People use science understanding and skills in their occupations and these have influenced the development of practices in areas of human activity
Elaborations
investigating everyday applications of physical separation techniques such as filtering, sorting waste materials, reducing pollution, extracting products from plants, separating blood products and cleaning up oil spills (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
investigating how advances in science and technology have been applied to the treatment of water in industrial and household systems (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding)
investigating how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge is being used to inform scientific decisions, for example care of waterways (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding)
researching the different scientific responses to the rabbit plagues in Australian agricultural areas (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
recognising that water management plays a role in areas such as farming, land management and gardening)
investigating how separation techniques are used in the food and wine industries)
considering how seasonal changes affect people in a variety of activities such as farming)
considering how sports scientists apply knowledge of forces to improve performance)