Grade 12 Science: Values and life skills

In this unit, 'Leadership and ethics', you learn to lead a team project with an ethical review. You work with exam-style questions and written reasoning. You see it, say it, then do it alone.

• Listen and talk: hear a short story, text or example linked to 'Leadership and ethics' and say what it means in your own words.
• Connect: name one place in your own day where it applies.
• Use it: lead a team project with an ethical review. Practise with care and respect, in class and at home.
• Reflect: what went well, what was hard, and one thing you will do next time.

Step by step.

1. Step 1, The project: Learner A leads a team of four on a lab project measuring the time a trolley takes to roll down a ramp. Roles: Learner A leads, Learner B measures, Learner C records, Learner D analyses the data.
2. Step 2, Ethical rules: Record every trial honestly, do not change data to match a hoped result, give credit for help and report all methods. These rules are agreed and written in the project log before the first trial.
3. Step 3, The data: Five timing trials in seconds are 12.1, 12.3, 11.9, 12.2 and 14.8. The sum is 63.3, so the mean is 63.3 divided by 5, which is 12.66 seconds. The last result is far from the others.
4. Step 4, The temptation: Hamad suggests deleting 14.8 without saying so, because it spoils the neat result. Aref asks, 'Would we be comfortable explaining this to our teacher?' The team decides the outlier cannot be silently removed.
5. Step 5, The honest treatment: They investigate and find that Dina stopped the timer late on trial 5. They report all five values and explain the probable error. Without that trial the mean is 48.5 divided by 4, which is 12.125 seconds.
6. Step 6, Review the leadership: The report shows both means, 12.66 and 12.125, and states the reason. The team rates itself out of 5: honesty 5, method 4, teamwork 4. Aref notes that one more trial would have helped. Honest reporting makes results trustworthy.
7. Your turn: Trials 8.0, 8.2, 8.1 and 9.9. What do you report? Model answer: all four values; mean with all is 34.2 divided by 4, which is 8.55; without 9.9 it is 8.1; explain the cause and repeat the trial.

Activity. About 40 to 50 minutes of class work, then one short practice task for home. Keep evidence: a timed paper and an error log.

Standard to meet. Lead a team project with an ethical review: at least 70 percent on an exam-style task, with the method shown.

In this unit, 'Preparing for university and work', you learn to prepare a study plan, a CV and a statement of purpose. You work with exam-style questions and written reasoning. You see it, say it, then do it alone.

• Listen and talk: hear a short story, text or example linked to 'Preparing for university and work' and say what it means in your own words.
• Connect: name one place in your own day where it applies.
• Use it: prepare a study plan, a CV and a statement of purpose. Practise with care and respect, in class and at home.
• Reflect: what went well, what was hard, and one thing you will do next time.

Step by step.

1. Step 1, Study plan: A learner has 8 weeks before exams and plans 20 hours per week: Mathematics 6, Physics 5, Chemistry 5, Computer Science 4. Check 6 plus 5 plus 5 plus 4 is 20. Over 8 weeks that is 160 hours.
2. Step 2, Weekly schedule: Maths gets three 2-hour sessions of problem practice; Physics and Chemistry each get one 2-hour session of theory and one 3-hour session of past-style questions; Computer Science gets four 1-hour coding sessions.
3. Step 3, CV structure: Name and contact, profile, education with subjects, projects, achievements and skills. Example bullet: 'Built a Python program to log lab readings, reducing a 30-minute table task to 5 minutes.' It fits one page.
4. Step 4, Evidence and honesty: He replaces 'good at coding' with the project bullet above and lists only skills he can demonstrate. Claiming a language he cannot use would be dishonest and could fail an interview.
5. Step 5, Statement of purpose: Limit 250 words: 40 words on the problem that interests him, 80 on why engineering, 80 on evidence from the lab project and courses, 50 on goals. 40 plus 80 plus 80 plus 50 is 250.
6. Step 6, Review: A teacher checks facts, he reads it aloud for flow, and he tracks hours weekly, aiming for 18 of 20. He keeps a second pathway in mind in case marks differ, because plans should be flexible.
7. Your turn: Plan 18 hours a week over 10 weeks for 3 science subjects. Model answer: for example 6 hours each; 18 times 10 is 180 hours; add timed past questions every second week and a rest day.

Activity. About 40 to 50 minutes of class work, then one short practice task for home. Keep evidence: a timed paper and an error log.

Standard to meet. Prepare a study plan, a CV and a statement of purpose: at least 70 percent on an exam-style task, with the method shown.

On the slide: L1 Basic · Kind and safe

Notes: Show one kind action and state one safe rule, such as telling a trusted adult when worried. Notes: role-play sharing a toy; learners name three trusted adults and practise saying clearly, stop, I do not like that.

On the slide: L2 Awareness · Feelings and honesty

Notes: Name four feelings and say why telling the truth matters. Notes: use a feelings chart for happy, sad, angry and scared; read a short story of a broken cup and let learners practise saying what happened and offering to help fix it.

On the slide: L3 Foundation · Friends and small savings

Notes: Settle a small disagreement by listening and save a small amount regularly. Notes: practise the sentence I feel ... when ...; for money, save 10 from a weekly 50, which reaches 80 after 8 weeks, and learners say what they would plan to buy.

On the slide: L4 Practitioner · Choices, budget and online safety

Notes: Weigh choices, keep a simple budget and protect personal information online. Notes: use stop, think, choose; split an income of 200 into needs 120, wants 50 and savings 30, which adds back to 200. Learners list four things never to share online.

On the slide: L5 Specialist · Wellbeing and responsibility

Notes: Plan study, rest and sleep, and give a respectful no under peer pressure. Notes: teenagers usually need about 8 to 10 hours of sleep, so waking at 6:30 means bed by 21:30 for 9 hours. Learners plan one week and rehearse a calm refusal in pairs.

This course: Grade 12 Science Values and life skills is at this level. Its units include Leadership and ethics; Preparing for university and work.

On the slide: L6 Advanced · Ethics and behaviour evidence

Notes: Evaluate ethical frameworks and psychology evidence on habits, stress and decision making. Notes: compare consequence, duty and character approaches on one dilemma. Practice: 1,000 saved at 5 per cent a year for 10 years compounds to about 1,628.89; learners say why early habits matter.

On the slide: L7 Super expert · Design a wellbeing programme

Notes: Design and critique an evidence-based wellbeing or ethics programme with safeguarding and evaluation. Notes: survey 120 pupils before and after; 78 positive (65 per cent) rising to 96 (80 per cent) is a 15-point rise. Learners state limits, such as no comparison group, and how consent is protected.