EES245 - Primary Science Education 1
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Warrnambool, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in E200, E330, E359 |
| Prerequisite: | Students enrolled in course E359 must have passed 5 credit points at level 1 Students enrolled in course E200 must have passed at least 2 units from EAD110, EAD111 and EAD113 Students enrolled in course E330, NIL |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | EES240, EES345 |
| 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 | 1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week
NIKERI (CBD): 3 x 6-hour on-campus intensive (workshops/seminars) per trimester 8 x 1-hour online seminars per week for 8-weeks |
| Note: | *Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus) E359 accelerated cohorts: on-campus and online learning activities available during ETP300 placement. |
Content
This unit introduces students to contemporary principles and issues in the teaching of science, and extends their understandings and critical appreciation of science and its importance in primary school education. The unit will consist of content sequences designed to support students learning to clarify their own understandings of the nature of science and their own dispositions towards science learning, and to plan and implement effective teaching sequences. Engagement with children in small group teaching situations will occur at points designed to support and extend their understandings and skills in planning and teaching science.
The content will include:
- Key concepts in science drawn from physical, chemical, biological and earth sciences; investigative processes in science; and approaches to supporting students learn these concepts at different stages of primary schooling.
- Components of contemporary Australian science curricula and how these can be interwoven to design activity sequences that lead to quality learning in science.
- Science for a sustainable future; socially responsible scientific literacy; science-society-technology-environment interactions.
- Contemporary theories of learning in science including constructivist and conceptual change perspectives; the role of representation and modelling; scientific reasoning; and the nature of science.
Unit Fee Information
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