Curriculum+Level+8+Science

Curriculum levels

=Level Eight 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, ecology, and evolution
• Understand the relationship between organisms and their environment. • Explore the evolutionary processes that have resulted in the diversity of life on Earth and appreciate the place and impact of humans within these processes. • Understand how humans manipulate the transfer of genetic information from one generation to the next and make informed judgments about the social, ethical, and biological implications relating to this manipulation.

Planet Earth and Beyond
Students will: Earth systems and interacting systems • Develop an in-depth understanding of the interrelationship between human activities and the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere over time. Astronomical systems • Explore recent astronomical events or discoveries, showing understanding of the concepts of distance 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 complex situations. • Analyse and evaluate data to deduce complex trends and relationships in physical phenomena.

Using physics
• Use physics ideas to explain a technological, biological, or astronomical application of physics and discuss related issues.

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.