AC9S10I01 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.

develop investigable questions, reasoned predictions and hypotheses to test relationships and develop explanatory models

Elaborations

• 1 discussing how a tested hypothesis may lead to further predictions and testing to determine if the prediction is supported
• 2 developing hypotheses about the role of human activity in changes to climate and investigating these using secondary data
• 3 observing a change in the frequency of extreme weather events and hypothesising causes from scientific models, such as: ‘If the El Niño weather pattern occurs more frequently then there will be more droughts due to decreased rainfall’
• 4 asking questions about the relationship between crash impact force and speed and developing a hypothesis which can then be tested
• 5 observing how changing the surface area, concentration and temperature affects the rate of a chemical reaction and developing reasoned predictions

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