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Year 8 science
In Year 8, students classify living things and model feeding relationships in food webs. They separate mixtures using techniques such as filtration and evaporation, explain seasons, Moon phases and tides using the Sun–Earth–Moon system, and analyse balanced and unbalanced forces. They write aims and hypotheses and identify variables in investigations.
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Biological sciences
- Classifying living thingsTopic outlineStudents use observable features and dichotomous keys to classify organisms, including Australian animals such as monotremes, marsupials and placental mammals.
- Food webs and ecosystemsTopic outlineStudents build food webs for Australian ecosystems, such as a eucalypt woodland or a coral reef, and predict the effects of removing or introducing a species.
Chemical sciences
Earth and space sciences
Physical sciences
Science inquiry
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Curriculum notes
Australian Curriculum v9.0. Topics are organised around the Australian Curriculum v9.0 Science strands and sub-strands. This is an independent learning resource; it is not endorsed by ACARA and has not been mapped to individual content descriptions.
These lessons were written around Australian Curriculum strands and matched to UK year groups by age (Year 1 is the year a child turns 6 in England). They are not mapped to the National Curriculum in England or the curricula of Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, so check them against your own plans.
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