485-349 Learning Area: Sci & Technology 2

485-102 Learning Area: Science & Technology 1 or approved equivalent.

This subject examines technological systems and associated underlying scientific principles in the environmental and technological worlds relevant to primary children; and the development of technological equipment and processes and their impact on the environment, for example, food production and processing, manufacturing, electronic systems, and technology and environmental change. Sources of teaching materials, equipment and resources appropriate to the primary school level are identified. The structure and content of the science and technology key learning areas of the Victorian Curriculum and Standards Framework are examined.

Semester 1: A written curriculum unit (2000 words) 30%, related to primary science teaching. The topic to be developed into the curriculum unit will be given.

Semester 2: A written teaching report (1000 words) and constructed technological artifact relating to the teaching of primary technology. A 2-hour examination based on the whole year's study.

• Board of Studies, Curriculum and Standards Framework II: Science. 2000.
• Board of Studies, Curriculum and Standards Framework II: Technology. 2000.
• R Cross, Teaching Primary Science: Empowering children for their world. Addison Wesley Longman, 1996.