AC9S6I05 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.

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 working collaboratively to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their own and others’ investigations including where testing was not fair and practices could be improved
• 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 and contrasting data collected by different individuals or groups to discuss similarities and differences in their findings and posing questions about differences for further investigation
• 4 comparing and contrasting evidence selected by different individuals or groups from similar data
• 5 evaluating the inferences made from observations and analysis of the data to draw a reasoned conclusion

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