HSC Investigating Science Year 12 Notes

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1. What initiates an investigation: Marshall and Warren, Von Helmont and Spencer, and departures from the linear scientific methodModule 5 · Module 5: Scientific Investigations

   Practical Investigations to Obtain Primary Data

2. Choosing a methodology: Eratosthenes, Doppler, Priestley and Marshall and Warren, judged against the literatureModule 5 · Module 5: Scientific Investigations

   Different Types of Scientific Investigations

3. Writing a valid method: variables, controls, sample size, materials, ethics and time frameModule 5 · Module 5: Scientific Investigations

   Student Investigation

4. Validity, reliability and accuracy, drawing conclusions, and the structure of a scientific reportModule 5 · Module 5: Scientific Investigations

   Reliability and Validity; Reporting

5. Measuring technologies: accuracy, precision, resolution, data loggers, and analogue versus digitalModule 6 · Module 6: Technologies

   Scientific Investigation and Technology

6. Random and systematic errors, uncertainty, and processing data into tables and graphs with lines of best fitModule 6 · Module 6: Technologies

   Scientific Investigation and Technology

7. Safe technologies: safety data sheets, Work Health and Safety guidelines and risk assessmentModule 6 · Module 6: Technologies

   Scientific Investigation and Technology

8. The science-technology cycle: from X-ray diffraction, radiation detectors and the Large Hadron Collider to microscopes, radiotherapy, GM crops and earthquake-resistant buildingsModule 6 · Module 6: Technologies

   A Continuous Cycle

9. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' knowledge of plants and ethical bioharvesting from Country and PlaceModule 6 · Module 6: Technologies

   A Continuous Cycle

10. Testing a claim: valid design, sample selection and size, and emotive versus evidence-based advertisingModule 7 · Module 7: Fact or Fallacy?

    Testing Claims

11. Placebos, double-blind trials and control groups, and societal and economic influences on dataModule 7 · Module 7: Fact or Fallacy?

    Impacts on Investigations

12. Correlation is not causation: the Hawthorne effect, the 1991 hormone replacement therapy study and the Mozart EffectModule 7 · Module 7: Fact or Fallacy?

    Evidence-based Analysis

13. Science in the media: a contemporary debate, theory versus hypothesis versus belief versus law, and journal versus popular articlesModule 7 · Module 7: Fact or Fallacy?

    Reading Between the Lines

14. Conflicts of interest, the halo effect and pseudoscience: tobacco, fossil fuels, asbestos, astrology, numerology and iridologyModule 7 · Module 7: Fact or Fallacy?

    Reading Between the Lines

15. Fraud, 'publish or perish', peer review, cold fusion and fake journals: can science find the truth?Module 7 · Module 7: Fact or Fallacy?

    Science as Self-correcting – the Issues

16. Events and the public image of science: nuclear meltdowns, the smallpox vaccine, flight and damming riversModule 8 · Module 8: Science and Society

    Incidents, Events and Science

17. Why research is regulated: embryos, bioweapons, drug trials, the nuclear industry and Indigenous cultural and intellectual propertyModule 8 · Module 8: Science and Society

    Regulation of Scientific Research

18. Ethical issues and international codes of conduct: cloning, stem cells, surrogacy, GM foods and organ transplantationModule 8 · Module 8: Science and Society

    Regulation of Scientific Research

19. Space exploration versus social spending, research for economic development, and advances in world healthModule 8 · Module 8: Science and Society

    Influence of Economic, Social and Political Forces on Scientific Research

20. Governments, corporations, research budgets, benefit-sharing and cultural perspectives in directing researchModule 8 · Module 8: Science and Society

    Influence of Economic, Social and Political Forces on Scientific Research