What Your Child Will Learn with Alex

As an experienced Year 7 Science tutor, Alex strictly adheres to the official Victorian Curriculum. She ensures students master all required areas and meet the achievement standards set by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. Here's what students will cover throughout the year:

Science as a Human Endeavour

Alex will guide students to understand how scientific knowledge evolves as new evidence becomes available. Students will explore how science and technology contribute to solutions for contemporary issues and the ethical considerations these solutions may involve. These fundamental concepts help students appreciate the dynamic nature of scientific knowledge

Biological Sciences

Students will learn about the diversity within and between groups of organisms and how classification helps organize this diversity. Alex will teach them about cells as the basic units of living things with specialized structures and functions. Students will explore interactions between organisms through food chains and food webs, including how human activity affects these interactions. They'll also study how multicellular organisms contain systems of organs with specialized functions enabling survival and reproduction.

Chemical Sciences

Alex will help students understand that mixtures, including solutions, contain combinations of pure substances that can be separated using various techniques. Students will explore how the properties of different states of matter can be explained using particle motion and arrangement. They'll learn to describe differences between elements, compounds, and mixtures using particle models and understand that chemical change involves substances reacting to form new substances.

Earth and Space Sciences

Students will study predictable phenomena on Earth, including seasons and eclipses, caused by the relative positions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon. Alex will teach them about renewable and non-renewable resources, the water cycle, and how sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks contain minerals formed by processes occurring within Earth over various timescales.

Physical Sciences

Alex will guide students in understanding how unbalanced forces cause changes to an object's motion, including Earth's gravity pulling objects toward its center. Students will explore different forms of energy (kinetic, heat, light, chemical, potential) and how devices can transform energy between forms. They'll learn how light forms images using curved mirrors and lenses, and how sound properties can be explained using wave models.

Science Inquiry Skills

Throughout the year, Alex will develop students' abilities to identify questions for scientific investigation, plan and conduct experiments, measure variables, and collect accurate data. Students will learn to construct and use various representations to record data, use scientific knowledge to evaluate claims and draw conclusions, reflect on investigation methods, and communicate scientific ideas and findings using appropriate language and representations.