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Science / Year 7 / Science as a Human Endeavour / Nature and development of science
Curriculum content descriptions
Scientific knowledge has changed peoples’ understanding of the world and is refined as new evidence becomes available (ACSHE119)
Elaborations
- investigating how advances in telescopes and space probes have provided new evidence about space
- researching different ideas used in the development of models of the solar system developed by scientists such as Copernicus, Khayyám and Galileo
- researching developments in the understanding of astronomy, such as the predictions of eclipses and the calculation of the length of the solar year by Al‑Battani in the tenth century
ScOT terms
Evidence, Paradigms, Observations (Data)