AC9S8H01 Year 8 Science

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying how technological developments, such as those related to microscopes and medical imaging, have led to improved understanding of cells and organs
• • Elaboration considering how advances in technologies have enabled the repair and replacement of organs using synthetic materials
• • Elaboration analysing how sustainability priorities such as efficiency and limiting environmental impact have led to innovative practices in mining and mine site regeneration
• • Elaboration examining the evidence that led to the acceptance of the theory of plate tectonics over the idea of continental drift
• • Elaboration investigating how advances in deep Earth imaging techniques have enabled identification of mineral, energy and water resources beneath surface sedimentary rock
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration researching why Dmitri Mendeleev developed a different representation of the periodic table