Success in Science 3

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 3 deals with a number of the outcomes specified for Stage 5 in the syllabus and would be used in Years 9 or 10.

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

Table of Contents

• Preamble
• 1 Introduction
  
  • How to use this book
  • Syllabus, programs, lessons tests, reports
• 2 What is 'science'?
• 3 What is 'content' in science?
  
  • Contexts
  • Prescribed Focus Areas
  • Domains
• 4 Writing in science
  
  • Writing answers to science questions
  • Discuss and assess
  • Explain
  • Analyse
  • Justify
• 5 Energy, forces and motion
  
  • The wave model
  • The electromagnetic spectrum
  • Light
  • Colour
  • Reflection and Refraction
  • Rainbows and spectacles
  • Electrical energy
  • Circuits
  • Understanding circuits
  • Voltage and Resistance
  • Ohm's law
  • Parallel and series circuits
  • Nuclear energy
  • Movement
  • Gravity, Mass and Weight
  • Newton's first law
  • Newton's second law
  • Newton's third law
• 6 Earth Space science
  
  • The Big Bang
  • Studying the universe
  • Information can be hard to come by
  • Shifting frequencies
  • Evidence for an unlikely theory: Plate Tectonics
  • The universe
  • How did things get like this?
  • Where to next?
  • Understanding the planet we live on
  • Fossils
  • Geological time
  • Explaining Plate Tectonics
  • Using Plate Tectonics to explain mountains
  • Earthquake prediction
  • The impact of natural events
• 7 The Earth's resources
  
  • Energy resources and the greenhouse effect
  • So, what makes a resource economically important?
  • Managing the environment
• 8 Human impact on ecosystems
  
  • Biotic and abiotic features
  • Materials cycling through ecosystems
  • The nitrogen cycle
  • The carbon cycle
  • Impacts of human activities on the ecosystem
• 9 Answers
• 10 Index and glossary