This unit teaches students to understand how living things depend on each other, Earth’s systems, and energy to survive. They investigate the relationship between habitats, ecosystems, and environments. Students learn to conduct fair tests by examining how soil, water, and light affect plant growth and represent their results digitally.

Unit 1 – Science and Technology, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 39.9 MB)

This unit teaches students to explore how designers draw inspiration from nature’s solutions to create structures, products, and systems that meet human needs. Students generate design ideas for a space within the school, experimenting with materials and construction methods to develop and evaluate models that mirror nature’s efficiency. They also use digital systems to design algorithms and represent data in various forms.

• Unit 2 – Science and Technology, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 50.1 MB)
• Unit 2 – Design journal – Science and Technology, Stage 2 (staff only) (PPTX 9.9 MB)

This unit teaches students how forces from wind, water, and living things shape Earth’s surface. Students use models to describe how moving water causes erosion. Learning includes exploration of Torres Strait Islander Legends and Aboriginal Dreaming Stories about landscapes and landforms. Students model the internal structure of Earth and research the changes to the landscape caused by earthquakes and volcanoes.

Unit 3 – Science and Technology, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 23.7 MB)

This unit teaches students to investigate the differences between invertebrates and vertebrates and compare the ways they move in different environments. Students explore the human muscular and skeletal systems and use models to demonstrate how these systems work together in movement.

Unit 4 – Science and Technology, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 20 MB)

This unit teaches students about the dynamics of Earth's revolution around the Sun, the role of solar energy, and the gravitational forces that govern the positions of planets in our solar system. Students investigate the features of the solar system and examine cultural references associated with these celestial bodies. Students use the core features of common digital tools and explore how data can be represented.

Unit 5 – Science and Technology, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 24 MB)

In this unit, students learn that design is a process of creating and innovating by exploring how humans survive in space. They explore the design of structures, products and places that address astronaut needs, and they generate, develop and communicate design ideas for living beyond Earth. Students test construction methods and materials to understand how properties influence performance, then build, test and evaluate a designed model using iterative improvements. They also research processes used to provide food and clothing in space, connecting design decisions to real survival challenges in extreme environments.

• Unit 6 – Science and Technology, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 18.8 MB)
• Unit 6 – Design journal – Science and Technology, Stage 2 (staff only) (PPTX 25.5 MB)

This unit teaches students to observe properties of matter and explore the relationship between heat energy and particles when matter is changing state. They undertake activities that demonstrate water changing state from solid to liquid to gas and back again. Students design algorithms that use branching and iteration.

Unit 7 – Science and Technology, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 9.9 MB)

This unit teaches students to recognise that heat energy is transferred through conduction, convection, and radiation. They pose questions and conduct fair tests to compare how different materials absorb or reflect heat energy.

Students represent different data types using digital tools. They test materials and investigate heat transfer to make a recommendation to the school for suitable lunch containers for student use.

Unit 8 – Science and Technology, Stage 2 (staff only) (DOCX 30.5 MB)