AC9S10I04 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.

select and construct appropriate representations, including tables, graphs, descriptive statistics, models and mathematical relationships, to organise and process data and information

Elaborations

• 1 using spreadsheet software to carry out mathematical analyses of data
• 2 describing sample properties such as mean, median, range and large gaps visible on a graph to make generalisations, acknowledging uncertainties and the effects of outliers
• 3 considering how data or information can be organised and represented to effectively communicate support for conclusions, including through visual or interactive models
• 4 considering how the scales used for representing data affect interpretation of the data
• 5 evaluating the merits and limitations of time-lapse visual representations of changes in polar ice coverage with a mathematical representation
• 6 comparing merits and limitations of patterns as represented by the periodic table with graphical representations of patterns such as melting point or boiling point, and with consideration of anomalies

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