AC9S9H01

What Year 9 Science students should achieve

Coverage is judged against the achievement standard — not by ticking every content description. These are the official Year 9 Science standard sentences this code builds towards:

• They describe how the processes of sexual and asexual reproduction enable survival of the species.
• They explain observable chemical processes in terms of changes in atomic structure, atomic rearrangement and mass.
• Students explain the role of publication and peer review in the development of scientific knowledge and explain the relationship between science, technologies and engineering.
• They analyse energy conservation in simple systems and apply wave and particle models to describe energy transfer.
• They explain how interactions within and between Earth’s spheres affect the carbon cycle.
• By the end of Year 9 students explain how body systems provide a coordinated response to stimuli.

The Science as a human endeavour progression either side of AC9S9H01

A class can only meet this descriptor if they were taught the one before it. If yours hasn't, that's where the lesson starts — not here.

Other Year 9 Science as a human endeavour codes

• AC9S9H02investigate how advances in technologies enable advances in science, and how science has contributed to developments in technologies and engineering
• AC9S9H03analyse the key factors that contribute to science knowledge and practices being adopted more broadly by society
• AC9S9H04examine how the values and needs of society influence the focus of scientific research