AC9S8I05 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.

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

Elaborations

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

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