Semester 1 Objectives

  • Understand how the Earth's rotation creates day and night.
  • Learn that the moon's revolution causes the change in the moon's phases over a lunar month.
  • ​Know the natural environment changes according to the season.
  • Understand the relationship between solar altitudes, length of shadows and temperatures.
  • Understand the relationships between meridian altitudes of each season, length of shadows and temperatures.
  • Be able to explain the source of seasonal changes in relation to the slope of the Earth's axis of rotation and the Earth's revolution.
  • Identify the difference between the true appearance of objects and their appearance as viewed through optical instruments.
  • Find examples of lenses in daily use and explain their functions.
  • Design a tool using a lens.
  • Understand how abiotic components such as light, temperature and water impact living things and how these things adapt themselves to their environment.
  • Identify ecological components including producers, consumers, decomposers and abiotic factors.
  • Understand the interrelationship between the above components and recognize the importance of equilibrium in ecosystems.
  • Understand the causes of environmental pollution.
  • Recognize examples of ecological
    destruction resulting from environmental pollution and understand how humans
    affect ecosystems.
  • Recognize the need for conservation of
    ecosystems and the human efforts to protect them.

Semester 2 Objectives

  • Understand that gas consists of particles and be able to explain its properties.
  • Recognize the relationship between pressure and the volume of a gas as being a change in the distance between particles.
  • Identify techniques for producing oxygen and carbon dioxide and understand their  properties.
  • Investigate situations in which gases are used in everyday life and be able to explain such cases in relation to the properties of these gases.
  • Understand the characteristics of organisms and the environment in which they live.
  • Understand both positive and negative impacts on humans created by a variety of organisms.
  • Find examples of how advanced life science can be applied in everyday life. 
  • Understand the conditions for lighting a bulb by connecting it to batteries with wires.
  • Compare brightness according to the manner of connecting the bulb to the circuit.
  • Learn how to safely and efficiently use electricity and put that learning into practice.
  • Make an electromagnet using wires through which a current flows.

Semester 3 Objectives

  • Know the conditions of combustion and fire extinguishment.
  • Examine the substances produced as a result of combustion.
  • Understand fire prevention and safety measures.
  • State the different forms of simple machines.
  • State that simple machines  reduce the force needed to do work.
  • Describe the tradeoff  between force and distance when using simple machines.
  • Plan a balloon popping  machine.
  • Build the balloon popper.