Content description ACSHE121
Science / Year 7 / Science as a Human Endeavour / Use and influence of science
Content description
Science understanding influences the development of practices in areas of human activity such as industry, agriculture and marine and terrestrial resource management
Elaborations
- investigating everyday applications of physical separation techniques such as filtering, sorting waste materials, reducing pollution, extracting products from plants, separating blood products and cleaning up oil spills
- investigating how advances in science and technology have been applied to the treatment of water in industrial and household systems
- investigating how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge is being used to inform scientific decisions, for example care of waterways
- researching the different scientific responses to the rabbit plagues in Australian agricultural areas
Cross-curriculum priorities
