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  • Unit Title

    Secondary Science Education 2

  • Unit Code

    SCE2102

  • Year

    2025

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Janette Linda HEAD

Description

This unit will expand students' understanding of current principles and issues in teaching, learning and the assessment of secondary science and its links with technology. The unit will continue to develop contemporary curriculum and pedagogical strategies for Years 7-12, with an emphasis on teaching upper school science. A key emphasis of this unit is to extend the students ability to plan effective learning activity sequences, as well as develop meaningful formative and summative assessment strategies. This unit will also help students become familiar with uses of information communication technologies to support learning in the 21st century secondary science classroom.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from SCE2101

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SCE2241

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Creatively plan and implement sound pedagogical approaches informed by current learning theory to the teaching and learning of science curriculum across Years 7-12.
  2. Understand the structure, rationale, scope and sequence of the upper school science learning area, as expressed in Australian contemporary curriculum documents, by applying these to the construction of lesson sequences.
  3. Creatively plan and implement a variety of active teaching and learning strategies appropriate to the delivery of inquiry-based science curriculum across Years 7-12.
  4. Analyse and create a range of valid and reliable assessment techniques relevant to the teaching of secondary science.
  5. Implement a range of meaningful uses of information communication technology (ICT) in the delivery of effective science learning sequences.

Unit Content

  1. Assessment techniques in science subjects; diagnostic, formative and summative assessment; ensuring validity and reliability of test instruments; conducting practical tests; and monitoring student progress.
  2. Development of a range of teaching strategies: for example, practical work, demonstrations, expositions, ICTs , small group and whole class discussions appropriate to the teaching of inquiry based science.
  3. Organisation of the upper secondary curriculum, with particular reference to science courses and the requirements for secondary graduation and tertiary entrance.
  4. Planning teaching programs in secondary science: with particular reference to catering for multi-level classes - small group teaching techniques, self paced programmes, individualised instruction, learning styles.
  5. Resources to support the teaching of science: eg. Information communication technology, science investigations, the school laboratory (technician), excursions (e.g. Perth Zoo), video, school library and other outreach activities.
  6. The relationships between learning outcomes and teaching procedures: making appropriate choice of techniques for given learning outcomes.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 211 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshop style teaching and learning processes where lectures will interweave with group discussions,co-operative group work,practical activities, peer teaching and directed readings.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectDigital resource40%
AssignmentProgram60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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