AC9S9I07 Year 9 Science

AC9S9I07 – Year 9 Science: Evaluating

Strand

Science inquiry

Substrand

Evaluating

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.

Content Descriptor

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

• examining secondary data to determine the credibility of the source and the validity and reproducibility of the data
• identifying multiple sources of evidence that are consistent with a claim such as the effectiveness of a vaccine
• interrogating the evidence and reasoning used to justify claims regarding the age of ancient artefacts
• researching the methods used by scientists in studies reported in the media to evaluate the validity of the headlines
• 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
• 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’
• acknowledging and constructing an argument for the contributions to medicine of First Nations Australians’ knowledges of physiological pathways and contemporary medicinal delivery systems

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASSCIY9

Year 9 Science Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 9 students explain how body systems provide a coordinated response to stimuli. They describe how the processes of sexual and asexual reproduction enable survival of the species. They explain how interactions within and between Earth’s spheres affect the carbon cycle. They analyse energy conservation in simple systems and apply wave and particle models to describe energy transfer. They explain observable chemical processes in terms of changes in atomic structure, atomic rearrangement and mass. Students explain the role of publication and peer review in the development of scientific knowledge and explain the relationship between science, technologies and engineering. They analyse the different ways in which science and society are interconnected. Students plan and conduct safe, reproducible investigations to test or identify relationships and models. They describe how they have addressed any ethical and intercultural considerations when generating or using primary and secondary data. They select and use equipment to generate and record replicable data with precision. They select and construct appropriate representations to organise, process and summarise data and information. They analyse and connect data and information to identify and explain patterns, trends, relationships and anomalies. They analyse the impact of assumptions and sources of error in methods and evaluate the validity of conclusions and claims. They construct logical arguments based on evidence to support conclusions and evaluate claims. They select and use content, language and text features effectively to achieve their purpose when communicating their ideas, findings and arguments to specific audiences.