What students learn in AC9S7I05
This unit helps students build a clear, usable understanding of Analyse data and information to describe patterns, trends and relationships.... The goal is not to memorise one answer pattern. Students should be able to explain the idea, recognise it in a new example and apply it in a short practice or worksheet task.
- Start with the main idea: analyse data and information to describe patterns, trends and relationships and identify anomalies.
- Use concrete examples, pictures, oral explanation and short written responses before moving to independent practice.
- analysing change in predator and prey numbers over time to identify predator-prey cycles identifying patterns and relationships in data sets such as identifying qualitative relationships between the mass of a planet and its gravity
- Finish with mixed questions so students must choose the correct strategy rather than copy the last example.
Curriculum coverage and elaborations
The content description and elaborations below show the curriculum ideas taught in this unit. Items marked as teaching context support lesson planning but may not appear in the initial eight-question activity.
- Content description: analyse data and information to describe patterns, trends and relationships and identify anomalies
- E1: analysing change in predator and prey numbers over time to identify predator-prey cycles
- E2: identifying patterns and relationships in data sets such as identifying qualitative relationships between the mass of a planet and its gravity
- E3: analysing data to identify patterns in the proportions of a day spent in sunlight and in darkness and relating these patterns to the seasons
- E4: identifying anomalies in data and investigating their effect on observed patterns or relationships
- E5: collaborating with First Nations Australians communities to create a calendar as a representation of seasonal patterns and relationships using digital tools (teaching context)
How to use this unit
Read the topic guide, use the teacher slide for instruction, then complete the Worksheet, Practice and Test. These three activities use the same eight-question unit bank.
Teacher resource
AC9S7I05 teacher slide
Use this one-page PDF to introduce the key idea, vocabulary and teaching sequence before students begin the activities.
Open teacher slide (PDF)Common mistakes to watch for
- Describing what is seen without connecting it to a question, pattern or prediction.
- Using everyday words only and missing simple scientific vocabulary.
- Changing more than one thing in an investigation, which makes the comparison unfair.
International curriculum mapping
This table gives closest-topic mapping for search and planning. The Australian Curriculum code is exact; overseas entries are broad equivalents because each jurisdiction structures outcomes differently.
| Region | Curriculum | Closest mapping |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | Australian Curriculum v9.0 | AC9S7I05 — analyse data and information to describe patterns, trends and relationships and identify anomalies |
| Victoria | Victorian Curriculum F-10 | Year 7 Science: closest match in Processing, modelling and analysing. Use this page as a VIC-aligned practice and worksheet reference. |
| NSW | NSW Curriculum | Stage 4 Science: closest content focus for Analyse data and information to describe patterns, trends and relationships... and related outcomes. |
| United States | Common Core / NGSS | Grade 7 NGSS science closest topic match for Analyse data and information to describe patterns, trends and relationships.... |
| England / UK | National Curriculum | Key Stage 3 / Year 7: closest programme-of-study match for Analyse data and information to describe patterns, trends and relationships.... |
| Canada | Provincial and territory curricula | Grade 7 closest topic match. Canada varies by province, so use this as a broad Ontario/BC-style learning outcome reference. |
| New Zealand | New Zealand Curriculum | Level 4 Science: closest achievement-objective topic for Analyse data and information to describe patterns, trends and relationships.... |
| India | NCERT / CBSE | Class 7 closest NCERT/CBSE topic match for Analyse data and information to describe patterns, trends and relationships.... |