Externally Set Task Syllabus Points

• Science Inquiry Skills


  1. Identify, research and construct questions for investigation

  2. Propose hypotheses

  3. Predict possible outcomes

  4. Design investigations, including procedure, materials, and data collection

  5. Conduct risk assessments

  6. Consider research ethics, including animal ethics

  7. Represent data in meaningful and useful ways

  8. Organise and analyse data to identify trends, patterns and relationships

  9. Discuss ways measurement error, instrumental accuracy, procedure, and sample size may influence uncertainty and limitations

  10. Select, synthesise and use evidence to make and justify conclusions
• Skeletal damage caused by many sporting injuries are due to movements beyond the capabilities of the bones and joints, and treatment can be by basic first aid and medication, or radical surgery
• Skeletal System


  The support and movement of the body is facilitated by the structure and function of the bones and joints in the skeletal system
• Skeletal System


  • The location and structure of joints in the skeleton allow for a range of movement
• Nervous System


  • The nervous system enables us to respond to external changes
  • Information from receptors passes along nerves to the brain where the brain coordinates the response
• Nervous System


  • Reflex actions are automatic and rapid, which involve sensory neurons, interneurons and motor neurons