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11–12Biology Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2025)

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Implementation from 2027
Expand for detailed implementation advice
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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 6

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Biology in context

Relevant Working scientifically outcomes and content should be integrated with each focus area based on the strengths and needs of individual students.

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Animals and plants

  • Create an animal care checklist for a familiar animal

  • Explore technologies that help to care for a specific animal

  • Explore potential difficulties of large-scale plant growth

  • Explore pest control methods used in the local area

  • Compare pest control methods based on their safety and environmental impact

  • Outline how familiar plants are commercially grown in nurseries, farms or orchards

  • Participate in a secondary-source investigation to explore human interventions to improve the traits or production of plants

The human body

  • Identify how medicines impact the body

  • Describe the dangers of taking medicines incorrectly

  • Explore current technologies used to manage a non-infectious disease

  • Participate in a scientific investigation to determine the frequency of a familiar or observable genetic trait

  • Explore dominant and recessive genetic traits

  • Participate in a scientific investigation to explore how traits can be influenced by both inheritance and environment

Ecosystems

  • Explore the effects of humans on a local ecosystem

  • Outline Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Practices that reduce human impact on the environment

  • Describe current regulations to control human impact on the local community

  • Create a timeline showing key changes to an ecosystem

  • Participate in a scientific investigation to describe the biodiversity in a local or familiar area

Diseases

  • Explore how technology is used to maintain and communicate health records, including records of vaccinations

  • Investigate health services in the local community and how they contribute to the prevention or treatment of disease

  • Explore how an educational program or campaign supports the prevention or management of disease

  • Create an action plan for promoting health in the local community

  • Explore Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander methods for making medicines from Country

  • Identify technologies used to prevent or treat disease

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