AC9S6H01 Year 6 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 6 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 investigating how contemporary restorative ecology adapts and builds on the traditional ecological knowledges of First Nations Australians
• 2 exploring how international scientific collaboration can answer complex questions about the abiotic factors that affect the growth and survival of living things in Antarctica
• 3 examining why ecologists collaborate with engineers and computer scientists to develop remote sensing techniques, identify patterns in habitat change and make predictions
• 4 constructing a timeline to show how contributions and collaboration of scientists, mathematicians and astronomers from many countries have advanced our ideas about space and the solar system through development of models, gathering of evidence and, more recently, space exploration
• 5 investigating how astronauts and scientists from many different countries have collaborated in the International Space Station program
• 6 investigating why scientists changed the phosphate levels in detergents to prevent algal blooms

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