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Leading
Australian Curriculum: Science
Day 1
Australian Curriculum
PURPOSE OF 4 DAY MODULES
• Curriculum leaders develop capacity to lead change and support schools and network of schools with the implementation of Australian Curriculum: Science
• Teachers improve their confidence with teaching science content of the Australian Curriculum
Australian Curriculum
PURPOSE OF TRAIN THE TRAINER
Curriculum leaders have:
• a clear understanding of the key messages
• an opportunity to practice their presentations skills
• an opportunity to consider the implications of their context for the delivery of the Australian Curriculum: Science
Australian Curriculum
OVERVIEW OF MODULES
• Module 1 – Overview, Chemical science
• Module 2 – Physical science, Science Inquiry Skills, Science as a Human Endeavour
• Module 3 – Resources, Biological science, assessment
• Module 4 – Achievement standards, Earth and space science, case studies
ACTION LEARNING TASKS
- Teaching program
- Assessment task with work samples
Australian Curriculum
PRESENTATIONS
• Participants will plan and present key aspects of the 4 Day Modules to colleagues.
• Presentations will be on Day 4 in small groups
• Planning opportunities provided over the three days
Australian Curriculum
KEY MESSAGES
• The three year formal implementation period commences in July 2012 as the total curriculum package, comprising Curriculum Content, Achievement Standards and Resources, including annotated work samples for the first phase of the Australian Curriculum, is available.
• Schools will not be required to use the Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards to make a summative assessment or report student achievement during 2012.
• The Department’s Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Policy is current at this point in time.
• For most teachers, this means that what they teach and how they teach it will remain largely unchanged in 2012.
CHECK FOR CLARIFICATION
Australian Curriculum
SUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS
• 62 Teacher Development Schools provide targeted support to schools and school networks.
• The Institute for Professional learning plays a key role in brokering and co-ordinating support for teachers and administrators.
• Teachers have access to digital resources through the K-12 Resources website and Resources Online.
• 4 Day Leading Australian Curriculum modules for each learning area for curriculum leaders
• Train the Trainer for key curriculum leaders in regions
Australian Curriculum
SUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS
• The Curriculum Support website provides schools with news, advice and practical resources to ensure teachers have up to date information throughout the implementation period, including:
• A series of PowerPoint presentations available – an overview and learning area specific
• Australian Curriculum Mapping Documents available on the Curriculum Support website.
• A set of Frequently Asked Questions
• Graphic overviews for Phase 1 Australian Curriculum
CHECK FOR CLARIFICATION
Australian Curriculum
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM: SCIENCE AIMS, RATIONALE AND ORGANISATION
WHY SCIENCE?
JIGSAW
Form 6 groups to become an ‘expert’ on one aspect of the introduction to the science curriculum.
- Individually read section and note key messages
- Within your ‘expert’ group discuss the key messages
- Return to ‘home group’ and share key messages
DEBRIEF STRATEGY
Australian Curriculum
SHAPE OF THE CURRICULUM
Science has 3 interrelated strands: SIS, SHE, SU
Students are encouraged to explore science, its concepts, nature and uses through clearly described inquiry processes
Australian Curriculum
Curriculum Framework Australian Curriculum
Investigating Science Inquiry Skills
Earth and Beyond ( Earth and Space Sciences) Science Understanding
Energy and Change (Physical Sciences)
Life and Living (Biological Sciences)
Natural and Processed Materials (Chemical Sciences)
Working Scientifically cluster
- Communicating Scientifically
- Science in Daily Life
- Acting Responsibly
- Science in Society
Science as Human Endeavour
Australian Curriculum
SCIENCE (ORGANISATION)
• Science Understanding across each of the science ‘disciplines’ is taught every year
• Science as a Human Endeavour and Science Inquiry Skills are taught over two years
• The sub-strands of Science Understanding are:
- Biological sciences - Chemical sciences - Earth and Space sciences
- Physical sciences.
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DEBRIEF OF SESSION 1
In your journals answer the following:
• What concerns do you have about:
- Content
Share with partner.
