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Year 8 APP Lessons
WALT: We are learning about how science uses models to explain our world, and how scientists collect evidence to help support or change these models.
Case Studies: How scientific evidence is checked by scientists, models for magnetism, the Bermuda triangle mystery.
Mini LAT: Models to explain the Bermuda Triangle.
WALT: We are learning about how science exists in our everyday lives, from the jobs people to do to how science changes our lives for better or for worse.
Case Studies: Jobs linked to science, scientists and their solutions, the development of rocket science.
Mini LAT: Dr Who: Meddling with the history of rocket science.
WALT: We are learning about ways of presenting (and misrepresenting) scientific results using tables and different types of graph.
Case Studies: Recognizing and using different types of graph, presenting data on the effect of Swine flu vs. the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918 using tables, bar and line graphs.
Mini LAT:Mending damaged joints: the glucosamine sulphate remedy.
WALT: We are learning about how scientists plan experiments in order to minimize risks and collect reliable data.
Case Studies: The language of variables and the role of fair testing. Review of different methods for collecting data. Risk assessment.
Mini LAT: Finding the best insulator.
WALT: We are learning about how methods need to be carefully examined, and how data must be evaluated when coming to scientific conclusions.
Case Studies: Fire walking- magic or science? Life from electricity- the work of Andrew Crosse.
Mini LAT: Chromatography and the search for the graffiti vandal.
Year 8 APP Level Assessed Tasks
Year 8 Level Assessed WebQuests