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Welcome to Science. Science is taught in Year 10 through a series of topics. Each topic takes approximately 4 - 6 weeks to teach. Assessment will be through homework assignments, projects and an end of topic exam. Each test is approximately 40 minutes and will be carried out under test conditions.Some topics may have NCEA Level 1 credits available. Doing well in your assessments is extremely important as they help determine what Science course you can go on and do in Year 11. In November you will have a longer end of year examination which will test all the Science work that you have covered in Year 10.

The topics are as follows:

Fire and Fuels - chemistry of carbon based fuels Humans and disease - respiratory and circulatory systems, plus genetic disorders Electricity - what is electricity? and how can it be measured and controlled. Metals ... understanding their properties and uses. Ecology - how do living organisms interact. Earth Science - how our surface world shaped by the forces of nature.

This may not necessarily be the order in which your Science teacher will teach the topics. This wiki has dedicated pages for each topic with resources to help you catch up on missed work and prepare for your end of topic exams. Some of your teachers may have a dedicated page for your class which will give you more information about specific tasks set in lessons.

There is plenty of work you for you here that you can do to keep up to date. Just click on one of the links to the left.

Some extra activities and information may be found at [|Cashmere Moodle].

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