AC9S5H01 Year 5 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

examine why advances in science are often the result of collaboration or build on the work of others

Elaborations

• 1 researching how the recent discovery of a biofluorescent flying squirrel led to discoveries of more fluorescent mammals, such as wombats, bilbies, echidna and bandicoots as scientists collaborated with other scientists across fields of science and internationally
• 2 researching why European naturalists and scientists first thought the platypus was a faked animal, and how scientists such as those in the Platypus Conservation Initiative are collaborating in ongoing research to understand the features and behaviours of platypuses
• 3 investigating how contemporary soil erosion management practices adapt and build on First Nations Australians’ fire management and agricultural practices
• 4 exploring why developing new erosion mitigation techniques such as contour banks and strip cropping requires geologists, hydrologists and farmers to collaborate
• 5 exploring how understanding of light and optics has developed by comparing the ideas of Plato, Euclid, Ptolemy, Ibn al-Haytham and Roger Bacon

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