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Science domain - Learning and Teaching support

Science home | Learning and Teaching support | Assessment | Professional Learning | Research

This section contains links to web sites, online resources and tools that provide learning and teaching support for teachers, including:

• The Science Continuum P-10
• Sample Science
• Student Learning resources
• Science Innovation in Victorian Schools
• Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) Resources
• Science-Related Websites

 

The Science Continuum

The Science Continuum P-10 is an evidence-based resource to assist teachers to support student progress through the VELS Standards. The Continuum provides teaching approaches that support all students to achieve a sound understanding of key scientific ideas. Linking expert practice and research, the Continuum explores students’ ideas based on their everyday experiences, the age-appropriate scientific view, critical teaching ideas and teaching activities.

 

Sample Science

Sample Science P-6 is a unit planning resource for primary teachers. It provides engaging and challenging activities that encourage students to explore science ideas. Teachers can sample from these activities to develop units that support students to achieve the VELS Science standards.

 

Student Learning resources

DigiLearn - the new way teachers can access and download The Learning Federation’s learning objects and digital resources. Teachers are now able to search online by keyword or browse by domain to discover hundreds of different digital learning resources.

PoLT – Classroom vignettes
The PoLT Online Professional Learning Resource contains a number of classroom activity snapshots (vignettes) which focus on particular stages of learning and explore the Principles in action within a science classroom.

• Principle 2: Level 6 Science - Deduce the Practical Design from Limited Information
• Principle 3: Level 4 Science - Semantic Maps in the Primary School
• Principle 4: Level 3 Science - The Science in Spoons
• Principle 4: Level 4/5 Science - Posters in Science

Science Innovation in Victorian Schools

SHINE – St Helena Innovative Nanotechnology Education (http://www.shine.vic.edu.au/SHINE) was created by science teachers at St Helena Secondary College. The SHINE site enables teachers and students to access information about nanotechnology and nanoscience and provides a range of learning and teaching resources. Nanotechnology is an exciting, emerging science platform combining chemistry, physics, mathematics and the biological sciences in exploring unique phenomena at the molecular scale, or nanoscale.

Ecolinc (http://www.ecolinc.vic.edu.au) - a science and technology innovation centre located in Bacchus Marsh, provides innovative programs for P-12 students. Programs focus on sustainable environmental development practices. The web site lists details about its projects and programs, including booking information.

Gene Technology Access Centre (GTAC) (http://www.gtac.edu.au) - provides a wide range of programs in molecular and cell biology to enrich student learning, with particular reference to DNA science and applications in biotechnology. This web site contains online resources and information for teachers, booking information, and program details.

Victorian Space Science Education Centre (VSEEC) (http://www.vssec.vic.edu.au) - promotes the learning of science by providing engaging, hands on activities for students and teachers. VSSEC is also part of a global network of Space Science Centres and Institutions and links between local and international business and industry. The web site provides an electronic newsletter CAPCOM and various other downloadable resources.

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) Resources

Primary Connections
Primary Connections is a curriculum and professional learning resource linking the teaching of science and literacy. Primary Connections provides curriculum units that support science teaching from Prep to Grade 6. Each unit describes outcomes, step-by-step lessons, equipment required, and links to additional resources, assessment tasks, background information, and resource sheets.

• Primary Connections (http://www.science.org.au/primaryconnections)

Read about how three Victorian schools have used the Principles of Learning and Teaching P-12, the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and the inquiry-based teaching approach in Primary Connections to effectively engage students in science.

• Case study: Scientific literacy at Coatesville Primary School
• Case study: Science is jumping at Commercial Road Primary School
• Case study: Linking science literacy and community at Serpell Primary School

 

Scientists in Schools
Scientists in Schools promote science education in primary and secondary schools. The programs will help to engage and motivate students in their learning of science, and broaden awareness of the types and variety of exciting careers available in the sciences.

• Scientists in Schools (http://www.scientistsinschools.edu.au)

 

Biotechnology Online Secondary School Resource
The Biotechnology Online Secondary School Resource helps teachers and students to explore and understand the differing points of view on current practices and the ethical and moral questions that form a part of the present debate on biotechnology. It includes informational text, activities, and support notes for teachers.

• Biotechnology Online Secondary School Resource (http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au)

 

Deep Space in the Classroom (http://www.astronomy.mq.edu.au/deepspace) - an astronomy teaching resource available to all Australian high schools. This has been developed by Macquarie University under the DEEWR-supported ASISTM project "Bringing Deep Space into the Classroom", a 2007-08 pilot study on engaging school students in science using astronomy and access to the robotic, internet-controlled Faulkes Telescopes in Australia and Hawaii.

 

Science-related websites

Science educational resource centres section contains links to Victorian organisations that provide services to schools such as excursions, incursions, and school resources

Science education web sites contains links to websites that would provide appropriate information to schools