Nature of Science

Understanding about Science

1. Students should be able to appreciate how scientists work and how scientific ideas are modified over time.

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Investigating in Science

2. Students should be able to recognize questions that are appropriate for scientific investigation, pose testable hypotheses, and evaluate and compare strategies for investigating hypotheses.
3. Students should be able to design, plan and conduct investigations; explain how reliability, accuracy, precision, fairness, safety, ethics, and selection of suitable equipment have been considered.
4. Students should be able to produce and select data (qualitatively/quantitatively), critically analyse data to identify patterns and relationships, identify anomalous observations, draw and justify conclusions.
5. Students should be able to review and reflect on the skills and thinking used in carrying out investigations, and apply their learning and skills to solving problems in unfamiliar contexts.

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Communicating in Science

6. Students should be able to conduct research relevant to a scientific issue, evaluate different sources of information including secondary data, understanding that a source may lack detail or show bias.
7. Students should be able to organize and communicate their research and investigative findings in a variety of ways fit for purpose and audience, using relevant scientific terminology and representations.
8. Students should be able to evaluate media-based arguments concerning science and technology.

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Science in Society

9. Students should be able to research and present information on the contribution that scientists make to scientific discovery and invention, and its impact on society.
10. Students should be able to appreciate the role of science in society; and its personal, social and global importance; and how society influences scientific research.

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