AC9S5H01 Year 5 Science

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration investigating how contemporary soil erosion management practices adapt and build on First Nations Australians’ fire management and agricultural practices
• • Elaboration exploring why developing new erosion mitigation techniques such as contour banks and strip cropping requires geologists, hydrologists and farmers to collaborate
• • Elaboration exploring how understanding of light and optics has developed by comparing the ideas of Plato, Euclid, Ptolemy, Ibn al-Haytham and Roger Bacon