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Year 10 Trial School Certificate

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Year 10 are to be congratulated on their attitude, effort and behaviour in this term's Trial School Certificate English exam.

All students completed the exam to the best of their ability and should look forward to achieving pleasing results.

Students should be reminded as part of their study routine to go online to the Board of Studies website and complete as many past exam papers as possible.

 (http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/schoolcertificate/sc_english.html)

 

Welcome to the Science Faculty

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The exciting world of science is opened up to students at Gorakan High School with a range of inovative programs. Interesting and diverse topics in years 7 to 10 give students a solid grounding in the nature and practice of science, as well as an understanding of how the concepts we learn at school underpin the technology of the modern world.

Contact  Marie Grant  phone 02 4393 7000

                                           fax  02 4393 1157

 

science programs

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Year

Module

Module Name

7

7.1

Can You Live Without It?

 

7.2

Are Humans Animals?

 

7.3

What Is It Made Of?

 

7.4

Are We Alone?

8

8.1

Why Is It So?

 

8.2

How Many Cells Do You Need?

 

8.3

Can We Separate It?

 

8.4

What’s Beneath our Feet?

9

9.1

How Have Humans Changed Things?

 

9.2

How Do We Use Energy?

 

9.3

Are We Sitting on a Time Bomb?

 

9.4

How Did It All Begin?

10

10.1

What Keeps You Going?

 

10.2

Why Do Some Chemicals React?

 

10.3

Why Are We All Unique?

 

S.C. Revision

Revision of knowledge outcomes using revision books supplied

 

 

 

 

Science Classes

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Marine and Aquaculture

7P We are participating in the Bagasaurus Explorus - 2010 Autumn Water Bug Survey 31st March - Our survey shown that the Creek behind the school is in poor condition with high pollution index. Thanks to our work, the Council is analysing how to improve the environment.

 

 

Science Links

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ABC Science

Dr Karl on Triplej

National Science Week 15-23 August

School certificate test papers

HSC test papers

ESSA Test Site

 

Science News

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Science Competitions

Science competition - ICAS: 9th June 2010

Science Club

The Science Club started again this term!
Fill up the membership form and pay the membership fee ($5) at the front office and participate.

The Science Club meets every Monday lunch in Lab 5. We develop experiments, research and investigations to participate in Science competitions.

Current projects:

Bacteria growth in the blue tongue lizard's mouth.
Lego Robotics.
The Physics behind the Roller Coaster.
Auto-robots.

Science In The City - 2009

Students from years 7-10 represented our school at a science expo and workshop in Newcastle on the 15th of September.

They attended an informative and entertaining presentation by JJJ's Dr Karl, learned about how science is changing the art of film making, and took the challenge to program robots to bowl over ten pins.

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