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Science / Year 8 / Science Inquiry Skills / Communicating

Curriculum content descriptions

Communicate ideas, findings and evidence based solutions to problems using scientific language, and representations, using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS148)

Elaborations
  • using digital technologies to construct a range of text types to present science ideas
  • selecting and using appropriate language and representations to communcate science ideas within a specified text type and for a specified audience
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Creating texts,  Data representation,  Reasoning,  Explanations (Scientific inquiry)

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