Scientific knowledge has changed peoplesâ 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 AlâBattani in the tenth century (Skills: Literacy, Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding)