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Science / Year 5 / Science Inquiry Skills / Planning and conducting

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Curriculum content descriptions

Decide variables to be changed and measured in fair tests, and observe measure and record data with accuracy using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS087)

Elaborations

discussing in groups how investigations can be made as fair as possible
using tools to accurately measure objects and events in investigation and exploring which tools provide the most accurate measurements
using familiar units such as grams, seconds and meters and developing the use of standard multipliers such as kilometres and millimetres
recording data in tables and diagrams or electronically as digital images and spreadsheets

General capabilities

Literacy
Numeracy
Critical and creative thinking
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability

ScOT terms

Data collection, Instrumentation (Technology), Independence (Experiments), Scientific control

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