Length: Full Year

Recommended Background: Successful completion of Year 8 Science

Content:

Over Years 7 to 10, students develop their understanding of microscopic and atomic structures, how systems at a range of scales are shaped by flows of energy and matter and interactions due to forces, and develop the ability to quantify changes and relative amounts

The Australian Curriculum: Science is organised around six key ideas and three interrelated strands. The six key ideas are:

• patterns, order and organisation
• form and function
• stability and change
• scale and measurement
• matter and energy
• systems

The three curriculum strands are:

• science understanding
• science as a human endeavour
• science inquiry skills

Topics covered in Year 9 include:

• Unit 1: Responding to change
• Unit 2: Interdependence and ecosystems
• Unit 3: Plate tectonics
• Unit 4: Atoms
• Unit 5: Changes in Matter
• Unit 6: Energy transfer
• Unit 7: Energy waves
• Unit 8: Science storytelling

Leads to: Year 10 Science

Assessment:

Student performance will be determined according to the subject’s Achievement Standards as outlined in the framework of the Australian Curriculum. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes.