AC9S7H02 Year 7 Science

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration investigating classification systems used by First Nations Australians and how they differ in context and use from those used by contemporary science
• • Elaboration investigating how First Nations Australians have developed sustainable harvesting practices and cultural protocols based on deep ecological understandings
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration exploring the work of Wang Zhenyi, an acclaimed female scholar of 18th-century China, including her experiments in studying lunar eclipses
• • Elaboration 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