Science

Year 9 Science introduces learners to a wide range of scientific concepts and skills that will help them to develop an understanding of the world, built on current scientific theories. The Science content and skills below are woven into the overarching theme of human survival needs.

Course focus

• science laboratory skills, vocabulary, symbols and conventions

• how food is obtained for all organisms including life processes in plants and animals 

• how food provides energy and nutrition to sustain life

• inventions over time for keeping warm, housing and transport, linked to mechanisms of heat transfer, energy changes and electrical circuits

• the importance of shelter linked to weather and the structure of matter

• importance of water for survival linked to basic chemistry concepts, including elements, compounds, and mixtures at a particle level and atomic structure