Science / Year 7 / Science as a Human Endeavour / Nature and development of science

Curriculum content descriptions

Science knowledge can develop through collaboration across the disciplines of science and the contributions of people from a range of cultures (ACSHE223)

Elaborations
  • considering how water use and management relies on knowledge from different areas of science, and involves the application of technology
  • identifying the contributions of Australian scientists to the study of human impact on environments and to local environmental management projects
  • investigating how land management practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can help inform sustainable management of the environment
  • studying transnational collaborative research in the Antarctic
  • recognising that traditional and Western scientific knowledge can be used in combination to care for Country/Place
General capabilities
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Scientific inquiry,  Interdisciplinary research

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