AC9S8H02 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.

investigate how cultural perspectives and world views influence the development of scientific knowledge

Elaborations

• 1 investigating how world views about the role of women lead to women scientists being placed in subordinate roles and ‘written out’ of history, a phenomenon known as the Matilda effect
• 2 researching how cultural building techniques such as houses built of bamboo led to the development of structures and materials better able to withstand the effects of earthquakes
• 3 investigating how collaboration between Swami Vivekananda and Nikola Tesla, who held different world views, led to an exploration of the relationship between mass and energy
• 4 analysing how world views relating to fairness in sport have led to the development of rapid chemical tests to identify performance-enhancing drugs
• 5 investigating how First Nations Australians develop material culture through holistic world views that employ multidisciplinary knowledges and skills

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