AC9S8U01
Year 8
Science
AC9S8U01 | Year 8 Science: Biological sciences
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor recognise cells as the basic units of living things, compare plant and animal cells, and describe the functions of specialised cell structures and organelles
Strand
Science understanding
Substrand
Biological sciences
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 Science. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration exploring an augmented or virtual reality tour of a plant or animal to ‘zoom in’ and understand the scale of cells
- • Elaboration identifying the structure and function of organelles in cells including the nucleus, cell membrane, cell wall, cytoplasm, chloroplasts and vacuoles
- • Elaboration examining a variety of cells, including single-celled organisms, using a light microscope, a digital microscope, simulations and photomicrographs
- • Elaboration comparing the similarities and differences of plant cells and animal cells visible with a light microscope and represented in a digital or physical model
- • Elaboration designing a physical or digital model of a cell and explaining how the representation models the cell
- • Elaboration considering how the invention of the microscope has contributed to understanding of cell structure
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