Faculties

Course Topics: Junior Courses

Year 7

1. Becoming a Scientist – introduction to Science

2. Food Glorious Food – basic skills and digestive system

3. Solar System and Beyond

4. All Mixed Up – mixtures

5. What is This? – classification

6. May the Force be with You – forces

7. Planet Earth – weathering, erosion, sedimentary rocks

Year 8

1. Scientists at Work –skills in planning and conducting experiments

2. Green Machine – plants

3. It’s Elementary – Year 8 Chemistry

4. Blood and Guts – micro-organisms and systems of the body

5. Energise – energy

6. Communities in Nature – ecology

Year 9

1. Experimenting Scientifically – skills in planning and conducting experiments

2. Bang and Fizz – acids and bases

3. Shake, Rattle and Roll – disasters and plate tectonics

4. Bodyworks – nervous and endocrine systems

5. Somewhere over the Rainbow – light

6. Starstruck – observing and visiting space including theories of the Universe

7. Power to the People – electricity

Year 10

1. Investigating Scientifically – skills in planning and conducting experiments

2. Atoms Unlimited – Chemistry

3. A Chip of the Old Block – hereditary

4. Protecting Planet Earth – ecology

5. On the Move – motion

6. Digging up Ancestors – fossils and evolution

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Senior Courses

In Years 11 – 12 students at Kogarah High School have the opportunity to choose from a number of courses in Science.

Biology

Chemistry

Physics

Senior Science

The following topics are completed within each course.

Biology

Year 11

Local Ecosystem

Patterns in Nature

Life on Earth

Evolution of the Australian Biota

Year 12

Maintaining a Balance

The Blueprint of Life

In Search of Better Health

Communication (Option) 2005

Chemistry

Year 11

Chemical Earth

Metals

Water

Energy

Year 12

Production of Materials

Acidic Environment

Chemical Monitoring And Management

Shipwrecks, Corrosion and conservation

Physics

Year 11

Moving About

The World Communicates

Electrical Energy in the Home

The Cosmic Engine

Year 12

Space

Motors and Generators

From Ideas to Implementation

Medical Physics (Option) 2005

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Senior Science

Year 11

Water for Living

Plants

Humans at Work

Local Environment

Year 12

Lifestyle Chemistry

Medical Technology

Information Technology

Pharmaceuticals (Option)

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