AC9S10H04

What Year 10 Science students should achieve

Coverage is judged against the achievement standard — not by ticking every content description. These are the official Year 10 Science standard sentences this code builds towards:

• By the end of Year 10 students explain the processes that underpin heredity and genetic diversity and describe the evidence supporting the theory of evolution by natural selection.
• They analyse and connect a variety of data and information to identify and explain patterns, trends, relationships and anomalies.
• They select equipment and use it efficiently to generate and record appropriate sample sizes and replicable data with precision.
• They describe trends in patterns of global climate change and identify causal factors.
• They analyse the key factors that influence interactions between science and society.
• They select and construct effective representations to organise, process and summarise data and information.

The Science as a human endeavour progression either side of AC9S10H04

A class can only meet this descriptor if they were taught the one before it. If yours hasn't, that's where the lesson starts — not here.

Other Year 10 Science as a human endeavour codes

• AC9S10H01explain how scientific knowledge is validated and refined, including the role of publication and peer review
• AC9S10H02investigate how advances in technologies enable advances in science, and how science has contributed to developments in technologies and engineering
• AC9S10H03analyse the key factors that contribute to science knowledge and practices being adopted more broadly by society