Year 9 Science  

Focus Area 1: Energy (Term 1 Week 2 - Term 1 Week 10)

In this focus area, students evaluate current and alternative energy use based on ethical and sustainability considerations. Students select and use scientific tools and instruments for accurate observations, follows a planned procedure to undertake safe, ethical, valid and reliable investigations and selects suitable problem-solving strategies and evaluates proposed solutions to identified problems.

Focus Area 2: Disease (Term 2 Week 1 - Term 2 Week 9)

In this focus area students explain how an understanding of the causes of disease can be used to prevent and manage the spread of disease through analysis of  data from investigations to identify trends, patterns and relationships, and draws conclusions. Students will be communicating scientific arguments with evidence, using scientific language and terminology in a range of communication forms

Focus Area 3: Materials (Term 3 Week 1 - Term 3 Week 10)

In this focus area students assess the uses of materials based on their physical and chemical properties by designing safe, ethical, valid and reliable investigations. Students select suitable problem-solving strategies and evaluates proposed solutions to identified problems to communicate scientific arguments with evidence, using scientific language and terminology in a range of communication forms.

Focus Area 4: Environmental Sustainability (Term 4 Week 1 - Term 4 Week 9)

In this Focus Area students analyse the impact of human activity on the natural world through analysis of data from investigations to identify trends, patterns and relationships, and draws conclusions. Students select suitable problem-solving strategies and evaluates proposed solutions to identified problems