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Science / Year 7 / Science Inquiry Skills / Processing and analysing data and information

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Curriculum content descriptions

Construct and use a range of representations, including graphs, keys and models to represent and analyse patterns or relationships in data using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS129)

Elaborations
  • understanding different types of graphical and physical representation and considering their advantages and disadvantages
  • using spreadsheets to aid the presentation and simple analysis of data
  • describing the trends shown in collected data
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Data representation,  Data analysis,  Data processing

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