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Science / Year 6 / 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 (ACSIS104)
Elaborations
- using familiar units such as grams, seconds and metres and developing the use of standard multipliers such as kilometres and millimetres
- using the idea of an independent variable (note: this terminology does not need to be used at this stage) as something that is being investigated by changing it and measuring the effect of this change
- using digital technologies to make accurate measurements and to record data
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Data collection, Instrumentation (Technology), Independence (Experiments), Scientific control