Science Understanding - Physical Science:

Students develop an understanding of forces and motion, and matter and energy. They investigate how an object’s motion is influenced by forces, such as frictional, magnetic, gravitational and electrostatic, and learn how to represent and predict these interactions. They develop an increasingly rich concept of energy and how energy transfer is associated with phenomena involving motion, heat, sound, light and electricity. They appreciate that concepts of force, motion, matter and energy apply to systems ranging in scale from atoms to the universe itself.

In this sub-strand, students develop the core concepts that:

• forces affect the motion and behaviour of objects

• energy can be transferred and transformed from one form to another and is conserved within systems.

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Science Inquiry:

Questioning and predicting: Identifying and constructing questions, proposing hypotheses and suggesting possible outcomes. 

Planning and conducting: Making decisions regarding how to investigate or solve a problem and carrying out an investigation, including the collection of data. 

Processing and analysing data and information: Representing data in meaningful and useful ways; identifying trends, patterns and relationships in data, and using this evidence to justify conclusions. 

Evaluating: Considering the quality of available evidence and the merit or significance of a claim, proposition or conclusion with reference to that evidence. 

Communicating: Conveying information or ideas to others through appropriate representations, text types and modes.

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Digital and Design Technologies:

The Technologies learning area enriches the lifestyles of people and communities by encouraging innovative and enterprising behaviours through real-world learning. It fosters students’ curiosity, innovation, creativity, problem-solving, project management and ethical understanding through the solving of complex challenges.

Technologies ensures students benefit from both the knowledge of, and practical experience with, traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies that influence our world. Students are encouraged to consider the impact of technological solutions on social and equity issues, including personal and community values. The Technologies learning area engages students in analytical, critical, creative and design thinking skills. Through an agile and systematic approach, students learn to problem-solve, ideate, experiment, prototype and project manage to develop real-world solutions.

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Technologies aims to develop the knowledge, understandings and skills to ensure that students:

• make informed and ethical decisions about the role, application and impact of technologies on the people, society and the economy

• are creative, innovative and enterprising when using traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies

• identify, investigate, ideate and analyse needs, environments, problems and/or opportunities to design and create solutions

• engage confidently in design thinking skills to design, implement and evaluate solutions.