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Science / Year 9 / Science Inquiry Skills / Planning and conducting
Curriculum content descriptions
Plan, select and use appropriate investigation types, including field work and laboratory experimentation, to collect reliable data; assess risk and address ethical issues associated with these methods (ACSIS165)
Elaborations
- explaining the choice of variables to be controlled, changed and measured in an investigation
- identifying the potential hazards of chemicals or biological materials used in experimental investigations
- ensuring that any investigation involving or impacting on animals is justified, humane and considerate of each animal's needs
- using modelling and simulations, including using digital technology to investigate situations and events
- combining research using primary and secondary sources with students' own experimental investigation
- considering how investigation methods and equipment may influence the reliablity of collected data
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Experiments, Data collection, Ethics, Safety