Biology: New South Wales
The current syllabus in New South Wales is different in content and sequence to the Australian Curriculum, however there is overlap between Module 1: Cells as the basis of Life and Module 2: Organisation of living things with the national curriculum unit 2 modules: Cells as the basis of life and Multicellular organisms.
These are example schedules to demonstrate the content of the meriSTEM online course as it might map to the NSW curriculum.
Modules 1 & 2
| Module | Use meriSTEM Module | Use meriSTEM Sub-topics | Australian Curriculum Biology Science Understandings | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Revision) | Science Skills | |||
| 1. Cells as the basis of life | Cells as the Basis of Life | 1. Microscopes and cell theory | 39, 40, 45, 46, 52 | |
| 2. Cell Structure & function | 45 – 49 | |||
| 3. Cell structure & function study: Photosynthesis | 47, 49, 52, 54, 55, 59 | |||
| 4. Energy for cells | 53, 44 | |||
| 5. Proteins | 44, 49, 50, 51 | |||
| 2. Organisation of living things | Multicellular Organisms | 1. Cell specialisation | 48, 49, 50, 54, 55, , 56, 57, 60 | |
Note. As this course was designed around the Australian Curriculum, currently the course does not include specifically:
- colonial unicellular organisms
- conducting experiments or investigations
- compare the changes in the composition of the transport medium as it moves around an organism