Year: 8 – Compulsory
Length: Full Year
Contact Person: Justin Lodge & Ryan O’Neill
Content: STEM is taught using an integrated approach with units collaboratively planned by a dedicated team of specialist subject teachers, who contextualise the learning and pose real-world problems for students to solve relating to a common theme. These integrated STEM units are aligned to the Australian Curriculum and draw on concepts and procedures from mathematics and science while incorporating team work, the design methodology of engineering and using relevant technology.
Pedagogy is aligned to the SA Teaching for Effective learning (TfEL) framework and teachers embrace inquiry, project-based and challenge-based approaches to learning. Students have the opportunity to work individually and collaboratively in teams with emphasis on developing critical and creative thinking, communication and problem solving skills.
Students are expected to embrace challenges and opportunities in STEM, both within and outside of lessons, through Clare High School STEM facilities, extracurricular projects, incursions, competitions and excursions.
Content covered: Working in the Laboratory, Cells, Body Systems, Matter, Elements, compounds and mixtures, Chemical Change, Rocks and geology, Energy, Number and place value, Real numbers, Money and financial mathematics, Patterns and algebra, Linear and non-linear relationships, Measurement, Geometric reasoning, Probability, and Data representation and interpretation.
Assessment: Students are assessed using the Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards.