EPS735 - Primary Science and Technology Education
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | Students commencing in 2020 must be enrolled in course E762, E764, E765 |
| Prerequisite: | Students commencing course E762, E764, E765 in 2020, |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | EES540, ESS540 |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | Time engaging in learning activities is expected to average 8 hours per week. This includes: working through the activities, videos, readings in the online modules; attending or watching online seminars; preparing for and reflecting on small group teaching; and 4-hour school-based or excursion site-based seminars and small group teaching on non-placement teaching weeks (approx. 6-8 weeks). Independent preparation study throughout the trimester is required to complete all assessments and become a teacher of primary science and technologies. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | Time engaging in learning activities is expected to average 8 hours per week. This includes: working through the activities, videos, readings in the online modules; attending or watching online seminars; preparing for and reflecting on small group teaching; and either a one week school based intensive in Geelong or Melbourne, or weekend TeachFest, or small group teaching with your own or relatives children. You are also welcome to attend any of the site based experiences including the excursions, and practical activity intensives. Independent preparation study throughout the trimester is required to complete all assessments and become a teacher of primary science and technologies. |
| In-person attendance requirements | Online (intensive): 5 x 5.5-hour school-based seminars over one week |
Content
The unit covers the following topics:
- science and design & technologies pedagogies: conceptual change, multi-modal representations;
- linking research, theory and resources to practice;
- states and national curricula planning – planning and implementing a sequence of science and design and technologies lessons;
- science and technology practical activities;
- the nature of science and the relationship between design and technologies and science;
- the relationships between science and technology to the capabilities curriculum: higher order thinking and reasoning, creativity and imagination, ethical decision making, and intercultural competence;
- resources for a contemporary primary science classroom, including the use of the community, teacher professional associations, and ICT to support learning in Science and Design and Technologies;
- assessment, as, of and for learning – diagnostic and formative and summative;
- science conceptual knowledge: including floating and sinking, force and energy, light, heat, animal and plant structure and function, biodiversity, life cycles and animal behaviour, rocks, earth and atmospheric processes, environmental science, sustainability, the nature of science;
- design thinking; and
- safety in science and design and technologies teaching and excursions.
Hurdle requirement
Complete and document six primary science practical activities.
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