AC9S3H01 – Year 3 Science: Nature and development of science

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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.

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 exploring how farmers use soil tests to monitor and manage the health of farms
• 3 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
• 4 exploring age-appropriate science reports and journal articles and identifying where in the text the author has included data, findings or explanations
• 5 viewing a documentary or webinar and observing how scientists and researchers share their data and explanations

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