485-355 Learning Area: Sci & Technology 2 (Adv)

A minimum grade of H2A in 485-102 Learning Area: Science & Technology 1or approved equivalent.

Topics include technological systems and associated underlying scientific principles in the environmental and technological worlds relevant to primary children; 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; identification of sources of teaching materials, equipment and resources appropriate to the primary school level; project studies related to aspects of children's technological world demonstrating the underlying scientific principles; and the structure and content of the science and technology key learning areas of the Victorian Curriculum and Standards Framework and major relevant International and National curriculum perspectives.

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) 20% and constructed technological artifact relating to the teaching of primary technology. A 2-hour examination based on the whole year's study 50%.

• 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.