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Science / Year 5 / Science Inquiry Skills / Planning and conducting
Curriculum content descriptions
Decide variables to be changed and measured in fair tests, and observe measure and record data with accuracy using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS087)
Elaborations
- discussing in groups how investigations can be made as fair as possible
- using tools to accurately measure objects and events in investigation and exploring which tools provide the most accurate measurements
- using familiar units such as grams, seconds and meters and developing the use of standard multipliers such as kilometres and millimetres
- recording data in tables and diagrams or electronically as digital images and spreadsheets
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Data collection, Instrumentation (Technology), Independence (Experiments), Scientific control