Programme 15: Responding to Stimuli

Curriculum Relevance

National Curriculum England and Wales
Science Sc2 Life Processes and Living Things
Key Stage 4

Humans as organisms

2. Pupils should be taught:

Nervous system

g. the pathway taken by impulses in response to a variety of stimuli
h. how the reflex arc makes rapid response to a stimulus possible
i. how the eye functions in response to light

Green plants as organisms

3. Pupils should be taught:

Hormones

e. the hormonal control of plant growth and development, including commercial applications

Scotland

The eye: SG
The central nervous system: SG
Plant tropisms: Higher Biology

Northern Ireland Curriculum
Key Stage 4

Science (Double)
Living Organisms and Life Processes
Living Organisms
Excretion
q. understand the role of hormones in plants, including
- response to light
Nervous System
r. find out that behaviour can be explained in terms of receptors, co-ordinators and effectors, including
- receptors – the eye and the skin
- co-ordinators – the simple function of the brain and spinal cord in co-ordinating responses; a reflex arc

Science (Single)
Living Organisms and Life Processes
Living Organisms
Nervous System
p. find out that behaviour can be explained in terms of receptors, co-ordinators and effectors, including
- receptors – the eye and the skin
- co-ordinators – the simple function of the brain and spinal cord in co-ordinating responses; a reflex arc