Australia Year 7 science curriculum
The Year 7 science outcomes we teach, in the curriculum's own words, with the lessons and practice pages for each. Pick an outcome code for the full list of lessons and printables.
Australian Curriculum: Science, version 9.0. Every lesson comes with a printable teacher guide and student sheet.
Science as a human endeavour
AC9S7H03 Examine how proposed scientific responses to contemporary issues may impact on society and explore ethical, environmental, social and economic considerations. Taught in lesson 3, why we don’t use solar power everywhere.
Lessons: Power Up: Where Electricity Comes From (Where does our classroom's electricity come from?, Can the wind power our school?, Why don't we use solar power everywhere?)
Practice: Power Up: Where Electricity Comes From workbook · Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better workbook · Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact workbook
Science inquiry
AC9S7I06 Analyse methods, conclusions and claims for assumptions, possible sources of error, conflicting evidence and unanswered questions. Taught in lessons 2 and 3.
Lessons: Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers (Does salt make water boil faster?, Is that AI answer true?, Which source should we trust?)
Practice: Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers workbook · Stone, Bamboo and Storms: Building in Vietnam workbook
Science understanding
AC9S7U02 Use models, including food webs, to represent matter and energy flow in ecosystems and predict the impact of changing abiotic and biotic factors on populations. Taught in lesson 2, removing the wolves.
Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom?
Practice: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook · Our Living Planet workbook
AC9S7U04 Investigate and represent balanced and unbalanced forces, including gravitational force, acting on objects, and relate changes in an object’s motion to its mass and the magnitude and direction of forces acting on it. Taught in lessons 1 and 3.
AC9S7U05 Use particle theory to describe the arrangement of particles in a substance, including the motion of and attraction between particles, and relate this to the properties of the substance. Taught in lessons 1 to 4.
Lessons: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move
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