Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Parkville Campus) (Volume 5 page 176)
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Note: Special requirement: Participation in weekly seminars, including short presentations on contract work in educational settings as arranged.
Credit points: 20.0 Staff: Terry Harrison.
Prerequisite: School Studies C1 or equivalent.
Contact: Two hour workshops and contract work in an educational setting.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- clearly articulate their understandings of selected concepts in science and technology (especially physical science) from within the framework of the National Science Statement and the Victorian Curriculum and Standards Framework;
- be more aware of learners' understandings of the science concepts under focus and be able to develop techniques to elicit them;
- more skillfully choose and critically evaluate curriculum materials that enable the development of learners' science and technology; and
- ably assess learners' understandings in science and technology within the framework of the National Science Profiles and the Victorian Curriculum and Standards Framework.
Content:
Students will study aspects of the natural and technological worlds relevant to primary teachers; in the process clarify their understandings about some chosen concepts; investigate and describe aspects of learners' conceptual understandings in science; investigate curriculum resource material available for teaching particular topics.
Assessment:
A review of 2,500 words of children's understandings of a selected concept in science incorporating a literature review (50 per cent); and the production (development, implementation and evaluation) of a science curriculum unit of 2,500 words extending over at least six hours (50 per cent).
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Parkville Campus) (Volume 5 page 176)
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