ACSHE119

Scientific knowledge has changed peoples' understanding of the world and is refined as new evidence becomes available

Elaborations

• investigating how advances in telescopes and space probes have provided new evidence about space (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• researching different ideas used in the development of models of the solar system developed by scientists such as Copernicus, Khayyám and Galileo (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding)
• researching developments in the understanding of astronomy, such as the predictions of eclipses and the calculation of the length of the solar year by Al‑Battani in the tenth century (Skills: Literacy, Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding)

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