Success in Science 1

The Success in Science books provide a comprehensive coverage of the New South Wales Board of Studies Science Years 7-10 Syllabus . The series as a whole will address all of the core outcomes of that syllabus. However, science programs are broadly similar across the world. The series should also be useful beyond New South Wales.

Success in Science 1 deals with a number of the outcomes specified for Stage 4 in the syllabus and would be used in Years 7 or 8.

We wrote the Success in Science series for 'out of class' learning.

Table of Contents

• Preamble
• 1 Introduction
  • The Success in Science series
  • How to use this book
  • Syllabus, programs and lessons
• 2 What is 'science'?
• 3 What is 'content' in science?
  • Contexts
  • Prescribed Focus Areas
  • Domains
• 4 The 'language' of science
  
  • Questions that ask you to identify, outline or describe
• 5 Doing science
  • None of us is smarter than all of us
  • School science laboratories
  • Working in groups
  • Recording what we do and see
  • Laboratory notes
  • Another practical report
  • Designing experiments
  • Working safely
• 6 Living Things
  
  • Cells
  • Classification
  • Using keys to get to shared names
  • Classification systems that Biologists use
  • Single celled life
  • Dividing microbes
  • Multi-celled life
  • Arachnids and insects
  • Mammal diversity
  • Between cell and creature
  • Working together
  • Flowering plants
  • Roots, stems and leaves
  • Plant reproduction
  • Classifying plants
  • A close look at me
  • Bones and muscles
  • Heart and lungs
  • Food and waste
• 7 Ecology
  
  • Adaptations
  • Australian adaptations
  • Food chains
  • Food webs
  • Photosynthesis and respiration
  • Australian ecosystems
• 8 Properties of substances
  
  • Particle movement and behaviour
  • Energy and expansion and contraction of matter
  • Solids, liquids and gases
  • Physical changes to matter
  • Density
  • Pressure and gases
  • Changing the state of matter
  • Using the particle model to explain change of state
  • Elements, mixtures and compounds
  • Classifying elements
  • Mixtures
  • Separating mixtures
  • Compounds and reactions
  • Chemical reactions
• 9 Answers
• 10 Index and Glossary