AC9S8I05 Year 8 Science

Content descriptor analyse data and information to describe patterns, trends and relationships and identify anomalies

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying correlational relationships in data such as: ‘Dropping a mass from a greater height produces a larger indentation’ and analysing this relationship for causality
• • Elaboration describing measures of central tendency such as mean, mode and median and identifying outliers for quantitative data
• • Elaboration using spreadsheets to analyse second-hand data such as daily power output of solar panels and examining anomalies such as periods of reduced output
• • Elaboration analysing changes in battery energy output following recharging over many cycles and relating to available chemical potential energy
• • Elaboration comparing temperature differences obtained by reacting different proportions of the same chemicals to determine if there is a relationship