AC9S7I08 Year 7 Science

Content descriptor write and create texts to communicate ideas, findings and arguments for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of appropriate language and text features, using digital tools as appropriate

Elaborations

• • Elaboration examining a range of scientific texts, inferring the purpose of the text and target audience, and identifying specific language and text features that support that inference
• • Elaboration reporting on a scientific investigation, incorporating diagrams, graphical representations and data as appropriate, and including examination of the accuracy and reproducibility of the data
• • Elaboration developing a prototype for a dichotomous key app to enable community members to classify plants or animals in a local park or reserve
• • Elaboration writing a letter to the editor to express a view about an environmental issue affecting local ecosystems
• • Elaboration creating an informative text for a younger audience to show how the tilt of Earth’s axis, rotation of Earth on that axis, and the revolution of Earth around the sun cause the seasons
• • Elaboration creating an animation that explains particle theory to a peer audience