AC9S3H01 Year 3 Science

Content descriptor examine how people use data to develop scientific explanations

Elaborations

• • Elaboration investigating the stories of people who used multiple observations to develop scientific explanations, such as 17th-century entomologist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, who was the first to record the nature of metamorphosis
• • Elaboration exploring how farmers use soil tests to monitor and manage the health of farms
• • Elaboration investigate how 18th-century physicists such as Jean Ingenhousz and Sir Benjamin Thompson collected data on conduction of heat to determine the best conductors or insulators
• • Elaboration exploring age-appropriate science reports and journal articles and identifying where in the text the author has included data, findings or explanations
• • Elaboration viewing a documentary or webinar and observing how scientists and researchers share their data and explanations