Science / Levels 9 and 10 / Science Understanding / Science as a human endeavour
Content description
Scientific understanding, including models and theories, are contestable and are refined over time through a process of review by the scientific community
Elaborations
considering how ideas about disease transmission have changed from medieval time to the present as knowledge has developed
investigating the historical development of models of the structure of the atom
investigating how the theory of plate tectonics developed, based on evidence from seafloor spreading and occurrence of earthquakes and volcanic activity
recognising the contribution of Australian scientists, for example, Brian Schmidt and Penny Sackett, in the exploration and study of the Universe
Code
VCSSU114
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