9 History

In Grade 9 history students have finished a short unit on slavery and are now starting their inquiry into the establishment of Australia as initially a colony in the British empire. This is part of the study of movement of people in the 18th and 19th centuries.

93 Packages of Learning

Term 3 Science in PoL has seen the students looking at Regulation of the body’s systems and what happens when things go wrong and are about to start looking at Reproduction, focussing initially on how plants ‘get it on’, then moving onto asexual strategies employed by plants, fungi, and bacteria.

Students dissected a cow’s eye and found their favourite part of the eye was the Cornea, which resemble a gelatinous marble.

In PoL English we are taking on a Journalism lens and learning how to be succinct and creative in reporting on current events, comparing printed media verse online news and how most of us get our news from social media platforms.

In PoL history students are finishing up the culmination of the Industrial Revolution leading to several massive revolutions and conflicts and the turbulence of the change in times and peoples rights preceding World War 1.

Pythagoras and Trigonometry

The start of Term 3 has seen Year 9 students explore Pythagoras in Mathematics. Students have explored when they see right angle triangles in architecture and engineering, including bridges. This led to students to research, design and create pasta bridges to investigate why right-angle triangles provide strength to structures. Students are now investigating the Trigonometry ratios which allows for angles within triangles to be solved.

Grade 9 Team