Science Sampler Yr 8-10

What are we learning? Exploring simple models and carrying out appropriate investigations to develop simple explanations. Explaining how living things respond to environmental changes both natural and human induced. Undertaking functional modelling that takes account of stakeholder feedback.

What are we learning? Recognise that there are life processes common to all living things. Understand that these processes occur in different ways in different living things. Understand the special aspects of the ruminant digestive system.

What are we learning? Demonstrate that heat will flow from a hotter to a colder object. Explore a technological or biological application of physics. Understand how the milking shed employs the laws of thermodynamics

What are we learning? Demonstrate that heat will flow from a hotter to a colder object. Explore a technological or biological application of physics. Understand how the milking shed employs the laws of thermodynamics.

What are we learning? Explore patterns in everyday examples of physical phenomena such as heat. Compare chemical and physical changes. Begin to use a range of scientific symbols, conventions and vocabulary.

What are we learning? The language and currency that is used when discussing Power. Understanding the importance of synchronizing. Using graphs to describe linear relationships found in number and spatial patterns.