientific method to recommend solution to basic identifiable problems in the community.
- Explain Technology
- Differentiate between science and technology
Demonstrate knowledge in living and non-living things
- Explain living and non-living things
- State the characteristics of living things
- Differentiate between living & non-living things
- Outline the Linnaean order of classification
- Discuss the importance of classification
Demonstrate skill in laboratory safety
- Explain laboratory safety
- State causes of accidents in the laboratory
- State the general safety control measures in the science laboratory
- Explain uses of laboratory equipment
- Explain the safety symbols
- Explain the types of Personal Protective Equipment

Diversity of Matter

Demonstrate skill in preparing standard solution
- Explain matter
- Describe the particles of matter
- Explain chemical bonding
- Explain mole concept
- Calculate the concentration of a substance
- Prepare a standard solution
Demonstrate knowledge in cells
- Explain cells
- Describe the types of biological cells
- Describe the structure of eukaryotic cells
- Describe the cell organelles
- State the levels of cell organization
- Explain specialized cells
Demonstrate skills in water treatment
- Explain the sources of water
- State the uses of water
- Explain hardness of water
- Explain water contamination
- Describe methods of water treatment for human consumption
- Perform an experiment to treat water in the home

Renewable Energy

Demonstrate skills in solar energy
- Explain solar energy.
- Explain the uses of solar energy.
- Explain the parts of solar panel system.
- Explain how electricity is produced by a solar panel.
- Construct solar heating devices
Demonstrate knowledge in biogas energy
- Explain a biogas generation
- List the composition of biogas.
- State the advantages and disadvantages of biogas generation.
- State safety rules for biogas generation.
Demonstrate knowledge in wind energy
- Explain wind energy.
- State the components of wind power plant.
- State the advantages and disadvantages of wind energy.
- Explain safety precautions for wind turbine workers.
- Range Statement: The range is fully expressed in all the Pcs
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Renewable energy

Introduction to Mechanics

Demonstrate knowledge in work done
- Explain Work
- State the unit of work
- Calculate work done
- Distinguish between work done in lifting load vertically upward and carrying load along a horizontal distance
- Explain Potential energy
- Explain Kinetic energy
- Range Statement: The range is fully expressed in the PCs
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Demonstrate knowledge in power
- Explain power
- Calculate power
- State the unit of power
- Interpret power rating exerted by an electric appliance
- Relate power rating to energy conservation
- Range Statement: The range is fully expressed in the PCs
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Demonstrate knowledge in simple machines
- Explain a simple machine
- Identify types of simple machines
- Explain Mechanical Advantage
- Explain Velocity ratio
- Calculate the Efficiency of a machine
- Explain why efficiency of a machine is always less than 1

Nutrition

Demonstrate skills in identifying food nutrients
- Explain nutrition
- Explain the types of nutrition
- Identify food groups in Ghana
- Explain the importance of food nutrients
- Conduct an experiment to identify food nutrients
Demonstrate skill in performing photosynthesis experiment
- Explain photosynthesis
- Identify the raw materials for photosynthesis
- State the importance of photosynthesis
- Conduct an experiment to demonstrate the conditions necessary for photosynthesis
- Conduct an experiment to demonstrate the product of photosynthesis
Demonstrate knowledge in dentition
- Explain dentition
- Describe the types of teeth
- Explain the types of feeding in mammals
- State the problems associated with dentition
- Explain methods of preventing dental problems

Form 2 (Grade 11)

4 topics

Life Processes

Demonstrate knowledge in respiratory system
- Explain respiration
- Explain types of respiration
- Outline the mechanism of breathing
- Describe the function of the organs of respiration
- Explain aerobic and anaerobic respiration
- Identify the disorders of the respiratory system
Demonstrate knowledge in excretory system
- Explain excretion
- Discuss the main organs of excretory system
- Distinguish between excretion and egestion
- Sketch the structure of the urinary system
- Explain urine formation in mammals
- State disorders in urinary system in human
Demonstrate knowledge in plant reproduction
- Explain reproduction in plant
- Describe the structure of a flower
- Explain pollination in plants
- Explain the process of fertilization in plant
- Describe the structure of fruits
- Explain germination in plants
- Range Statement: The range is fully expressed in the PCs
Demonstrate knowledge in animal reproduction
- Explain reproduction in animals
- State the functions of the organs of the reproductive system in animals
- Explain the process of fertilization in animal
- Identify the phases of growth in humans
- Describe the problems associated with reproduction in humans
- State the mode of transmitting of STIs in humans

