SCIENCE (COMPULSORY)

 

Pre-Requisites

Nil

 

Duration of Course

Whole Year

 

Course Overview

The aims of the teaching and study of sciences are to encourage and enable students to develop inquiring minds and curiosity about science and the natural world and acquire knowledge, conceptual understanding and skills to solve problems and make informed decisions in scientific and other contexts. The skills will be developed in a variety of contexts including genetics and genetic continuity, the origin of the Universe, atomic structure and properties, rates of chemical reactions, the carbon cycle and energy conservation.

 

 

Pathways

Year 10 Science leads to Stage 1 Biology, Chemistry or Physics.