Science is vital to everyday life and allows us to understand and shape the world in which we live and influence its future. Scientists play a key role in meeting society’s needs in areas such as medicine, energy, industry, material development, the environment and sustainability.
The course contains the following units:
Science: Fragile Earth
Learners will focus on two choices from the following four:
They will investigate these resources through activities related to their source, origin, production and/or extraction. Learners will gain knowledge of how science is involved in environmental issues.
Science: Human Health
This Unit covers the individual’s immediate health, expanding to taking responsibility for the family’s health. It then looks at health within the community, and finally global issues affecting health.
Applications of Science
This Unit lets learners explore science’s contribution to communication technologies, new materials and how science helps the understanding of risk and how it can be reduced in modern life
Added Value Unit: Science Assignment
Learners will draw on and extend the skills they have learned from across the other Units.