AC9S3H01

Elaborations

• AC9S3H01_E1investigating the stories of people who used multiple observations to develop scientific explanations, such as 17th-century entomologist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, who was the first to record the nature of metamorphosis
• AC9S3H01_E2exploring how farmers use soil tests to monitor and manage the health of farms
• AC9S3H01_E3investigate how 18th-century physicists such as Jean Ingenhousz and Sir Benjamin Thompson collected data on conduction of heat to determine the best conductors or insulators
• AC9S3H01_E4exploring age-appropriate science reports and journal articles and identifying where in the text the author has included data, findings or explanations
• AC9S3H01_E5viewing a documentary or webinar and observing how scientists and researchers share their data and explanations