Science

At Le Fevre High School, our core subjects English, Mathematics, Science, and Humanities and Social Sciences are brought together through an innovative approach called Voyage Learning. This concept connects learning across subjects, helping students explore big ideas and real-world challenges in a meaningful and integrated way. Through Voyages, students engage in authentic projects that encourage collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. This approach makes learning purposeful and relevant, ensuring students develop the knowledge and skills they need for life beyond the classroom.

In Year 7 science, learners explain how classification organises information to group organisms and recognise patterns in biodiversity. They use and develop models to explain how factors influence the flow of energy and matter through ecosystems, affecting populations. Learners model human impact on ecosystems and propose management practices. They use models to explain how predictable phenomena on Earth are influenced by the coordinated movements and cycles of the Earth, Moon and Sun system. Learners investigate and explain how balanced and unbalanced forces affect an object’s motion and draw conclusions about the influence of the direction and magnitude of a force. They use particle theory to explain how the motion, energy and arrangement of particles influences a substance’s properties and behaviour. Learners investigate and justify the appropriate separation method based on the composition and properties of a substance.

CONTENT

The following topics provide the framework for learning throughout the year, but not necessarily in this order:

• Particle theory
• Separating mixtures
• Classification of living things
• Food webs and food chains
• Forces and simple machines
• Forces and space
• Cycles of the earth, moon and sun

ASSESSMENT

Students are assessed against the science curriculum standards. Evidence of student achievement will be gathered through tests, assignments and practical reports.