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11–12Chemical World Science Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2025)

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Implementation from 2028
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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.

Chemical quantities

Teachers select relevant Working scientifically outcomes and content to integrate with this focus area based on the strengths and needs of individual students.

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Measuring chemical quantities

  • Observe and recognise features of packaging and information labels on familiar household products

  • Identify ingredients in familiar household products

  • Recognise units of measurement and their abbreviations listed on familiar household products

  • Identify the capacities of familiar pieces of measuring equipment

  • Arrange measuring equipment in order from smallest to largest capacity

  • Select and use measuring equipment according to its capacity

  • Follow a procedure to measure the required amounts of each substance for a mixture

  • Record measurement data using appropriate units and abbreviations

  • Explore Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Practices to measure amounts of substances for a mixture

  • Compare amounts of substances used and left over when forming mixtures

Solutions

  • Identify familiar solutions in everyday living

  • Recognise that a solution can be made by dissolving a soluble substance in a liquid

  • Identify components of familiar solutions in everyday living

  • Recognise and use the terms ‘solute’, ‘solvent’ and ‘solution’ to refer to components of solutions

  • Follow a procedure to measure the required amounts of each substance for a solution

  • Sequence solutions from most diluted to most concentrated

  • Compare properties of diluted and concentrated solutions

  • Demonstrate ways to change the concentration of a solution

  • Compare the amount of solute in diluted and concentrated solutions using models

  • Participate in a practical investigation to change the concentration of a solution

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