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Curriculum content descriptions

construct and use appropriate representations, including tables, graphs and visual or physical models, to organise and process data and information and describe patterns, trends and relationships (AC9S5I04)

Elaborations
  • using annotated digital photography or field sketches to describe structural features of plants or animals
  • constructing a column graph to illustrate the relationship between predation and an animal feature such as colour as indicated by a simulation, and using values to represent the outcomes of repeated simulations
  • modelling landscapes using materials such as sand, gravel, soil and rocks to show effects of erosion by water
  • constructing labelled ray diagrams to represent observations and compare how light interacts with different objects
  • using maps to identify patterns in erosion site locations or aerial photographs to show effects of erosion over time
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Modelling,  Data representation,  Graphs (Data representation),  Data analysis,  Patterns

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