Science - Year 9

Mandatory: Yes

Duration: Full year

Description

The year 9 Science course supports students to further develop their scientific understanding and advance inquiry skills and appreciation of science as a human endeavor through a study of the following areas.

• Biological Science: role of body systems in responding to negative feedback, sexual and asexual reproductive systems.
• Earth and Space Science: carbon cycle, interaction of combustion, photosynthesis and respiration and their reliance on Earth’s spheres.
• Physical Science: wave and particle model to describe energy transfer and transformation, conservation of energy.
• Chemical Science: development of the atomic model, chemical reactions and equations.

Students learn to explore issues through collaboration with their peers to design investigations, form a hypothesis, identify variables, collect and analyse the necessary data and communicate findings.