Education A to Z

Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers

Please note: This page explains a word or a process in education. It is general information about the system, the law and the guidance in England — not advice about your child, your school or your exam. If a decision is going against you, get advice from one of the free services we link to before you agree to anything or miss a deadline. If you are revising, check your own exam board's specification: boards word things differently and yours is the one that marks you.

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500 terms, showing 51–60 (page 6 of 50).

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Causation and consequence

Why something happened and what followed. Causes are not a list.

Cell

The basic unit of living things, and the difference between the two types.

Cells to organisms

Cells, tissues, organs, systems — the hierarchy and why it matters.

Change and continuity

What altered and what stayed the same. Thematic study questions live here.

Changing school

Moving a child mid-year: how to do it, and what to weigh first.

Characterisation

How a writer builds a character — and it is always a construction.

Checking Out Me History

Agard's poem about a curriculum that taught him everything except himself. Identity, and who writes history.

Chemical analysis

Tests that identify what something is. Flame tests, gas tests and chromatography.

Child development milestones

The typical sequence of what children can do, and why the range matters more than the age.

Child in need

A child assessed as needing local authority services to achieve a reasonable standard of health or development.

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