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Integrated Science

Overview

The Integrated Science curriculum for junior Secondary (Grade 7 and Grade 8) aims to cultivate students' scientific literacy, curiosity, and critical thinking skills. Through hands-on experimentation, inquiry-based learning, and interdisciplinary project work, we empower students to explore the wonders of the natural world, develop essential laboratory skills, and understand the impact of science on everyday life.

Curriculum Highlights

Core Framework

Grade Core Units Key Learning Foci
Grade 7
  • Unit 1: Introducing Science
  • Unit 2: Water
  • Unit 3: Looking at Living Things
  • Unit 4: Cells and Human Reproduction
  • Unit 5: Energy
  • Unit 6: Matter as Particles
  • Mastering laboratory safety, apparatus usage, and the scientific method.
  • Exploring the properties, purification, and conservation of water.
  • Investigating biodiversity, classification keys and cellular structures.
  • Examining human reproductive systems and physical growth.
  • Exploring energy forms, conversion and transfer.
  • Discovering the particulate nature and states of matter.
Grade 8
  • Unit 7: Living Things and Air
  • Unit 8: Making Use of Electricity
  • Unit 9: Acids and Alkalis
  • Unit 10: Sensing the Environment
  • Unit 11: Force and Motion
  • Examining the properties of air, respiration, and photosynthesis.
  • Constructing series and parallel circuits, understanding voltage, and electrical safety.
  • Testing substances using pH indicators, studying neutralisation.
  • Investigating how human sense organs detect stimuli and perceive the world.
  • Exploring concepts of speed/balanced and unbalanced forces, friction, and gravity.

Academic Activities

Science comes alive outside the textbook. During our annual STEAM Week and throughout the academic year, Grade 7 and Grade 8 students actively engage in hands-on, competitive design challenges that integrate engineering, physics, chemistry and biology.

Magnetic Motor Zoetrope Challenge

Students apply concepts of electromagnetism and kinetics to construct functional, rotating animation devices.

D.I.Y. Energetic Musical Instrument

Constructing custom instruments to explore sound waves, frequency, and electrical/mechanical energy transformations.

Visit to InnoTech & AI Exhibition

An experiential visit to the Science Museum’s latest galleries, exposing students to cutting-edge artificial intelligence, automation, and LivingTech innovations through an interactive indoor orienteering task.

Bridge Building Competition

A structural engineering challenge where students analyze forces, tension, and compression to build weight-bearing bridge models.

Water Rocket with Parachute

An experiential exploration of aerodynamics and Newton's laws of motion, culminated in competitive launches and recovery designs.