AC9S7I06 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.

analyse methods, conclusions and claims for assumptions, possible sources of error, conflicting evidence and unanswered questions

Elaborations

• 1 identifying and considering indicators of the quality of the data when analysing results to identify unanswered questions
• 2 evaluating the method used in an investigation, identifying assumptions made about variables that should be controlled, suggesting ways it could be improved and giving reasons for the suggested changes
• 3 analysing conclusions and claims to identify facts or premises that are taken for granted to be true, and considering their relevance to conclusions
• 4 considering the spread of repeated measurements and observations
• 5 identifying possible sources of error in the method used and describing how the method could be improved to remove these sources of error
• 6 identifying the evidence being cited to support a claim and evaluating conflicting evidence

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