By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Plan and carry out an investigation, and judge how far your data can be trusted
  • Explain how matter cycles and energy flows through an ecosystem
  • Explain what climate change is doing, to whom, and why
  • Describe what matter is made of, and read the periodic table as a map
  • Build circuits, measure them, and predict them
  • Explain the Sun’s role in nearly everything that happens on Earth
  • Read a scientific claim in the news and know what to check
  • Work safely, and know why each rule exists

The official expectations behind these are in the Curriculum folder.