Curriculum+Level+6+Science

=Curriculum levels=

=Level Six Science=

Nature of Science
Students will:

Understanding about science
• Understand that scientists’ investigations are informed by current scientific theories and aim to collect evidence that will be interpreted through processes of logical argument.

Investigating in science
• Develop and carry out more complex investigations, including using models. • Show an increasing awareness of the complexity of working scientifically, including recognition of multiple variables. • Begin to evaluate the suitability of the investigative methods chosen.

Communicating in science
• Use a wider range of science vocabulary, symbols, and conventions. • Apply their understandings of science to evaluate both popular and scientific texts (including visual and numerical literacy).

Participating and contributing
• Develop an understanding of socio-scientific issues by gathering relevant scientific information in order to draw evidence-based conclusions and to take action where appropriate.

Living World
Students will:

Life processes
• Relate key structural features and functions to the life processes of plants, animals, and microorganisms and investigate environmental factors that affect these processes.

Ecology
• Investigate the impact of natural events and human actions on a New Zealand ecosystem.

Evolution
• Explore patterns in the inheritance of genetically controlled characteristics. • Explain the importance of variation within a changing environment.

Planet Earth and Beyond
Students will:

Earth systems
• Investigate the external and internal processes that shape and change the surface features of New Zealand.

Interacting systems
• Develop an understanding of how the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere interact to cycle carbon around Earth.

Astronomical systems
• Investigate the interactions between the solar, lunar, and Earth cycles and the effect of these on Earth.

Physical World
Students will:

Physical inquiry and physics concepts
• Investigate trends and relationships in physical phenomena (in the areas of mechanics, electricity, electromagnetism, heat, light and waves, and atomic and nuclear physics). • Demonstrate an understanding of physical phenomena and concepts by explaining and solving questions and problems that relate to straightforward situations.

Using physics
• Investigate how physics knowledge is used in a technological or biological application.

Material World
Students will:

Properties and changes of matter
• Identify patterns and trends in the properties of a range of groups of substances, for example, acids and bases, metals, metal compounds, and hydrocarbons. • Explore factors that affect chemical processes.

The structure of matter
• Distinguish between atoms, molecules, and ions (includes covalent and ionic bonding). • Link atomic structure to the organisation of the periodic table. • Use particle theory to explain factors that affect chemical processes.

Chemistry and society
• Investigate how chemical knowledge is used in a technological application of chemistry.