AC9S10H01 Year 10 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 Science provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

explain how scientific knowledge is validated and refined, including the role of publication and peer review

Elaborations

• 1 examining how the work of Rosalind Franklin was critical to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA and her publications validated the findings of James Watson and Francis Crick
• 2 exploring the role of large data sets and statistical analysis in validating scientific findings, such as Gregor Mendel’s experiments with pea plants
• 3 examining why there are different climate change models used by scientists when there is a climate change consensus among scientists
• 4 exploring how astronomer Vera Rubin’s discovery of the existence of dark matter was validated
• 5 examining how the discovery of gravity waves validated Einstein’s theory of general relativity and why this discovery did not occur until 100 years after the theory was proposed
• 6 investigating how the development of the periodic table has been disputed and refined as science has progressed and new elements have been discovered

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