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• VCSSU073

  Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people’s lives

  Elaborations

  • exploring objects and devices that include parts that involve the reflection, absorption or refraction of light, for example, mirrors, sunglasses and prisms
  • considering how electricity and electrical appliances have changed the way some people live
  • considering how decisions are made to grow particular plants and crops depending on environmental conditions
  • considering how guidelines help to ensure the safe use of electrical devices
  • comparing the benefits of using solid, liquid or gaseous fuels to heat a home
  • designing shelters for living things that are exposed to changed or harsh environments, for example, as a result of bushfire or displacement

  VCSSU073 | Science | Levels 5 and 6 | Science Understanding | Science as a human endeavour

• VCSIS088

  Communicate ideas and processes using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena and to identify simple cause-and-effect relationships

  Elaborations

  • discussing how models represent scientific ideas and constructing physical models to demonstrate an aspect of scientific understanding
  • using a variety of communication modes, for example, reports, explanations, arguments, debates and procedural accounts, to communicate science ideas
  • using labelled diagrams, including cross-sectional representations, to communicate ideas and processes

  VCSIS088 | Science | Levels 5 and 6 | Science Inquiry Skills | Communicating

• VCSIS083

  With guidance, plan appropriate investigation types to answer questions or solve problems and use equipment, technologies and materials safely, identifying potential risks

  Elaborations

  • following a given procedure to design an experimental or field investigation
  • experiencing a range of ways of investigating questions, including experimental testing, creating models, internet research, field observations, simulations and trial and error methods
  • discussing the advantages and disadvantages of certain types of investigation for answering certain types of questions
  • discussing possible hazards involved in conducting investigations, and how these risks can be reduced

  VCSIS083 | Science | Levels 5 and 6 | Science Inquiry Skills | Planning and conducting

• VCSIS085

  Construct and use a range of representations, including tables and graphs, to record, represent and describe observations, patterns or relationships in data

  Elaborations

  • using familiar units such as grams, seconds and metres and developing the use of standard multipliers such as kilometres and millimetres
  • using digital technologies to record data as digital images or in spreadsheets and to present data in tables and simple graphs
  • using digital technologies to construct representations, including dynamic representations

  VCSIS085 | Science | Levels 5 and 6 | Science Inquiry Skills | Recording and processing

• VCSIS082

  With guidance, pose questions to clarify practical problems or inform a scientific investigation, and predict what the findings of an investigation might be based on previous experiences or general rules

  Elaborations

  • exploring a range of questions that can be asked about a problem or phenomena and, with guidance, identifying those questions that could be investigated by students
  • refining questions to enable scientific investigation
  • applying experience from previous investigations to predict the outcomes of investigations in new contexts

  VCSIS082 | Science | Levels 5 and 6 | Science Inquiry Skills | Questioning and predicting

• VCSIS084

  Decide which variables should be changed, measured and controlled in fair tests and accurately observe, measure and record data

  Elaborations

  • discussing in groups how investigations can be made as fair as possible
  • using tools and digital technologies to accurately measure objects and events in investigation and exploring which tools provide the most accurate measurements
  • using digital technologies to make accurate measurements and record data

  VCSIS084 | Science | Levels 5 and 6 | Science Inquiry Skills | Planning and conducting

• VCSIS086

  Compare data with predictions and use as evidence in developing explanations

  Elaborations

  • discussing the difference between data and evidence
  • referring to evidence when explaining the outcomes of an investigation
  • sharing ideas as to whether observations match predictions, and discussing possible reasons for predictions being incorrect

  VCSIS086 | Science | Levels 5 and 6 | Science Inquiry Skills | Analysing and evaluating