Share with whole group
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MORNING TEA
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OVERARCHING IDEAS
• Patterns, order and organisation
• Form and function
• Stability and change
• Scale and measurement
• Matter and energy
• Systems
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WATCH IT GROW ?
Predict how living things will grow and change.
Create drawings of living things when they were younger and older.
Record their ideas about how living things grow and change and have offspring's similar to themselves.
Discuss a variable that might affect the growth of mealworms .
Compare similarities and differences between babies and children.
Compare similarities and differences of their features from when they
were a baby to now.
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OVERARCHING IDEAS
CONCEPT MAP
- 6 groups, with each group selecting an overarching idea
- Groups draw a concept map highlighting key aspects of their overarching idea
- Each group shares their concept map with whole group
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INTEGRATION
Year 7: an example of integration
• Science Understanding: ACSSU111Classification
• Science as Human Endeavour: ACSHE119 Changes with new evidence
• Science Inquiry Skills: ACSIS125 Fieldwork
Students learn about how classification of living things into kingdoms has changed over the years with new discoveries, especially understandings about micro-organisms. Students experience first hand importance of classification through fieldwork and setting pitfall traps.
Australian Curriculum
SCIENCE UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT
• Progression of concepts from Foundation to Year 10
• Sequencing of the learning is appropriately ordered
• Curriculum focus across the phases are:
- Foundation – Year 2 – (awareness of self and the local world)
- Years 3 – 6 – (recognising questions that can be investigated scientifically and investigating them)
- Years 7 – 10 – ( explaining phenomena involving science and its applications)
Australian Curriculum
SCIENCE AS A HUMAN ENDEAVOUR
• The content in this strand is described over two years
• There are two sub-strands:
- Nature and development of science
- Use and influence of science
SCIENCE INQUIRY SKILLS
• The content in this strand is described over two years
• There are five sub-strands:
- Questioning and predicting
- Planning and conducting
- Processing and analysing data and information
- Evaluating
- Communicating
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DEBRIEF OF SESSION 2
In your journals answer the following:
• What concerns do you have about:
- Content
- Strategies used?
Share with partner.
Share with whole group
Australian Curriculum
LUNCH
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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
In Phases of learning – Think, Pair, Share:
• Individually, write in your journals a response to:
- What concepts in Chemistry are critical for students to learn in your phase of learning?
• In pairs draw a graphic representation of Chemical Science
• Share your drawing with another pair in another phase of learning and explain the concepts you included.
Australian Curriculum
CHEMICAL SCIENCE
• Understanding the composition and behaviour of substances
Students will:
• Classify substances based on their properties or their composition
• Explore physical changes and investigate how chemical reactions result in the production of new substances
• Recognise that all substances consist of atoms and atoms can be rearranged
Australian Curriculum
PRESENTATION PLANNING
Expectations:
• All participants will present the 4 Day Modules in their regions
• All materials will be sent to presenters
• Modules may be divided into smaller blocks of time so that sessions can be run after school hours
• Key messages are not changed
• Action learning approach
Australian Curriculum
PRESENTATION PLANNING
• Day 4 – time for planning and presentations
• Each pair represents a phase of learning
• In pairs develop a 15 minute presentation covering a particular aspect from the 4 day modules
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PLANNING FOR PRESENTATIONS
Focus areas for presentations
• Key messages and support to schools
• Science Understanding – (Biological science, Physical science, Earth and Space science, Chemical science)
• Science Investigation Skills
• Science as Human Endeavour
• Overview/Organisation of Science and resources
Australian Curriculum
DEBRIEF OF SESSION 3
In your journals answer the following:
• What concerns do you have about:
- Content
- Strategies used?
Share with partner.
Share with whole group
Australian Curriculum
REFLECTION
In your journals respond to the following:
• What did I learn today? (Refer to TWLH)
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- What else do you need to know to be effective in this leadership role?
- What are your concerns?
- What is going well?
- What could be improved?
DEBRIEF