Junior Secondary Curriculum
FOOD STUDIES Students expand on cooking skills and knowledge of food while applying it in a working kitchen. Students discover the benefits of a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Students focus on cuisines from around the worlds and experience different cooking styles and ingredients from those cultures. Students discuss the ethics of sustainable food production regarding animal welfare. Students undertake real life ‘ mystery box ’ challenges where they develop skills in cooking with everyday ingredients without a recipe. They participate in taste testing tasks to expand knowledge of their senses. Students are introduced to complex techniques and cooking processes in producing food from scratch. They discover the different scenarios that can impact what they eat whilst looking deeply into the causes of food poisoning. Students have many opportunities to cook their chosen foods during practical sessions. They also produce and evaluate their own dishes using sensory analysis technique to both identify and critically analyse foods. APPLIED COMPUTING Students explore the world of information and software technology. They build on their knowledge of programming, information systems and current technologies such as Artificial intelligence, social media and online marketplaces. Students develop programming skills through a number of individual and group tasks over a range of different projects (with a focus on exploring a range of different programming languages). Throughout these projects students' develop knowledge and understanding, confidence and creativity in analysing, designing and evaluating information and software technology solutions. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the biggest growth areas in technology today. Students explore emerging trends and current research in AI to examine how it impacts our daily lives. Students learn the skills to be able to create, program and manipulate robotic and intelligent devices to help improve the world around them by harvesting information about machine learning, image, voice and video recognition, natural language processing and more. Students engage in research upon the current technology that is used to serve society and respond to the potential of AI in the future. Students use this knowledge to plan their own AI project to solve a current personal, world or societal problem.
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The Lakes South Morang College Curriculum Handbook
Secondary Campus 2025
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