GCSEs form a basis upon which higher education and successful careers are built, our tutor supported open distance learning GCSE Biology course provides the necessary knowledge, skills and qualification without disrupting your current lifestyle.
The DCA Home Learning Biology GCSE course provides the core knowledge and skills needed to embark on a rewarding pathway to success. The distance learning Biology GSCE course is specially designed, allowing you to learn about Biology through flexible and cost-effective home study at your own time and pace.
With the distance learning Biology GCSE course, online study resources and a personal tutor are available to guide you throughout your studies, and your Student Advisor is a Freephone call away.
The DCA Biology GCSE course provides an award from the AQA, a nationally recognised body. The GCSE award is recognised by employers and higher education providers as proof of your ability and determination to succeed. Many people pass GCSEs through home study.
If you'd like to advance your knowledge or to earn more money from a career where GCSE Biology is an essential qualification, and to enjoy increased status and security, the DCA home study GCSE Biology course is the ideal distance learning home study course for you.
The GCSE Biology course is divided into four modules. The first section introduces living things and gives instruction on practical work. This is followed by a module on the environment and the diversity of organisms within it. You will then look at how living organisms function and lastly explore the development of organisms and the continuity of life.
Examinations
Examinations are normally in June, although you may be able to arrange to sit some part of the GCSE in January.
Examination Entry Information
DCA will provide whatever help we can with examination information, finding an exam centre and authenticating coursework but entering examinations is entirely the responsibility of the student and the contract for sitting the examinations is between the student and the exam centre. We are not an exam centre and therefore although we can give information and guidance, we cannot make your entry for you, or change an incorrect entry. Full details about exams can be obtained on application. Students will sit external examinations and receive a certificate from the awarding body AQA
Textbooks
In addition to the recommended text, each course has a suggested reading list to help you achieve a broader understanding of the subject. Some subjects also require an accompanying textbook(s) which you will need to obtain.
Module One: Introductory section
This will introduce the method of study in more detail. It will include instruction on practical work, and the background required in mathematics, physics and chemistry.
• Living Things
• Practical Work
• Scientific Background: Physics, Chemistry, Maths
Module Two: The Environment and the Diversity of Organisms within it
Many of the lessons in this section have two alternatives, A or B. You have to choose one particular habitat to study and a choice is given between woodland, or a pond. If you select woodland you will follow the A lessons; and if you choose a pond then you will follow the B Lessons.
• The Ecosystem
• Deciduous Tree Ecosystem: Field Techniques
• The Freshwater Pond Ecosystem: Field Techniques
• Woodland Habitat Study: Abiotic Factors
• Light, Temperature, Soil
• Pond Habitat Study: Abiotic Factors
• Temperature, Light, Water
• The Diversity of Organisms in Woodland
• Tree, Herb, Alga, Pleurococcus
• The Diversity of Organisms in Pond
• Herb, Alga, Pond Snail
• The Diversity of Organisms in Woodland
• Worm, Snail, Butterfly
• The Diversity of Organisms in Pond
• Waterlouse, Insect, Fish
• The Diversity of Organisms in Woodland
• Bird, Mammal, Fungi, Bacteria
• The Diversity of Organisms in Pond
• Frog, Fungi, Bacteria
• Interrelationships: Populations
• The Circulation of Nutrients:
• Carbon, Water and Nitrogen
• Human Interaction with the Environment:
• Effects on Natural Habitats, Pollution, Conservation
Module Three: The Functioning of Living Organisms
This Module examines how living organisms function. It looks at how humans, plants and animals grow, breathe and live.
• Cells
• Plant Nutrition
• Plant Transport
• Water Uptake and Transportation
• Animal Nutrition
• Food Classes, Human Diet
• Alimentary Canal
• Structure, Function & Assimilation; Enzymes
• Animal Transport
• Circulatory System, Blood
• Respiration
• Excretion
• Sensitivity and Response:
• Skin, Plant Hormones
• Mammals:
• The Nervous System, the Eye
• Support and Movement: Locomotion Controlling Disease; Drugs
Module Four: Development of Organisms and the Continuity of Life
This final Module investigates reproduction in humans and plants. It also looks at ethical issues like genetics, and includes a lesson on Revision and exam preparation.
• Reproduction
• Asexual, Sexual, Flowering Plant
• Reproduction - Human
• Growth and Cell Germination
• Genetics Applied Microbiology |
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