AC9S7H02

Elaborations

• AC9S7H02_E1investigating classification systems used by First Nations Australians and how they differ in context and use from those used by contemporary science
• AC9S7H02_E2investigating how First Nations Australians have developed sustainable harvesting practices and cultural protocols based on deep ecological understandings
• AC9S7H02_E3exploring how the personal beliefs of a scientist may influence the questions they choose to pursue and how they investigate those questions, such as Richard Levins, whose political views led him to focus on population ecology, or Joseph Rotblat, a physicist who refused to work on science that might lead to development of an atomic bomb
• AC9S7H02_E4considering why it is important to recognise that different people in society have different perspectives on the introduction of biological controls to eradicate an invasive species
• AC9S7H02_E5exploring the work of Wang Zhenyi, an acclaimed female scholar of 18th-century China, including her experiments in studying lunar eclipses
• AC9S7H02_E6exploring how David Unaipon, a Ngarrindjeri man from Coorong region of South Australia, used his cultural knowledge and understanding of the aerodynamic properties of boomerangs to conceptualise a ‘vertical lift flying machine’ in 1914