Science

Year 7 Science 

Focus Area 1: Observing the Universe

In this focus area, students explains how observations are used by scientists to increase knowledge and understanding of the Universe. Students develop skills in making observations, using scientific tools to observe, and using a sequence of instructions to safely undertake a range of investigations. 

Focus Area 2: Forces

In this focus area, students describe the effects of forces in everyday context through skills in identifying and developing questions for investigation, as well as processing and representing data, and identifying trends, patterns and relationships in data.

Focus Area 3: Cells and Classification

In this focus area, students describe the unique features of cells in living things and how structural features can be used to classify organisms through developing skills in using scientific tools and instruments for observations, as well as conducting investigations and communicating scientific ideas and concepts

Focus Area 4: Solutions and Mixtures

In this focus area, students explain how the properties of substances enable separation in a range of techniques through skills in planning and conducting investigations, as well as identifying problem-solving strategies and proposing solutions to problems