AC9S9H01 Year 9 Science

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration examining the scientific consensus supporting global warming
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration examining how Marie and Pierre Curie’s discovery of new elements was validated