Onslow College
Science (Y09)
Subject Description
Teacher in Charge: Kuda Paradza.
Welcome to Science at Onslow College. The junior science programme is designed to help you ask and begin to answer questions about the things around you, to develop the skills and knowledge needed to be a capable, scientifically literate citizen and to have fun!
Topic | Big Ideas | Weeks | Assessment | Curriculum Overlap |
| Working Scientifically | Developing practical skills to work safely and scientifically in a lab. | 5 (Term 1) | Report on how you separated a mixture into its parts. | Art - making paint out of iron oxide |
Particles | Using models to understand the particle nature of matter and how we can take advantage of differing properties to make use of materials. | 10 (Term 1-2) | Draw particle diagrams and explain what is happening in 3 different experiments completed during the topic. |
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Pasifika Navigation | How the vast Pacific Ocean was navigated using the:
| 6 (Term 2-3) | Present a scientific model of an Earth system and explain its importance. |
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Healthy Homes | Explore how energy is transferred from one place to another and changed from one form to another. Apply this to making a healthy home. | 5 (Term 3) | Design a house and investigate how energy is transferred and transformed to make it warm and healthy. |
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Kaitiakitanga | Exploring the living world. What makes an ecosystem? Adaptations and relationships that allow living things to survive in their environment. | 12 (Term 4) | Select an ecosystem on Earth, describe the parts of it and how the ecosystem would change when humans interfere in various ways. | Maths (Statistics), Waipahihi week 1 and week 2. English will researching and write on an ecological issue, week 5 (Persuasive Writing) |
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