Science / Year 8 / Science Inquiry Skills / Processing and analysing data and information

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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 (ACSIS145)

Elaborations
  • constructing tables, graphs, keys and models to represent relationships and trends in collected data
  • drawing conclusions based on a range of evidence including primary and secondary sources
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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