Science - Course Outline

Year 7

• Science skills
• Food science
• Particles and matter
• The house
• Local unit - environment
• Present and past earth
• Communication
• The periodic table

Year 8

• Science Skills
• Science in sports
• Forensics
• Mechanical science
• Oceans
• Local unit - horticulture
• Metals and salt of the earth

Year 9

• Units, measurement and scientific method
• Cells, life processes and plants as organs
• Humans as organisms 1
• Classifying materials
• Products from metal ores and rocks
• Kinematics, energy and thermal physics
• Static and dynamic electricity