AC9S7I01 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.

develop investigable questions, reasoned predictions and hypotheses to explore scientific models, identify patterns and test relationships

Elaborations

• 1 discussing the features of investigable and non-investigable questions, including consideration of school and web-based resources available, and examining their own and others’ questions
• 2 consulting with First Nations Australians to clarify questions based on their traditional ecological knowledges, such as predictions regarding the impact of invasive species
• 3 developing investigable questions to explore scientific models, such as: ‘How does particle theory explain the properties of substances?’
• 4 developing investigable questions to test relationships, such as: ‘How does the volume of a balloon change as it is heated and cooled? What happens to the height of the tide at different points of the lunar cycle?’
• 5 discussing the relationship between a reasoned prediction and a hypothesis, identifying essential elements of a hypothesis and using a provided scaffold to develop hypotheses
• 6 formulating hypotheses such as: ‘If the surface area of the parachute is decreased, the parachute will descend more quickly because there will be less air resistance’

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