CORE: Science

What is the subject about?

Year 10 Science

In Year 10 Science, students have the opportunity to explore one term of chemistry, biology, physics and earth science. Students will predict how future applications of science and technology may affect people’s lives; including the use of renewable and non-renewable energy sources, water scarcity and the greenhouse effect. Students will explain the role of DNA and genes in genetic inheritance and examine evidence for natural selection and evolution. Students will undertake various practical activities to write balanced chemical equations, summarise chemical reactions and examine the relationship between distance, speed, acceleration, mass and force to explain                                                                                                  motion. 

• Term 1: Chemical Reactions 
• Term 2: Genetics
• Term 3: Forces & Motion
• Term 4: Earth Science

 Skills you will develop

• Develop aims and questions, formulate hypotheses and make predictions
• Plan and conduct investigations
• Generate, collate and record data
• Analyse and evaluate data and investigation methods
• Construct evidence-based arguments and draw conclusions
• Analyse, evaluate and communicate scientific ideas

Assessment

• Report on a laboratory experiment
• Patterns of inheritance investigation
• Response to a simulation of forces and motion
• Climate action project

Pathways

Studying science can lead to the following careers

• Science teacher
• Laboratory technician 
• Forensic scientist
• Researcher
• Geologist 
• Marine biologist
• Botanist 
• Ecology and conservation manager
• Zoologist 
• Psychologist 

TJ Craig – “Science has endless possibilities that you can take it! I’ve really liked experiments and I’ve enjoyed learning how about how science explains how the world works. I find it to be a subject that’s really interesting and I always enjoy it.”