CORE: Science
Year 9
What is the subject about?
In Year 9 science, students analyse how models and theories have developed over time and discuss the factors that prompted their review. They evaluate the evidence for scientific theories that explain the origin of the Universe and explain how similarities in the chemical behaviour of elements and their compounds and their atomic structures are represented in the way the periodic table has been constructed, and use this to explain natural radioactivity in terms of atoms and energy change. Students investigate the interconnected nature of the body’s main systems and use the concepts of voltage and current to explain the operation of electric circuits and the field model to explain interactions between magnets.
Term 1: Electricity & Magnetism
Term 2: Body Systems
Term 3: Atoms
Term 4: Space
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
- Electrical safety video
- Scientific communication piece
- Persuasive argument relating to nuclear power
- Space storybook
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
“Year 9 science is great because we explore the unexplored – I feel like I know more about things that happen around me.”
Hae Hsa Ku