Specification for first teaching in 2017: Specification
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Students should understand how the properties of materials and energy forms interact to result in environmental change. They should apply this knowledge to suggest solutions to minimise current pollution problems and prevent future problems. Students should apply their understanding through a range of different historic and contemporary pollution events.
Students should consider how the properties of pollutants affect behaviour in the environment, their harmful impacts and the strategies that can be used to minimise problems.
Students should use examples to explain how environmental features affect the behaviour of pollutants and the severity of pollution caused.
Students should understand the effect of point and diffuse sources on the dispersal and concentration of pollutants.
Students should understand how environmental features can affect the chemical changes to pollutants, including the changes that convert primary pollutants to secondary pollutants.
Students should consider the following pollutants to identify their properties to analyse their environmental impacts and to plan control strategies
Students should understand the properties of pollutants and environmental features so they can analyse and evaluate the changes in human activities and strategies that can be used to minimize pollution.
Students should be able to explain how different control methods can be used to control noise in a wide range of situations.
Aircraft noise
Railway noise
Road traffic noise
Industrial noise
Domestic noise
Students should understand that a wide range of new technologies is available to provide better control of pollution.
Working scientifically
Students could plan activities to investigate environmental issues related to pollution which they could carry out eg:Opportunities to investigate the required methodologies of which students must have first hand experience. Further details can be found in Appendix A: Working scientifically
Opportunities to investigate the required sampling techniques of which students must have first hand experience. Further details can be found in Appendix A: Working scientifically