Code: SCI006/SCI007
Title: Rocket Science
Coordinator: Mr Michael Sparks

Want to know a bit more about science? Are you keen to get into the meaty bits? This science will give you the details and experiences you would like to have. There will be lots of exciting experiments to do but you will have to figure out what is going on and investigate further.

You will have opportunities to design your own experiments and research like a real scientist. This science unit will involve all the science that can help you go on to study any of the sciences at senior level: namely biology, chemistry, multistrand science and physics. This will be an exciting and challenging unit of science.

Topics

• The human body nutrition and digestion
• Experimenting with Food
• Reproduction and More
• Sense Organs – how they work
• Magnets and some applications
• Electrical energy safely ad circuits
• Investigating alternative energy forms
• Let there be light.
• Chemical reactions, equations and more
• The periodic table
• Acids, bases and neutralization
• Theme Park Physics

Assessment

• Written tests
• PowerPoint presentations
• Assignments
• Creative projects
• Making models

Semester Planner (PDF 7.84kb)

Semester 2 Planner (8.30kb)

SCI006 Term 2 Overview (PDF 5.5 kb)

At completion students should know

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At completion students should be able to

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Integrated technology

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Assignment guidelines

Please refer to the Assignment Guidelines on how to set out bibliographies and references.

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