Science / Year 7 / Science Inquiry Skills / Processing and analysing data and information

Curriculum content descriptions

Summarise data, from students’ own investigations and secondary sources, and use scientific understanding to identify relationships and draw conclusions based on evidence (ACSIS130)

Elaborations
  • using diagrammatic representations to convey abstract ideas and to simplify complex situations
  • comparing and contrasting data from a number of sources in order to create a summary of collected data
  • identifying data which provides evidence to support or negate the hypothesis under investigation
  • referring to relevant evidence when presenting conclusions drawn from an investigation
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Data representation,  Data analysis,  Reasoning,  Judgement

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