Year 8
Year 7–8 Science: The Earth, Sun & Moon
Day and night, years and leap years, why we have seasons, phases of the Moon as seen from Australia, solar and lunar eclipses (including Sydney's 2028 total eclipse), tides, and First Nations astronomy.
Year 8
Year 8
Year 7–8 Science: Forces & Simple Machines
Contact and non-contact forces, force diagrams, balanced and unbalanced forces, mass and weight, Newton's laws in everyday life, friction, and the six simple machines with levers, ramps and pulleys worked through.
Year 8
Year 7–8 Science: Ecosystems
Biotic and abiotic factors, producers, consumers and decomposers, food chains and webs, energy pyramids, cycling of matter, and how habitat loss, climate change, migration and introduced species change populations, with Australian case studies.
Year 8
Year 7–8 Science: Classifying Living Things
Why we classify, the levels from kingdom to species, scientific names, vertebrate and invertebrate groups, Australia's unusual mammals, and how to use and build dichotomous keys. Covers the Victorian Levels 7–8 classification content.
Year 8
Year 8 Science: Exam Revision Hub
Start here for Year 8 Science exams: a topic map linking all eleven guides (seven national, four Victorian), a two-week plan, every key term as flashcards, and a 60-mark mock exam with full answers.
Year 8
Year 8 Science: Working Scientifically
How to plan, run and write up an investigation: questions and hypotheses, variables and fair tests, risk and ethics, precise measurement, tables and graphs, anomalies and errors, conclusions, and how science knowledge changes and is communicated.
Year 8
Year 8 Science: Matter & Chemical Change
The particle model, atoms and elements, symbols and formulas, compounds and mixtures, separation techniques, physical vs chemical change, energy in reactions, word equations and the classic gas tests.
Year 8
Year 8 Science: Energy
Kinetic and potential energy, conservation of energy, flow and Sankey diagrams, efficiency, conduction, convection and radiation, electric circuits, household energy use and renewable sources. Diagrams, answer-checkers and practice.
Year 8
Year 8 Science: Rocks & the Rock Cycle
Minerals and how to identify them, igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, the rock cycle and its timescales, how rock properties decide their uses and how they're mined, with Australian examples and a rock identification key.
Year 8
Year 8 Science: Plate Tectonics
Earth's layers, how plates move, what forms at each type of boundary, and the evidence that turned continental drift into plate tectonics, from fossils to magnetic stripes and GPS. Includes Australia's place on a moving plate.
Year 8
Year 8 Science: Body Systems
From cells to tissues, organs and systems: the human digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems, how a plant transports water and food, what happens when systems fail, and artificial organs. Diagrams and exam-style practice.
Year 8
Year 8 Science: Cells
Cell theory, plant and animal cells, organelles and what they do, specialised cells, and how to use a microscope, including magnification and size calculations. Diagrams, answer-checkers and exam-style practice.