St John’s College (Hillcrest)

Level 1 General Science

11SCIG Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Mrs N. Gelston, Mrs S. Fairweather.

Recommended Prior Learning

Students must have gained Achieved in at least 50% of all Year 10 Science tests at an Achieved grade or higher.  Students must also have passed their end-of-year Yr 10 Science Exam.  As there are two Year 11 Science Courses, your classroom teacher will be able to advise on the best course for you to take.

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Course Overview

Term 1
Term 1 will start with a review of Nature of Science Skills. This will include practical work, measuring and recording data, data processing and analysis, basic research skills and questioning. This is not formally assessed.

After this review we will be learning about Chemistry.
AS 92021 (CB 1.2) Demonstrate understanding of chemical reactions in context

Chemical reactions occur in many different facets of everyday life. Students will have practice observing and classifying reactions and relate these reactions to implications in everyday life. There is a large practical component in this standard that forms the basis of recognising and applying knowledge to everyday reactions.
This is internally assessed.

Term 2
AS 91920 (S 1.1): Demonstrate understanding of a science - informed response to a local issue (Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports):

In this achievement standard students will learn about physiology of the human body, the chemical and physical ways in which it works, lung capacity, oxygen absorption and how the body responds to the stresses of sport. Then the focus will be on drug enhancement in sport, the effect of this on performance, the moral and ethical effects of this and how integrity in sport is maintained. This internal assessment is through research and investigation of different opinions and how these are important in order to be informed about a local scientific issue.

Term 3
AS 91921 (Sci 1.2) Demonstrate understanding of the use of a range of scientific investigative approaches, in context (Physics & Forces):

Based around forces, speed and vehicles this standard looks at the different types of investigative approaches that occur in Science. Students will carry out many practical tasks with focussed questions, choose an investigative approach to use to collect data and determine if this approach is best. This is assessed internally through a portfolio type process.

Term 4
There will be time available to check that all of your assessments are up-to-date.

Faculties:

Science

Assessment Information

All the achievement standards on this Level 1 Science course are assessed internally. There are no end-of-year exams.