CORE: Science
Year 10
What is the subject about?
In Year 10 core 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
If you are interested in this subject please see Ms Edmonds