Eco evidence Year level Year 7 – 10 Duration 120 minutes Cost $240 per group (up to 32 students) Audience Secondary Learn the ways information can be utilised to better understand the world around us and work towards a more sustainable future. Students analyse data about our environment, examining the role information can play in constructing knowledge and how it can empower us to find solutions. Focusing on a key environmental issue, students gain an appreciation of how this information can be utilised to work towards a more sustainable future. Register Your Interest Student experience Students will: Differentiate different sources of data Explore the many forms of information and data and identify the contextual strengths and weaknesses Identify key environmental issues facing Western Australians Consider the role that information and data can play in representing and finding solutions for environmental issue Skills development This program links to the following strands of the Western Australian Curriculum: Sustainability - develops the knowledge, skills, values and world views necessary for people to act in ways that contribute to more sustainable patterns of living. Year 7 Science Construct and use a range of representations, including graphs, keys and models to represent and analyse patterns or relationships in data using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS129) Mathematics Identify and investigate issues involving numerical data collected from primary and secondary sources (ACMSP169) Digital technologies Explore how to acquire data from a range of digital sources (ACTDIP025) Year 8 Science Construct and use a range of representations, including graphs, keys and models to represent and analyse patterns or relationships in data using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS144) Digital technologies Evaluate the authenticity, accuracy and timeliness of acquired data (ACTDIP025) Humanities and Social Sciences Interpret information and/or data to identify key relationships and/or trends displayed in various formats (e.g. change over time in a series of images, identify spatial distributions from a map) (WAHASS71) Year 9 Science Analyse patterns and trends in data, including describing relationships between variables and identifying inconsistencies (ACSIS169) Digital technologies Explore techniques for acquiring, storing and validating quantitative and qualitative data (ACTDIP036) Humanities and Social Sciences Analyse information and/or data in different formats (e.g. to explain cause and effect relationships, comparisons, categories and subcategories, change over time) (WAHASS86) Year 10 Science Analyse patterns and trends in data, including describing relationships between variables and identifying inconsistencies (ACSIS203) Humanities and Social Sciences Draw evidence-based conclusions by evaluating information and/or data, taking into account ambiguities and multiple perspectives; to negotiate and resolve contentious issues; to propose individual and collective action in response to contemporary events, challenges, developments, issues, problems and/or phenomena (WAHASS90) Register Your Interest