AC9S9H01 Year 9 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

explain how scientific knowledge is validated and refined, including the role of publication and peer review

Elaborations

• 1

  investigating the process of publishing a paper in a scientific journal such as Science, which receives about 12,000 submissions per year, and considering how editors evaluate submitted papers

• 2 investigating how the publication of data and findings related to the reintroduction of First Nations Australians’ traditional fire regimes has informed more effective fire-reduction strategies and policies
• 3 exploring why the work of Professor Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren related to the cause of peptic ulcers was first rejected for publication then later validated
• 4 examining the scientific consensus supporting global warming
• 5 researching how JJ Thomson’s discovery of the electron, Robert Millikan’s oil drop experiment, and Ernest Rutherford’s gold foil experiment provide consistency of evidence for the particle model of electricity
• 6 examining how Marie and Pierre Curie’s discovery of new elements was validated

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