AC9S5I05 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.

compare methods and findings with those of others, recognise possible sources of error, pose questions for further investigation and select evidence to draw reasoned conclusions

Elaborations

• 1 comparing methods and findings with those of others to determine if the investigation was a fair test
• 2 recognising errors that could have occurred during investigations including changing too many variables, incorrect or misreading of measurements, or changes in environmental factors
• 3 comparing, in small groups, proposed reasons for findings and explaining their reasoning and posing further questions
• 4 discussing the difference between data and evidence and examining how evidence is selected
• 5 reflecting on inferences made from observations and analysis of the data to draw a reasoned conclusion

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