Acids, Bases and Salts

Demonstrate skills in identifying acids
- Explain acids
- State the physical properties of acids
- State chemical properties of acids
- State the uses of acid in everyday life
- Perform an experiment to test for acids
Demonstrate knowledge in bases
- Explain bases
- State the physical properties of bases
- Discuss the chemical properties of bases
- State the uses of bases in everyday life
- Perform an experiment to test for bases
Demonstrate knowledge in salts
- Define salt
- Explain the types of salts
- Describe the preparation of salt
- Describe the production of common salt from sea water
Demonstrate knowledge in the use of the pH Scale
- Define pH
- Interpret the pH scale
- State the significance of the pH measurement
- State the limitations of the pH scale
- Range Statement: The range is fully expressed in the PCs.
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Nature Conservation

Demonstrate knowledge in atmosphere and climate change
- Explain the atmosphere
- State human activities that affect the atmosphere
- Describe the major pollutants of the atmosphere
- Explain greenhouse effect on climate change
- Describe how the balance of the atmosphere is kept constant

Nature conservation

Demonstrate knowledge in soil conservation
- Explain conservation
- Explain soil nutrients
- Describe the symptoms of soil nutrients deficiency
- List the factors which lead to soil nutrient depletion
- Describe methods of maintaining soil nutrient fertility

Form 3 (Grade 12)

11 topics

Diversity of Matter

Demonstrate knowledge in diversity of matter
- (a) State the categories of materials
- (b) Explain the categories of material under diversity of matter
- (c) Describe the properties of materials in diversity of matter
- (d) Explain an alloy
- (e) State the composition of an alloy
- (f) List the importance of alloys
Demonstrate knowledge in extraction of minerals
- (a) State mineral resources exploited in Ghana
- (b) Outline the benefits of mineral resources to the economy of Ghana
- (c) List the chemical agents for extraction of minerals
- (d) Describe the extraction of minerals from the soil
- (e) Identify the challenges of mineral extraction in Ghana
Demonstrate skills in rust prevention
- (a) Explain rusting of iron
- (b) Explain the factors that influence rusting of ironic materials at home
- (c) Investigate the conditions that cause rusting
- (d) Discuss the methods of preventing rusting
- (e) Perform an experiment on prevention of rusting

Diversity of matter

Demonstrate knowledge in identifying organic compounds
- (a) Describe chemical compounds
- (b) Explain organic compounds
- (c) Identify functional groups of organic compounds
- (d) Identify organic compounds
- (e) State the importance of organic compounds to industrialization
Demonstrate skill in re-fabrication of plastic waste
- (a) Explain petrochemical product
- (b) Outline the product in the refinery of crude oil
- (c) Explain polymerization reaction
- (d) State the importance of polymerization to industry
- (e) Outline the effects of plastic product to the environment
- (f) Re-fabricate plastic waste from the environment

Life Cycle

Life cycles

Demonstrate knowledge in life cycle of parasite
- (a) Explain parasites
- (b) Describe the life cycle of parasite
- (c) Explain the types of parasites
- (d) State the economic importance of parasites
Demonstrate skills in parasite control
- (a) Explain parasite control
- (b) State the methods of parasite control
- (c) List the factors to consider when controlling parasites
- (d) Role play a method of parasite control in animal production
Demonstrate skills in farm animal production
- (a) Explain farm animals
- (b) Explain the types of farm animals
- (c) State the importance of farm animal production
- (d) Outline the main activities in production of ruminants
- (e) Outline the main activities in production of non-ruminants
- (f) Rear farm animal suitable from your locality
Demonstrate knowledge in pests control
- (a) Explain pest
- (b) State the types of crop pests
- (c) Explain the life cycle of crop pest
- (d) State the economic importance of crop pests
- (e) Define pest control
- (f) Role play a method of pest control in crop production

Life Cycles

Demonstrate skills in crop production
- (a) Explain crop production
- (b) Classify crops according to their growth cycles
- (c) State the categories of crops
- (d) Explain the principles of crop production
- (e) Cultivate a seasonal crop up to harvesting stage
- (f) Observe Best Agricultural Practices during cultivation.
- Crops according to their growth cycles: annuals, biennials and perennials
- Categories of crops: cereals, legumes, roots and tubers, edible fruits and nuts, beverage crops, oil crops, fibre crops, vegetables, ornamental crops, forage crops and industrial crops.

