AC9S10H01 Year 10 Science

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration exploring the role of large data sets and statistical analysis in validating scientific findings, such as Gregor Mendel’s experiments with pea plants
• • Elaboration examining why there are different climate change models used by scientists when there is a climate change consensus among scientists
• • Elaboration exploring how astronomer Vera Rubin’s discovery of the existence of dark matter was validated
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration investigating how the development of the periodic table has been disputed and refined as science has progressed and new elements have been discovered