AC9S8I08 Year 8 Science

Content descriptor 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

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration modifying the method for an investigation and explaining where and why the original was changed with reference to any assumptions and sources of error
• • Elaboration constructing a persuasive text on the use of artificial organs including scientific explanations and principles to influence a specified audience
• • Elaboration filming a documentary on the dynamic nature of the geosphere and selecting appropriate language, models or analogies to engage a specific audience
• • Elaboration creating a digital infographic to compare and contrast different forms of energy, highlighting examples of energy transfer and transformations within each
• • Elaboration acknowledging and exploring First Nations Australians’ ways of communicating their understanding of the internal systems of organisms