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Science / Year 5 / Science as a human endeavour / Nature and development of science
Curriculum content descriptions
examine why advances in science are often the result of collaboration or build on the work of others (AC9S5H01)
Elaborations
- researching how the recent discovery of a biofluorescent flying squirrel led to discoveries of more fluorescent mammals, such as wombats, bilbies, echidna and bandicoots as scientists collaborated with other scientists across fields of science and internationally
- researching why European naturalists and scientists first thought the platypus was a faked animal, and how scientists such as those in the Platypus Conservation Initiative are collaborating in ongoing research to understand the features and behaviours of platypuses
- investigating how contemporary soil erosion management practices adapt and build on First Nations Australians’ fire management and agricultural practices
- exploring why developing new erosion mitigation techniques such as contour banks and strip cropping requires geologists, hydrologists and farmers to collaborate
- exploring how understanding of light and optics has developed by comparing the ideas of Plato, Euclid, Ptolemy, Ibn al-Haytham and Roger Bacon
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Interdisciplinary research, Cooperation, Scientific inquiry