Unit 3: Living on Earth - extracting, using and managing Earth resources Earth and Environmental Science
Earth resources are required to sustain life and provide infrastructure for living (for example, food, shelter, medicines, transport, and communication), driving ongoing demand for biotic, mineral and energy resources. In this unit, students explore renewable …
Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES060
Represent data in meaningful and useful ways; organise and analyse data to identify trends, patterns and relationships; discuss the ways in which measurement error and instrumental accuracy and the nature of the procedure and sample size may influence …
ACSES060 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES061
Interpret a range of scientific and media texts and evaluate processes, claims and conclusions by considering the quality of available evidence, including interpreting confidence intervals in secondary data; use reasoning to construct scientific arguments …
ACSES061 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES062
Select, construct and use appropriate representations, including maps and other spatial representations, to communicate conceptual understanding, solve problems and make predictions
ACSES062 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES068
Science can be limited in its ability to provide definitive answers to public debate; there may be insufficient reliable data available, or interpretation of the data may be open to question
ACSES068 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES065
Models and theories are contested and refined or replaced when new evidence challenges them, or when a new model or theory has greater explanatory power
ACSES065 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES063
Communicate to specific audiences and for specific purposes using appropriate language, genres and modes, including compilations of field data and research reports
ACSES063 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES064
ICT and other technologies have dramatically increased the size, accuracy and geographic and temporal scope of data sets with which scientists work
ACSES064 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES058
Design investigations including the procedure/s to be followed, the information required and the type and amount of primary and/or secondary data to be collected; conduct risk assessments; and consider research ethics
ACSES058 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES059
Conduct investigations, including using spatial analysis to complement map and field location techniques and environmental sampling procedures, safely, competently and methodically for the collection of valid and reliable data
ACSES059 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES067
People can use scientific knowledge to inform the monitoring, assessment and evaluation of risk
ACSES067 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES079
The cost-effective use of renewable energy resources is constrained by the efficiency of available technologies to collect, store and transfer the energy
ACSES079 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
ACSES083
Producing, harvesting, transporting and processing of resources for consumption, and assimilating the associated wastes, involves the use of resources; the concept of an ‘ecological footprint’ is used to measure the magnitude of this demand
ACSES083 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum