Good Science Victorian Curriculum Year 7

CONTENTS
Curriculum correlation grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VI
SCIENCE SKILLS. 2
Chapter 1
Science skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1 Safety in science. 4
1.2 Laboratory equipment . 6
1.3 Collecting and using data . 8
1.4 Questioning, predicting
and planning. 10
1.5 Writing investigation reports . 12
Visual summary . 14
Final challenge . 15
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES . 16
Chapter 2
Classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.1 Classifying living things . 18
2.2 Classification keys . 20
2.3 The Linnaean classification system. 22
2.4 Classifying animals. 24
2.5 Classifying plants. 26
2.6 Classifying fungi. 28
2.7 Classifying kingdoms Protista
and Monera. 30
Visual summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Final challenge. 33
Chapter 3
Ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.1 Producers, consumers and decomposers . 36
3.2 Food chains and food webs. 38
3.3 Community interactions in an ecosystem. 40
3.4 How microorganisms affect
ecosystems. 42
3.5 Human impacts on ecosystems . 44
3.6 Impact of agriculture on ecosystems. 46
3.7 Indigenous management of
ecosystems. 48
Visual summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Final challenge. 51
CHEMICAL SCIENCES. 52
Chapter 4
States of matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
4.1 The particle model . 54
4.2 Heat energy and particles. 56
4.3 Adding or removing heat. 58
4.4 Changing states. 60
4.5 Density. 62
Visual summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Final challenge. 65
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