SCI 7

 

UNDERSTANDING LIFE SYSTEMS: INTERACTIONS IN THE ENVIRONMENT

1. assess the impacts of human activities and technologies on the 
environment, and evaluate ways of controlling these impacts;
2. investigate interactions within the environment, and identify factors 
that affect the balance between different components of an ecosystem;
3. demonstrate an understanding of interactions between and among biotic and 
abiotic elements in the environment.


UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURES AND MECHANISMS: FORM AND FUNCTION

1. analyse personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that need 
to be considered in designing and building structures and devices;
2. design and construct a variety of structures, and investigate the 
relationship between the design and function of these structures and the 
forces that act on them;
3. demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between structural forms 
and the forces that act on and within them.


UNDERSTANDING MATTER AND ENERGY: PURE SUBSTANCES AND MIXTURES

1. evaluate the social and environmental impacts of the use and disposal of 
pure substances and mixtures;
2. investigate the properties and applications of pure substances and 
mixtures;
3. demonstrate an understanding of the properties of pure substances and 
mixtures, and describe these characteristics using the particle theory.


UNDERSTANDING EARTH AND SPACE SYSTEMS: HEAT IN THE ENVIRONMENT

1. assess the costs and benefits of technologies that reduce heat loss or 
heat-related impacts on the environment;
2. investigate ways in which heat changes substances, and describe how heat 
is transferred;
3. demonstrate an understanding of heat as a form of energy that is 
associated with the movement of particles and is essential to many processes 
within the earth’s systems.


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Assessment/Evaluation:

-Day-to-day observations
-Assignments
-Projects
-Tests