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AC9S9I04 Year 9 Science

AC9S9I04 | Year 9 Science: Processing, modelling and analysing

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor select and construct appropriate representations, including tables, graphs, descriptive statistics, models and mathematical relationships, to organise and process data and information
Strand
Science inquiry
Substrand
Processing, modelling and analysing

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 9 Science. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration using spreadsheet software to present data in tabular and graphical forms
  • • Elaboration identifying which sample properties, such as mean, median and range, are the most appropriate to use to make generalisations
  • • Elaboration applying algorithms to measure carbon storage of different vegetation types
  • • Elaboration applying ratios to accurately represent usable and waste energy in transfer and transformation diagrams such as Sankey diagrams
  • • Elaboration 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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