New Senior Secondary

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New Senior Secondary Integrated Science (S4-6)
Curriculum
Curriculum Development Institute April, 2007
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NSS Integrated Science (S4-6)

• For students of diverse interests to provide a
  broad spectrum of science education to students
• To enhance students ability in systematic
  inquiry, awareness and understanding of issues
  related to STSE
• To develop students scientific literacy
  promote informed decision-making
• Prepare for further study/career in fields where
  a knowledge of science is useful

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Curriculum Framework
Unifying Concepts
Systems, order
Form and function
Change, constancy,
evolution equilibrium
Evidence, models
organization
explanation
Nature of Science
Scientific thinking
Scientific attitude
Scientific practice
Scientific community
Key Ideas in Science
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Module Titles

• Compulsory Modules (24 hrs each)
• Water for Living (????)
• Balance Within Our Body (????)
• Science in a Sprint (????)
• Chemical Patterns (????????)
• Electrical Enlightenment (????)
• Balance in Nature (???????)
• Radiation and Us (????)
• From Genes to Life (?????)
• Elective Modules (2 out of 3, 32 hrs each)
• Energy, Weather and Air Quality (??????????)
• Keeping Ourselves Healthy (????)
• Chemistry for World Needs (????)

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C1 Water for Living ????

• Physical environment
• Water Cycle
• Climatic effect
• Greenhouse effect

• Sustaining life
• Medium for biological reactions
• Reactant in biological systems
• Temperature regulation
• Support
• Life below icy surfaces
• Life begins in water

• Uses
• Solvent
• Cleaning
• Cooling agent

Physical properties Chemical properties
Water

• Water distribution and civilisation
• Agriculture
• Economic development

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C2 Balance within Our Body ????
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C3 Science in a Sprint ????
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C4 Chemical Patterns ????????
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Electrical Enlightenment ????
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C6 Balance in Nature
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• C7 Radiation and Us ????

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C8 From Genes to Life ?????

• Proteins
• Enzymes
• Structural components
• Regulatory molecules

DNA
RNA
Life phenomena
Replication

• Application of DNA technology
• Genetic screening
• Cloning
• Genetically-modified crops
• Gene therapy

Discovery of DNA as the genetic materials
Genetic basis of diversity, evolution and genetic
diseases
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From Genes to Life ?????
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Energy, Weather and Air Quality ??????????
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Energy, Weather and Air Quality
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E2 Keeping Ourselves Healthy ????

• Health
• Meaning of health
• Factors affecting health
• Body defence against pathogens

• Our role in maintaining health
• Healthy life style
• Personal and household hygiene

• Diseases
• Understanding diseases
• Non-infectious diseases
• Risk factors
• Prevention
• Infectious diseases
• Pathogens
• Ways of transmission
• Bacterial and viral diseases

• Governments role in public health
• Services for screening genetic diseases
• and genetic counselling
• Facilities and services for maintaining
• public hygiene
• Immunisation programme
• Health education

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E3 Chemistry for World Needs????
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Module highlights

• Nature of Science
• appreciate that scientific theories evolve with
  new evidence (e.g. scientists came to refute
  protein as the genetic material when emerging
  experimental evidence pointed to DNA) (C8)

• Unifying Concepts
• recognise that the molecular structure of
  detergent enables it to become an emulsifying
  agent in cleaning processes (form and function)
  (E3)

• Science-Technology-Society-Environment
• develop the skills for making risk-benefit
  analyses in considering the use of radioactive
  decay in medical diagnosis and therapies, and in
  generating electricity (C7)

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Thank you!

• science_at_emb.gov.hk
• http//www.emb.gov.hk/cd/sc