F.5 NSS Biology Teaching Schedule 2024-25

Date
Week Number
Chapter

4/9/2024
-
20/9/2024

1-3
Chapter 15
(a)
Irritability
(b)
Detecting light by the eye
(c)
Detecting light by plants
(d)
Detecting sound by the ear

23/9/2024
-
4/10/2024

4-5

Chapter 16
(a)
The human nervous system
(b)
Transmission of nervous impulses between neurone
(c)
The brain
(d)
The spinal cord
(e)
Reflex action and voluntary action
(f)
The human endocrine system
(g)
Comparison between hormonal and nervous coordination

7/10/2024
-
10/10/2024

6
Chapter 18
(a)
The concept of homeostasis
(b)
Regulation of blood glucose level

15/10/2024
-
1/11/2024

7–9

Chapter 17
(a)
The human skeleton
(b)
Joints
(c)
- hinge and ball-and-socket joint
(d)
Muscles
 
-
opposing muscles
 
-
nervous transmission in neuromuscular junction
 
-
concept of flexors and extensors
(e)
Movement of the body

4/11/2024
-
29/11/2024

10–13
Chapter 19
(a)
Basic concept of ecology
(b)
Components of an ecosystem
 
-
living and non-living Components
 
-
primary and secondary succession
(c)
Functioning of an ecosystem
 
-
food chain, food web and trophic levels
 
-
roles of producers, consumers and decomposers
 
-
energy flow and cycling of materials in an ecosystem
(d)
Conservation of ecosystem
(e)
Ecological study

4/12/2024
-
19/12/2024

14–16
Mid-year Examination

9/1/2025
-
22/1/2025

18-20
Chapter 20
(a)
Basic concept of photosynthesis
(b)
Requirements for photosynthesis
(c)
Site of photosynthesis
(d)
The photosynthetic pathways
(e)
The fate of photosynthetic products
(f)
Factors affecting the rate of photosynthesis

10/2/2025
-
28/2/2025

22-24
Chapter 21
(a)
Basic concept of respiration
(b)
Site of respiration
(c)
Aerobic respiration
 
-
different stages of aerobic respiration
(d)
Anaerobic respiration
(e)
- muscle fatigue
- applications of anaerobic respiration
(f)
Contrast the processes of respiration and photosynthesis
3/3/2025
-
11/4/2025
25-30
(Uniform Test
27-28)
Chapter 22-24
(a)
Non-infectious diseases
  - health and diseases
  - non-infectious diseases
  - prevention of diseases
(b)
Infectious diseases
  - causes of infectious diseases
  - ways of transmission ad control measures of infectious diseases
  - treatment of infectious diseases
(c)
Body defence mechanisms
  - non-specific defence mechanisms
  - specific defence mechanisms

24/4/2025
-
16/5/2025

31–34

Chapter 25
(a)
Meaning of genetics
(b)
Genes and heredity
(c)
Monohybrid inheritance
  - Law of Segregation
(d)
Dihybrid inheritance
  - Law of Independent Assortment
(e)
Inheritance in humans
  -determination of blood groups and sex in humans
  - sex-linked genes
(f)
Variations in characteristics
  - continuous and discontinuous variations
  - phenotypic and genotypic variations
  - mutation
19/5/2025
-
3/6/2025
35–37



Chapter 26
Molecular Genetics
(a)
From DNA to protein
(b)
Mutations

4/6/2025
-
20/6/2025

37–39
Yearly Examination