Science

Year 8 Science introduces learners to further scientific concepts and skills that will allow them to describe and explain everyday phenomena. In Year 7 and 8 Science, there is a two year programme cycle with both classes studying the same topics at the same time in each year, which will allow for increased collaboration.

Course Focus

Programme 1

• Introduction to the laboratory

• Using evidence to solve a crime

• Physical and Chemical Changes

• Heat and light energy in everyday examples

• Individual investigations (leading to Science Fair projects)

• Space - our place in the solar system

• Space travel and how rockets work

• Micro-organisms - helpful and harmful

Programme 2

• Laboratory skills

• From garden to kitchen: preserving, chromatography, pH

• Ecology: habitats, adaptations to the environment

• Interactive systems: weather, water and its impact on the environment

• Electricity: simple circuits, batteries and static electricity

• Investigating sound

• Science Badges - learners choose an area of Science they wish to study and complete activities to earn a badge