Year 9 Learning Support
Goals of this course are to:
- Provide clear rules and boundaries for appropriate behaviour.
- Teach social and team skills.
- Provide an engaging science course.
- Improve the literacy skills (reading, writing and numeracy) of students.
- For students to work consistently at Level 3 of the curriculum by the end of the year.
Each unit is 3-4 weeks long
2015 topics:
- What is Science?
- Why do we make ...... out of ......?
- How do we measure.......?
- Alive or not?
- Skateboards and Scooters
- Space Travel
- Food?
- Apocalypse
- How can you survive in the Desert??
- Make the biggest crystal
- Combustion Engines
- What does this bit do??
- Energy efficient house
- Growing Plants
- LASERS
Archives:
- Chemistry - Chemical reactions.
- Physical Changes
- Chemical Change
- Sports Science
- Particles and heat - Hot air balloons. Water rockets. Change in State.