AC9S4H01 – Year 4 Science: Nature and development of science

This Content Descriptor from Year 4 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 examining age-appropriate scientific journal articles, identifying common text features and exploring why the scientific community might have conventions for sharing information about data and explanations
• 2 viewing or listening to documentaries or news reports that feature researchers and identifying how they talk about their area of research, particularly references to observations, data and evidence
• 3 investigating how ecologists use food chain data to develop explanations for population decline of native species such as the Richmond birdwing butterfly, and to develop strategies to increase their population
• 4 explore how hydrologists use rainfall and water use data to explain the amount of water flowing in rivers and why this changes over time
• 5 investigating how First Nations Australians test predictions and gather data in the development of technologies and processes

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