Year 10 Science — concept map (AC v9.0)

Content is organised by the three Year 10 Science strands in Australian Curriculum v9.0. Each topic page lists achievement focus, content descriptions and AC9S10… codes with learning checkpoints.

Science understanding

• Biological: heredity (mitosis, meiosis, DNA, genes, Mendelian patterns); evolution and evidence (U01–U02).
• Earth and space: Big Bang model and evidence; energy flow between geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere; climate patterns (U03–U04).
• Physical: Newton’s laws; quantitative force–mass–acceleration (U05).
• Chemical: atomic structure and periodic trends; synthesis, decomposition, displacement; reaction rates (U06–U07).

Science as a human endeavour

• Validating knowledge; publication and peer review (H01).
• Science ↔ technology ↔ engineering (H02).
• Adoption of science in society (H03).
• Values, needs and research priorities (H04).

Science inquiry

• Investigable questions, hypotheses; fair, reproducible investigations; ethics and cultural protocols (I01–I02).
• Equipment, precision, representations, analysis, evaluation of methods and claims (I03–I06).
• Evidence-based arguments; ethical use of secondary data; communication for audience and purpose (I07–I08).

Study strategy

Use the quizzes to find weak areas, then revisit the matching topic pages.