ESS444 - Science: Curriculum Study
Unit details
Year | 2015 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Cohort rule: | (For students enrolled in courses D342, D344, D351, E359, E365, E377 and E455 only) |
Unit chair: | S Delaney |
Prerequisite: | A sub-major sequence in one area of science, together with a first-year study in another science subject or an approved equivalent. |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | EME213, EME444, ESS244, ESS744 |
Contact hours: | Campus: 1 x 3 hour Seminar per week Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin |
Note:This unit is a prerequisite for the biology, chemistry and science curriculum study units. |
Content
Topics to be addressed in this unit include:
- Lesson planning in science;
- The nature of science and rationale for teaching it;
- Research into students’ understandings of science and implications for teaching science;
- Contemporary understandings about students’ learning of science;
- Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) structure as it relates to the teaching of science.
- The Nature of Science and implications for the teaching and learning of science – models and representations in science, and argumentation;
- Assessing the development of students’ understandings and skills in science;
- Teaching and learning strategies to support students’ understandings in science;
- Planning and management of practical science learning activities;
- Scientific literacy and literacies of science; and
- Applications of ICT in the science classroom.
Assessment
1. Presentation of a teaching resource from a science education journal (500 words, 20%).
2. Concept map (500 words or equivalent, 20%).
3. Major assignment requiring the development of a sequence of lessons within the relevant contemporary curriculum document (e.g. Victorian Essential Learning Standards) (3000 words, 60%).
All tasks will be criterion-referenced.
Unit Fee Information
Student Contribution Rate* | Student Contribution Rate** | Fee rate - Domestic Students | Fee rate - International students |
$769 | $615 | $2452 | $2612 |
* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.