NCEA Level 1 Science


 * Cover
 * Overview

Collaborative learning modules

Nature of science



 * 1. Investigating in science
 * Develop and carry out more complex investigations, including using models.
 * Show an increasing awareness of the complexity of working scientifically, including recognition of multiple variables.
 * Begin to evaluate the suitability of the investigative methods chosen.

Living world
Assessments


 * 2. Life processes
 * Relate key structural features and functions to the life processes of plants, animals, and micro-organisms and investigate environmental factors that affect these processes.


 * 3. Ecology
 * Investigate the impact of natural events and human actions on a New Zealand ecosystem.


 * 4. Evolution
 * Explore patterns in the inheritance of genetically controlled characteristics.
 * Explain the importance of variation within a changing environment.

Planet earth and beyond
Assessments


 * 5. Earth systems
 * Investigate the external and internal processes that shape and change the surface features of New Zealand.


 * 6. Interacting systems
 * Develop an understanding of how the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere interact to cycle carbon around Earth.


 * 7. Astronomical systems
 * Investigate the interactions between the solar, lunar, and Earth cycles and the effect of these on Earth.

Physical world
Assessments


 * 8. Physical inquiry and physics concepts
 * Investigate trends and relationships in physical phenomena (in the areas of mechanics, electricity, electromagnetism, heat, light and waves, and atomic and nuclear physics).
 * Demonstrate an understanding of physical phenomena and concepts by explaining and solving questions and problems that relate to straightforward situations.


 * 9. Using physics
 * Investigate how physics knowledge is used in a technological or biological application.

Material world
Assessments


 * 10. Properties and changes of matter
 * Identify patterns and trends in the properties of a range of groups of substances, for example, acids and bases, metals, metal compounds, and hydrocarbons.
 * Explore factors that affect chemical processes.


 * 11. The structure of matter
 * Distinguish between atoms, molecules, and ions (includes covalent and ionic bonding).
 * Link atomic structure to the organisation of the periodic table.
 * Use particle theory to explain factors that affect chemical processes.


 * 12.Chemistry and society
 * Investigate how chemical knowledge is used in a technological application of chemistry.