Science

=Specialist Science=

SCIENCE AT SOMERVILLE 2011

Students will be learning about the Nature of Science (Understanding about science, Investigating, Communicating, Participating and Contributing in science).

This will be taught within the contexts below:

Mrs. Duffield: Material and Physical World Mrs. Dowman: Living World and Planet Earth and Beyond

MATERIAL WORLD YEAR 8 LEVEL 4

STUDENTS WILL:

PROPERTIES AND CHANGES OF MATTER: Group materials in different ways, based on the observations and measurements of the characteristic chemical and physical properties of a range of different materials Compare chemical and physical changes

THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER: Begin to develop an understanding of the particle nature of matter and use this to explain observed changes

CHEMISTRY AND SOCIETY: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Relate the observed, characteristic chemical and physical properties of a range of different materials to technological uses and natural processes

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> PERIODIC TABLE

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Atoms, molecules and compounds <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Physical and chemical reactions <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Chemical equations

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">CRIME BUSTERS <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Forensic science

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PHYSICAL WORLD

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">YEAR 8 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">LEVEL 4 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">STUDENTS WILL: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PHYSICAL INQUIRY AND PHYSICS CONCEPTS:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Explore, describe and represent patterns and trends for everyday examples of physical phenomena, such as movement, forces, electricity and magnetism, light, sound, waves and heat. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For example, identify and describe the effect of forces (contact and non-contact) on the motion of objects; identify and describe everyday examples of sources of energy, forms of energy, and energy transformations. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">FAST PHYSICS <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Speed <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Stopping distance <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Laser guns <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Speed cameras <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Formulae <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Presentation to the police about recommendations

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">FAIR TESTING UNIT <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">YEARS 7 AND 8 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">LEVELS 3 AND 4

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">STUDENTS WILL: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Understand the scientific method <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learn how to control variables <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learn how to hypothesise and then test the hypothesis <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Carry out their own scientific investigation

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SCIENCE FIAR <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">YEARS 7 AND 8

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This will be run as an optional elective and extension programme this year. Students will work with Mrs. Duffield and Mrs. Dowman at lunchtimes if they need assistance with their project.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">All the projects will be displayed in the hall and judged.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The best projects will be sent to the regional science fair as we have done in the past

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">LIVING WORLD <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Achievement AIMS Level 3 & 4 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Life processes <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Understand the processes of life and appreciate the diversity of living things. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ecology <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Understand how living things interact with each other and with the nonliving environment. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Evolution <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Understand the processes that drive change in groups of living things over long periods of time and be able to discuss the implications of these changes.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> YEAR 8 - LEVEL 4

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Planet Earth & Beyond

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Achievement AIMS Level 3 & 4 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Earth systems <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Investigate and understand the spheres of the Earth system: geosphere (land), hydrosphere (water), atmosphere (air), and biosphere (life). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Interacting systems <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Investigate and understand that the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere are connected via a complex web of processes

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">YEAR 8-LEVEL 4

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Interacting systems <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Investigate major factors and patterns associated with weather, and use given data to predict weather; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">( Causes of weather, extreme weather, measuring weather, interpreting weather maps)