AC9S7H03

Elaborations

• AC9S7H03_E1investigating how scientific knowledge that larger reserves are better for maintaining ecosystem function might interact with competing viewpoints, values and interests for land use when planning ecological reserves
• AC9S7H03_E2examining how laboratory-grown meat might reduce impact on ecosystems and considering any social, ethical and economic implications of developing laboratory-grown meat for wide consumption
• AC9S7H03_E3examining how the use of desalination plants to produce fresh water has impacted marine ecosystems where the desalination plants are located
• AC9S7H03_E4investigating the contributions of First Nations Australians’ knowledges in the identification of medicinal properties of endemic plants and the ethical, environmental, social and economic implications of others using these knowledges
• AC9S7H03_E5investigating the ethical, environmental, social and economic implications of proposed scientific responses that involve cross-cultural partnerships and build on First Nations Australians’ land management techniques
• AC9S7H03_E6discussing how scientific knowledge of the forces involved in flight has led to changes in aircraft design and any ethical, environmental, social and economic considerations of these changes
• AC9S7H03_E7researching how properties of gases were utilised in the gas warfare in the First World War and the subsequent development of the Geneva Protocol and the later adoption of the Chemical Weapons Convention international arms control treaty