Science+Resources

=Resources as part of the pilot include: =  [|Primary Connections Science] Uses an Inquiry based approach (the 5 E's) linking sicence and literacy. Modules for KPG 3 - Band 4. Under curriculum resources you will find overview of each unit (module) with associated resource links.

The [|Environorth] website has 3 sections
 * 1. Learn Savannas** - currently two interactive modules for middle years teachers and students are housed here:
 * //Savanna Walkabout//** - students can explore topend ecosystems and the role of termites, meet some local scientists and join Dr John Woirnarski's research team in Kakadu (students are guided through a scientific field work investigation).


 * //Burning Issues//** - students explore the complex issue of burning for land management accessing the Flames computer simulation model developed by CSIRO researchers to explore the effects of fire on savanna trees and grasses as well as explore how traditional Indigenous fire management is helping contain greenhouse gas emissions.


 * 2. Teach Savannas** //-// the teaching section, including curriculum links and teaching support materials for each module
 * 3. Savanna Windows** //-// the resource section for student inquiry

[|Victoria Science Continuum P-10 Concept Development Maps]



[|Victoria Science Continuum P-10 Focus Ideas] This site lists Key learnings of band level strands. The focus ideas as links on the right hand side have critical teaching ideas and purposeful teaching activites as well as key resources.


 * Working Scientifically**- **Implementing and assessing open Investigation Work in Science** for primary and secondary teachers

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[|Assessment for learning i] is a curriculum corporation website that has professional learning modules - effective feedback, straegic questioning, peer feedback and student self assessment as well as assessment tasks that include=====
 * necessary prior learning
 * a series of scaffolding activities for establishing the context within which the task can be undertaken
 * resources for students and teachers to assist in the completion of the task
 * marking rubrics for both teachers and students
 * annotated worksamples
 * suggested follow-up teaching and learning activities.

[|SEAR]- The Science Education Assessment Resources (SEAR) provide a wide range of assessment resources (or 'tasks') suitable for use across the compulsory years of schooling. The tasks have been indexed to six levels as described in the national scientific literacy progress map.

=Other resources we like and why .....please add to the table below =

Websites
[|Scootle] Scootle has been developed by The Learning Federation to enable teachers to easily find TLF learning materials and provide access to those resources to their students. Check out the learning objects for the different science strands. Register to access these materials. [|Journey North - menu of inquiry strategies] In an inquiry-oriented classroom, the teacher is a co-explorer and guide who cultivates curiosity and challenges students to think and act like scientists as they explore intriguing questions. It takes time, practice, and sometimes, a shift in teaching strategies, to create a classroom where inquiry can flourish. This web site is part of a larger Online community of classrooms from 11,000 schools, representing more than 490,000 students track wildlife such as monarch butterflies across North America during the spring migration. The instructional approach integrates various disciplines in science, math, social studies, development of personal ethics, and language arts. Explicit strategies should help both novice and experienced teachers create a climate for inquiry, support productve discussions, generate questions, plan investigations and gather data, guide consideration of evidence, and critically review research reports.

[|Biotechnology online] houses three main types of resources; interactives, work sheets, and videos, animation and audio. Teaching support includes learning pathways, issues and values and teacher advice on student interactives

 =Here are the units we used...please add below =  I used these unit for implementing the New curriculum document, Science as Inquiry. I have also included the science unit I used to accompany the document. (The tree link is not working at the moment, you can find the units I am refering to on the feedback page) Rachael McDowall ......Thanks Rachael

Professional Readings

 * Hands, Hearts and Minds** - Do all 3 need to be enagaged? If hearts are engaged then for heads on (that includes hands on with a PURPOSE) science to be be effective there needs to be a conceptual focus for lesson sequence (as opposed to a focus purely on engaging activities).

**One teacher's learning journey** **with inquiry based science teaching and learning**. Using the 5 E's and Primary Connection science.


 * The Community's Contribution to Science Learning -** Experiences with community resources are integral not peripheral to science at school

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