Science

The revised curriculum will be based on the big ideas of contemporary science and the scientific concepts that underpin these.

Experiences and outcomes will be grouped in the following way:

• Our living world: including
  • the diversity of living things, the uniqueness of being human and the importance of cells
• Our material world: including
  • uses and properties of materials, sustainability, the chemistry of life processes and the applications of chemistry in society
• Our physical world: including
  • harnessing and using energy sources, motion and travel on land, sea, air and space
  • the development of communication systems.

Teachers will be able to draw from these experiences and outcomes to develop relevant teaching contexts and activities, both within and beyond science, to a depth appropriate for the stage, class or group being taught. It is anticipated that that teachers will integrate aspects of the living, material and physical world as appropriate. To enhance learning, the guidance will promote links with other curriculum areas, including the technologies, social subjects, expressive arts, health and wellbeing and religious and moral education.