AC9S8I03
Year 8
Science
AC9S8I03 | Year 8 Science: Planning and conducting
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor select and use equipment to generate and record data with precision, using digital tools as appropriate
Strand
Science inquiry
Substrand
Planning and conducting
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 Science. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration selecting and using equipment with required precision such as adjusting magnification to observe specific cell structures and recording this magnification and reading the bottom of the meniscus to determine the precise volume of liquid
- • Elaboration recording data with precision appropriate to the instrument such as rounding up or down with finer graduations or estimating an intermediate value with coarser graduations
- • Elaboration using digital tools such as digital microscopes, simulations and video-recording devices when appropriate to observe, measure and record qualitative and quantitative data
- • Elaboration using conventions related to dependent and independent variables with relevant units when constructing tables and spreadsheets
- • Elaboration using appropriate positive and negative signs for standard units, number of decimal points and exponential notation where relevant when recording data
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