AC9S8H04 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.

explore the role of science communication in informing individual viewpoints and community policies and regulations

Elaborations

• 1 investigating campaigns designed to increase rates of organ donation
• 2 exploring how seismic data is collected and shared between governments across the Asia-Pacific region and how governments use this data including for tsunami alerts
• 3 investigating how promotion of biodegradable materials and the importance of using them has informed individual viewpoints
• 4 researching how science organisations and high-profile science communicators such as Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith or Dr Karl Kruszelnicki influence people’s attitudes to science

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