Science Core Subject

AIMS The curriculum provides students with carefully paced, in depth study of critical skills and concepts. It aims to encourage students to become self-motivated and confident learners of mathematics.

ASSESSMENT Each semester will consist of: Modelling and Problem-solving task Mid-semester test End semester test

There will be extended learning experiences and activities that may or may not be used for summative assessment purposes.

SCIENCE CORE SUBJECT

COURSE DESCRIPTION The Australian based

curriculum provides opportunities for students to develop understandings about science and its processes, the scope of its contributions to our culture and society, and its applications in our daily lives. The curriculum addresses the diverse needs of Australian students by providing them with scientific knowledge, understandings, and skills. Our goal is that students make informed and responsible personal, social, technological, and environmental decisions that impact at the local, national and global levels and to participate, if they so wish, in science-rich careers. The curriculum encompasses the three interrelated areas of: science inquiry skills (incorporating skills and understanding of science as a way of knowing and doing); science as a human endeavour (incorporating knowledge and understanding of the personal, social, environmental, cultural and historical significance and relevance of science), and science understanding (incorporating knowledge and understanding of the biological, physical, earth and space sciences).

AIMS Years 9 and 10 students involved in the Junior Science Program will be prepared to study the Senior Science subjects offered at Mary Mackillop Catholic College Years 11 and 12 — Biological Science, Chemistry, Physics and Earth Science. in