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General Capabilities
General Capabilities
The General Capabilities are embedded into the curriculum. Students who are confident learners will be able to exhibit knowledge, skills and behaviours both inside and outside the classroom.
https://docs.acara.edu.au/resources/Science_-_GC_learning_area.pdf
Literacy
Literacy
Students will be able to:
Build up a list of scientific vocabulary
Interpret and follow scientific experiment instructions and data
Formulate and express scientific hypothesis
Interpret data and compare to the hypothesis
Create graphs, tables, diagrams, maps, animations, models, and visual media
Numeracy
Numeracy
Students will be able to:
Measure values with accuracy
Collate and represent scientific data in a diagram, graph or table
Analyse and draw meaning from statistical data
Find trends and utilise mathematical formulas to predict values
ICT Capability
ICT Capability
Students will be able to:
Research scientific concepts and record their knowledge utilising technology
Collect, analyse and represent data utilising technology
Create diagrams, tables, infographics and charts utilising ICT tools
Critical and Creative Thinking
Critical and Creative Thinking
Students will be able to:
Develop critical and creative thinking about scientific topics
Seeking new pathways or solutions to scientific queries
Posing questions, making predictions, speculation, solving problems through investigation, making evidence based decisions, analysing and evaluating evidence
Evaluating original sources and formulating conclusions
Critically reflecting on own pathways and processes.
Personal and Social Capability
Personal and Social Capability
Students will be able to:
Learn how scientific knowledge informs and is applied to daily life
Explore how scientific debate can contribute to communities
Develop skills in communication, initiative, goal setting, decision making and interacting with others
Expand capacity to question, solve problems, explore and display curiosity.
Make informed choices that impact a student's health, environment
Consider a range of science applications to meet personal and social needs
Ethical Understanding
Ethical Understanding
Students will be able to:
Form and make ethical decisions in relation to experimental science, codes of practice and the use of scientific information and science application
Explore what integrity means in science
Explore and apply ethical guidelines to investigations
Consider implications of investigations on others, the environment and living organisms
Use scientific information to evaluate claims and to inform decisions about a range of social, environmental and personal issues.
Intercultural Understanding
Intercultural Understanding
Students will be able to:
Appreciate the contribution that diverse cultural perspectives have made to the development, breadth and diversity of science knowledge and applications
Raise debates within culturally sensitive groups
Recognise that scientists work within a culturally diverse teams and communities to address international issues of importance.
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