AC9S6H01 Year 6 Science

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration investigating how contemporary restorative ecology adapts and builds on the traditional ecological knowledges of First Nations Australians
• • Elaboration exploring how international scientific collaboration can answer complex questions about the abiotic factors that affect the growth and survival of living things in Antarctica
• • Elaboration examining why ecologists collaborate with engineers and computer scientists to develop remote sensing techniques, identify patterns in habitat change and make predictions
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration investigating how astronauts and scientists from many different countries have collaborated in the International Space Station program
• • Elaboration investigating why scientists changed the phosphate levels in detergents to prevent algal blooms