Students develop critical and creative thinking as they learn to generate and evaluate ideas and possibilities when seeking new pathways or solutions. In the Science learning area, critical and creative thinking is embedded in the skills of questioning and predicting, solving problems through planning and conducting investigations, and analysing and evaluating evidence to make decisions and draw conclusions. Students develop an understanding of science concepts through inquiry that involves selecting appropriate information, evaluating sources of information to formulate hypotheses and reflecting on the processes used to reach evidence-based conclusions. Students’ conceptual understanding becomes more sophisticated as they acquire an increasingly scientific view of the world and the ability to examine it from new perspectives.
