AC9S7H01 Year 7 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 investigating how the land management practices of First Nations Australians inform contemporary management of the environment to protect biodiversity
• 3 investigating how First Nations Australians’ traditional ecological and zoological knowledges inform sustainable harvesting practices of certain species, such as dugongs and turtles
• 4 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
• 5 investigating how aeronautical engineers’ understanding of the nature of the forces acting in flight have led to changes in the design of aircraft

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