AC9S7H01 Year 7 Science

Content descriptor explain how new evidence or different perspectives can lead to changes in scientific knowledge

Elaborations

• • Elaboration exploring how scientists are re-examining the relationships between organisms to refine the classification of species as they discover new information or interpret evidence in new ways
• • Elaboration investigating how the land management practices of First Nations Australians inform contemporary management of the environment to protect biodiversity
• • Elaboration investigating how First Nations Australians’ traditional ecological and zoological knowledges inform sustainable harvesting practices of certain species, such as dugongs and turtles
• • Elaboration researching developments in the understanding of astronomy, such as the predictions of eclipses and the calculation of the length of the solar year by Abu Abdallah Mohammad ibn Jabir ibn Sinan al-Raqqi al-Harrani al-Sabi al-Battani in the 10th century
• • Elaboration investigating how aeronautical engineers’ understanding of the nature of the forces acting in flight have led to changes in the design of aircraft