AC9S7H02 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.

investigate how cultural perspectives and world views influence the development of scientific knowledge

Elaborations

• 1 investigating classification systems used by First Nations Australians and how they differ in context and use from those used by contemporary science
• 2 investigating how First Nations Australians have developed sustainable harvesting practices and cultural protocols based on deep ecological understandings
• 3 exploring how the personal beliefs of a scientist may influence the questions they choose to pursue and how they investigate those questions, such as Richard Levins, whose political views led him to focus on population ecology, or Joseph Rotblat, a physicist who refused to work on science that might lead to development of an atomic bomb
• 4 considering why it is important to recognise that different people in society have different perspectives on the introduction of biological controls to eradicate an invasive species
• 5 exploring the work of Wang Zhenyi, an acclaimed female scholar of 18th-century China, including her experiments in studying lunar eclipses
• 6 exploring how David Unaipon, a Ngarrindjeri man from Coorong region of South Australia, used his cultural knowledge and understanding of the aerodynamic properties of boomerangs to conceptualise a ‘vertical lift flying machine’ in 1914

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