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AC9S7I04 Year 7 Science

AC9S7I04 | Year 7 Science: Processing, modelling and analysing

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor select and construct appropriate representations, including tables, graphs, models and mathematical relationships, to organise and process data and information
Strand
Science inquiry
Substrand
Processing, modelling and analysing

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 7 Science. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration using spreadsheets to aid the presentation and analysis of data
  • • Elaboration constructing food webs to represent feeding relationships and flows of energy and matter in an ecosystem
  • • Elaboration constructing representations of dichotomous keys, such as a creating a visual key or an interactive presentation, or coding a simple program
  • • Elaboration analysing data, including secondary data, to determine mathematical relationships, such as tidal variations over the course of a lunar cycle
  • • Elaboration distinguishing between discrete and continuous data and selecting appropriate data representations
  • • Elaboration acknowledging, analysing and interpreting data and information from First Nations Australians’ astronomical observations

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