AC9S8I08 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.

write and create texts to communicate ideas, findings and arguments for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of appropriate language and text features, using digital tools as appropriate

Elaborations

• 1 exploring the role of active and passive voice in scientific writing and analysing contemporary journal articles to identify the use of language features such as voice or tense
• 2 writing a report on a scientific investigation using appropriate scientific conventions and representations, including a discussion of how assumptions and possible sources of error may have affected the results
• 3 modifying the method for an investigation and explaining where and why the original was changed with reference to any assumptions and sources of error
• 4 constructing a persuasive text on the use of artificial organs including scientific explanations and principles to influence a specified audience
• 5 filming a documentary on the dynamic nature of the geosphere and selecting appropriate language, models or analogies to engage a specific audience
• 6 creating a digital infographic to compare and contrast different forms of energy, highlighting examples of energy transfer and transformations within each
• 7 acknowledging and exploring First Nations Australians’ ways of communicating their understanding of the internal systems of organisms

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