AC9S8I01 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.

develop investigable questions, reasoned predictions and hypotheses to explore scientific models, identify patterns and test relationships

Elaborations

• 1 discussing what is meant by a causal relationship and examining how causation is different from correlation
• 2 developing investigable questions to test causal relationships, such as: ‘How does the concentration of a salt solution affect plant cells? How does the amount of sunlight affect the amount of electricity produced by a solar cell?’
• 3 developing investigable questions to explore scientific models, such as: ‘How do the shapes of the continents support the theory of plate tectonics?’
• 4 predicting what will happen when conditions change in a given scenario or phenomenon, such as: ‘When materials of less resistance are used to transfer electricity there will be less heat energy produced’
• 5 formulating hypotheses such as: ‘An earthquake of greater magnitude will cause more damage because there is more energy transferred’

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