Curriculum+Level+7+Science

Curriculum levels

=Level Seven Science=

Nature of Science
Students will:

Understanding about science
• Understand that scientists have an obligation to connect their new ideas to current and historical scientific knowledge and to present their findings for peer review and debate.

Investigating in science
• Develop and carry out investigations that extend their science knowledge, including developing their understanding of the relationship between investigations and scientific theories and models.

Communicating in science
• Use accepted science knowledge, vocabulary, symbols, and conventions when evaluating accounts of the natural world and consider the wider implications of the methods of communication and/or representation employed.

Participating and contributing
• Use relevant information to develop a coherent understanding of socioscientific issues that concern them, to identify possible responses at both personal and societal levels.

Living World
Students will:

Life processes
• Explore the diverse ways in which animals and plants carry out the life processes.

Ecology
• Explore ecological distribution patterns and explain possible causes for these patterns.

Evolution
• Understand that DNA and the environment interact in gene expression.

Ecology and evolution
• Explain how the interaction between ecological factors and natural selection leads to genetic changes within populations.

Planet Earth and Beyond
Students will:

Earth systems and interacting systems
• Develop an understanding of the causes of natural hazards and their interactions with human activity on Earth.

Astronomical systems
• Explain the nature and life cycles of different types of stars in terms of energy changes and time.

Physical World
Students will:

Physical inquiry and physics concepts
• Investigate physical phenomena (in the areas of mechanics, electricity, electromagnetism, light and waves, and atomic and nuclear physics) and produce qualitative and quantitative explanations for a variety of unfamiliar situations. • Analyse data to deduce complex trends and relationships in physical phenomena.

Using physics
• Use physics ideas to explain a technological or biological application of physics.

Material World
Students will:

Properties and changes of matter
• Investigate and measure the chemical and physical properties of a range of groups of substances, for example, acids and bases, oxidants and reductants, and selected organic and inorganic compounds.

The structure of matter
• Relate properties of matter to structure and bonding. • Develop an understanding of and use the fundamental concepts of chemistry (for example, equilibrium and thermochemical principles) to interpret observations.

Chemistry and society
• Apply knowledge of chemistry to explain aspects of the natural world and how chemistry is used in society to meet needs, resolve issues, and develop new technologies.