AC9S8H01 Year 8 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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.

explain how new evidence or different perspectives can lead to changes in scientific knowledge

Elaborations

• 1 identifying how technological developments, such as those related to microscopes and medical imaging, have led to improved understanding of cells and organs
• 2 considering how advances in technologies have enabled the repair and replacement of organs using synthetic materials
• 3 analysing how sustainability priorities such as efficiency and limiting environmental impact have led to innovative practices in mining and mine site regeneration
• 4 examining the evidence that led to the acceptance of the theory of plate tectonics over the idea of continental drift
• 5 investigating how advances in deep Earth imaging techniques have enabled identification of mineral, energy and water resources beneath surface sedimentary rock
• 6 discussing the story of Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of gravity or the questions that Albert Einstein asked which led him to developing a new theory
• 7 researching why Dmitri Mendeleev developed a different representation of the periodic table

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