Energy I

Demonstrate skills in determining specific heat capacity of metals
- (a) Explain heat energy
- (b) Explain the modes of heat transfer
- (c) State the effects of heat on materials
- (d) Define specific heat capacity
- (e) Calculate the specific heat capacity of a named metal
- (f) Perform an experiment to determine the specific heat capacity of a metal
Demonstrate skills in measuring temperature
- (a) Define temperature
- (b) State the units of temperature
- (c) Convert temperature scales
- (d) Identify the parts of clinical thermometer
- (e) Measure the temperature of a body with digital thermometer
Demonstrate skills in Reflection of light
- (a) Explain reflection of light
- (b) State the law of reflection of light
- (c) Describe the properties of images formed in a plane mirror
- (d) State the uses of plane mirror
- (e) Explain dispersion of light
- (f) Separate white light into its component colour using a glass prism.
Demonstrate skills in refraction of light
- (a) Explain refraction of light
- (b) State the law of refraction
- (c) State the types of lenses used to refract light
- (d) Describe the formation of image in lenses
- (e) Perform an experiment to demonstrate refraction of light using water.

Energy II

Demonstrate knowledge in the care of the human eye
- (a) Describe the structure of the human eye
- (b) State the functions of the parts of the human eye
- (c) Explain the defects of the human eye
- (d) Explain the use of lenses to correct eye defects
- (e) State measures to care for the human eye
Demonstrate skills in mixing colours
- (a) State the types of colours of light
- (b) List the primary colours of light
- (c) State the composition of secondary colours
- (d) Combine primary colours to obtain secondary colours
Demonstrate knowledge in electromagnetic spectrum
- (a) Explain the electromagnetic spectrum
- (b) State the composition of the electromagnetic spectrum
- (c) Explain selective absorption of light in electromagnetic spectrum
- (d) State the application of the components of the electromagnetic spectrum
Demonstrate skill in building an amplifier
- (a) Explain a transistor
- (b) State the types of transistors in electronics
- (c) Describe the structure of the N-P-N transistor
- (d) Describe the structure of a P-N-P transistor
- (e) Build a darlington pair in an amplifier circuit

Interactions of Matter

Demonstrate knowledge in endogenous technology
- (a) Explain technology
- (b) Explain endogenous technology
- (c) State the effect of modern technology on the development of endogenous technology in Ghana
- (d) Outline ways of improving endogenous technology
Demonstrate skills in soap making
- (a) Explain small scale enterprise
- (b) State the raw materials for making soap
- (c) Explain the principle underlying soap making
- (d) State causes of low patronage of traditionally made soap
- (e) State the steps involved in soap making
- (f) Produce soap at the laboratory
Demonstrate skill in extracting edible oils
- (a) State the common edible oils in Ghana
- (b) State the sources of edible oils
- (c) Explain the principle underlying the extraction of edible oils from plants
- (d) State the steps involved in edible oil extraction from plants
- (e) Perform the extraction of a named edible oil

Interaction of Matter

Demonstrate knowledge in biotechnology
- (a) Explain biotechnology
- (b) State application of biotechnology in industries
- (c) Explain genetic engineering
- (d) State application of genetic engineering to industry
- (e) Explain tissue culture
- (f) State the application of tissue culture in Agriculture

Interaction of matter

Systems

Demonstrate knowledge of the central nervous system
- (a) Explain the nervous system
- (b) Describe the structure of the nervous system
- (c) Explain the structure of the human brain in the central nervous system
- (d) State the causes of damage to the central nervous system
- (e) Explain the effect of damage to the central nervous system
Demonstrate knowledge in stimulus responses
- (a) Explain stimulus response
- (b) Classify stimulus responses
- (c) State the relevance of reflex action
- (d) Explain the reflex arc
Demonstrate knowledge in hormones in humans
- (a) Explain endocrine system
- (b) Explain hormone in humans
- (c) State sources of hormones in humans
- (d) Explain the functions of hormones in humans
- (e) State the effects of hormonal imbalance in the human body

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