AC9S9I04 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.

select and construct appropriate representations, including tables, graphs, descriptive statistics, models and mathematical relationships, to organise and process data and information

Elaborations

• 1 using spreadsheet software to present data in tabular and graphical forms
• 2 identifying which sample properties, such as mean, median and range, are the most appropriate to use to make generalisations
• 3 applying algorithms to measure carbon storage of different vegetation types
• 4 applying ratios to accurately represent usable and waste energy in transfer and transformation diagrams such as Sankey diagrams
• 5 comparing the information provided by molecular models and word and balanced symbolic chemical equations when examining the law of conservation of mass

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