Year 13 Environmental Science

This course will allow students to develop knowledge and skills needed to tackle complex environmental challenges affecting the local community and to contribute to sustainable solutions. It is becoming increasingly crucial to have knowledge of how the environment works, how human activities can impact the environment, how to reverse this, and how to prevent future destruction.

This interesting course gives students a good understanding of how the environment works.  You will learn about the inner workings of the ocean and atmosphere, how they sustain life and potential environmental issues they face.  We investigate the impacts of Climate change on food production and explore how extremophiles can live on multiple planets.  Students also create their own experiments to evaluate the solutions to ocean oil spills. 

An optional internal assessment on carbon dating/dendrochronology is also available.  It is a multidisciplinary course that applies practical aspects of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy and Geology to understand how they all work together in the environment. 

There are three internals with one optional internal.  They involve experiments and report writing with the option of doing videos instead of written reports.  There are two externals assessments. 

Your work will be assessed through up to four internal achievement standards and two external achievement standards. 

• Standard AS91410 - Oil spills experiment (internal) - UE Lit Reading

• Standard AS91411 - Food production and climate change (internal) - UE Lit Reading

• Standard AS91412 - Geological dating (internal)

• Standard AS91413 - Ocean processes (external) - UE Lit Reading/Writing

• Standard AS91414 - Atmosphere processes (external) - UE Lit Reading/Writing

• Standard AS91415 - Extremophiles (internal) - UE Lit Reading

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