AC9S9H02 Year 9 Science

Content descriptor investigate how advances in technologies enable advances in science, and how science has contributed to developments in technologies and engineering

Elaborations

• • Elaboration analysing how the development of imaging technologies has improved our understanding of the functions and interactions of body systems
• • Elaboration considering the impact of technological advances developed in Australia such as the cochlear implant pioneered by Professor Graeme Clark, the Monash Vison Group’s work on a bionic eye, Professor Fiona Woods’s development of spray-on skin and Doctor John O’Sullivan and CSIRO’s invention of wi-fi
• • Elaboration researching how technological advances in monitoring greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental factors have contributed to the reinstatement of traditional fire management practices as a strategy to reduce atmospheric pollution
• • Elaboration examining how properties of electromagnetic radiation relate to its uses, such as radar, medicine, mobile phone communications, remote sensing and microwave cooking
• • Elaboration exploring how scientists and engineers make machines more energy efficient
• • Elaboration exploring how understanding of the nature of matter and energy has changed over time, and how modern technology has enabled exploration of energy conversion processes at all scales, from black holes to atoms to sub-atomic particles
• • Elaboration examining how advances in understanding of radioactivity and radioisotopes have led to new applications and technologies