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Curriculum content descriptions

Collaboratively and individually plan and conduct a range of investigation types, including fieldwork and experiments, ensuring safety and ethical guidelines are followed (ACSIS140)

Elaborations
  • working collaboratively to decide how to best approach an investigation
  • identifying any ethical considerations that may apply to the investigation
  • taking into consideration all aspects of fair testing, available equipment and safe investigation when planning investigations
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
ScOT terms

Experiments,  Data collection,  Instrumentation (Technology),  Ethics,  Safety

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