AC9S6I05
Year 6
Science
AC9S6I05 | Year 6 Science: Evaluating
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor 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
Strand
Science inquiry
Substrand
Evaluating
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 6 Science. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration recognising errors that could have occurred during investigations, including changing too many variables, incorrect or misreading of measurements, or changes in environmental factors
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration comparing and contrasting evidence selected by different individuals or groups from similar data
- • Elaboration evaluating the inferences made from observations and analysis of the data to draw a reasoned conclusion
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