Year 10 Science

The Australian Curriculum: Classroom Approaches science units were originally designed to align with Version 3 of the Australian Curriculum (2012) but have recently been updated to align with Version 9 (2024). The four units provide adaptable and scalable learning pathways that can be shaped for use in diverse classroom contexts, and hopefully provide inspiration for locally developed units of work for other depth studies and areas of the curriculum. Click the "Download Year 10 Units" button to get a PDF of the units outlined below.

Year 10 Units Overview

UNIT ONE: MOVING RIGHT ALONG

  • Enduring Understandings:

    • Good drivers use the laws of physics to describe and predict the motion of a car.

    • In a collision, energy is transferred to other objects or transformed into other types of energy, but the total amount of energy stays the same.

  • Performance Task:

    • Practical investigation (Pair)

    • Experiment report (Individual)

  • Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S10H02, AC9S10H03, AC9S10H04, AC9S10U05, AC9S10U04, AC9S9U04*

  • General Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Creative and Critical Thinking, Personal & Social Competence, Ethical Behaviour

UNIT TWO: PLASTIC: FRIEND OR FOE?

  • Enduring Understandings:

    • Chemical reactions are used to produce a range of plastics with different properties.

    • Some of the properties of plastics that make them so useful also make them a threat to sustainability.

    • The periodic table is a way of organizing elements based on their characteristics.

  • Performance Task: Plastics information booklet or website (Group)

  • Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S10H01, AC9S10H03, AC9S10H04, AC9S10U06, AC9S10U07, AC9S10U01, AC9S9U07*

  • General Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Creative and Critical Thinking, Personal & Social Competence, Ethical Behaviour, Intercultural Understanding

UNIT THREE: GM AND YOU

  • Enduring Understandings:

    • The production of GM plants and animals has arisen from knowledge of DNA, genes, heredity, and evolution.

    • Science knowledge can help us sustain life on Earth.

    • Science provides evidence that can be used to support an argument.

  • Performance Task: Public awareness campaign (Group)

  • Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S10H02, AC9S10H03, AC9S10H04, AC9S10U01, AC9S10U02

  • General Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Creative and Critical Thinking, Personal & Social Competence, Ethical Behaviour, Intercultural Understanding

UNIT FOUR: SPENDING YOUR RESEARCH DOLLARS

  • Enduring Understandings:

    • Space exploration, climate science, biotechnology; where would you spend the research budget?

  • Performance Task:

    • Background Research BLOG (Pairs)

    • Q&A program (Group)

  • Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S10H01, AC9S10H02, AC9S10H04, AC9S10U03, AC9S10U04, AC9S9U02*

  • General Capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Creative and Critical Thinking, Personal & Social Competence, Ethical Behaviour


    *indicates that this outcome appears in the Australian Curriculum: Science for either the previous or following year.

Alternatively, if you prefer to create your own unit of work, please click the 'DIY Design Template' button below to download an attached Word document template.