Year 10 Science

The science inquiry skills and science as a human endeavour strands are described across a two-year band. In their planning, schools and teachers refer to the expectations outlined in the achievement standard and also to the content of the science understanding …

Year 10 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Year 7 Science

The science inquiry skills and science as a human endeavour strands are described across a two-year band. In their planning, schools and teachers refer to the expectations outlined in the achievement standard and also to the content of the science understanding …

Year 7 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Structure Science

The three interrelated strands of science The Australian Curriculum: Science has three interrelated strands: science understanding, science as a human endeavour and science inquiry skills. Together, the three strands of the science curriculum provide …

Structure | Science | F-10 curriculum

Key ideas Science

In the Australian Curriculum: Science, there are six key ideas that represent key aspects of a scientific view of the world and bridge knowledge and understanding across the disciplines of science, as shown Figure 1 below. These are embedded within each …

Key ideas | Science | F-10 curriculum

ACSSU151

Properties of the different states of matter can be explained in terms of the motion and arrangement of particles

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACSSU151 | Content Descriptions | Year 8 | Science | F-10 curriculum

ACSSU229

The motion of objects can be described and predicted using the laws of physics

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACSSU229 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | Science | F-10 curriculum

ACSSU117

Change to an object’s motion is caused by unbalanced forces, including Earth’s gravitational attraction, acting on the object

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACSSU117 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Science Year 7

By the end of Year 7, students describe techniques to separate pure substances from mixtures. They represent and predict the effects of unbalanced forces, including Earth’s gravity, on motion. They explain how the relative positions of Earth, the …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 7 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard Science Year 10

By the end of Year 10, students analyse how the periodic table organises elements and use it to make predictions about the properties of elements. They explain how chemical reactions are used to produce particular products and how different factors influence …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 10 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACSHE120

relating regulations about wearing seatbelts or safety helmets to knowledge of forces and motion

Elaboration | ACSHE120 | Content Descriptions | Year 7 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACSSU049

describing how heat can be produced such as through friction or motion, electricity or chemically (burning)

Elaboration | ACSSU049 | Content Descriptions | Year 3 | Science | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (1) ACSSU229

recognising that a stationary object, or a moving object with constant motion, has balanced forces acting on it

Elaboration (1) | ACSSU229 | Content Descriptions | Year 10 | Science | F-10 curriculum