AC9S9I07 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.

construct arguments based on analysis of a variety of evidence to support conclusions or evaluate claims, and consider any ethical issues and cultural protocols associated with accessing, using or citing secondary data or information

Elaborations

• 1 examining secondary data to determine the credibility of the source and the validity and reproducibility of the data
• 2 identifying multiple sources of evidence that are consistent with a claim such as the effectiveness of a vaccine
• 3 interrogating the evidence and reasoning used to justify claims regarding the age of ancient artefacts
• 4 researching the methods used by scientists in studies reported in the media to evaluate the validity of the headlines
• 5 examining secondary data to ensure it does not contain personal information which could potentially harm individuals, is correctly cited and is relevant to the investigation question or claim
• 6 acknowledging and identifying the relationship between First Peoples’ knowledges and contemporary science and the co-contributions in arriving at shared understandings when working ‘both ways’
• 7 acknowledging and constructing an argument for the contributions to medicine of First Nations Australians’ knowledges of physiological pathways and contemporary medicinal delivery systems

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