Science
   Updated: Mar 2001




 

The commitment to implement an outcomes-focused approach to education is central to provide appropriate learning programs for all students.

This shift to teaching, learning and assessment that focuses on students' achievement of outcomes is supported by the following publications and support materials. These are available in both print and online.

  • Science, Mathematics & Technology: Case Studies of Integrated Teaching
    A cooperative research project between Curtin University of Technology and the Education Department of Western Australia. This booklet is examines integrated teaching in the middle school years in the state of Western Australia with a particular focus on integration of Science, Mathematics and Technology.

  • Science Support Documents
    • Working Scientifically: Implementing and Assessing Open Investigative Work in Science
      A resource for teachers to support the shift towards more open investigative work in science. This provides students with opportunities to improve their level of achievement of the outcome Working Scientifically: Investigating.
      Author - A/Prof Mark Hackling, Edith Cowan University.

    • Graphics Calculators
      Materials written specifically by classroom teachers to assist teachers and students incorporating graphics calculators into classroom practice. The site includes examples of appropriate assessment tasks, user-friendly manuals for using and programming graphics calculators, a register of national and international websites, and exemplary tasks incorporating the use of the graphics calculator with computer-based laboratories, in Physics and Chemistry.

    • Getting Started - Science
      Prepared by the WA Curriculum Council, this PDF document provides guidance for schools on ways to get started on shifting towards an outcomes-focused curriculum. It also provides case studies from schools.

    • Science Videos
      Three videos were produced from the National Professional Development Program (NPDP)
      • Working Scientifically, Primary
      • Working Scientifically, Secondary
      • Conceptual Understandings in Science
      These were widely distributed to science leaders involved in the Education Department's Science Project and to District Offices between 1995-97.

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