School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Science Education for Secondary Students 2
  • Unit Code

    SCE4282
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Christina Maria NORRIS

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 purpose of this unit is to develop the skills of preparation and presentation of various active teaching strategies used in secondary science classrooms, as well as effective formative and summative techniques for assessing the learning outcomes from lessons. This unit will also help students become familiar with uses of information communication technologies to support learning in the 21st century secondary science classroom.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Both on-campus and residency mode of delivery are available. Selected Pre-service Teachers may complete some aspects of the unit within the residency schools as part of the residency mode.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit SCE4210

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SCE2241

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Use an understanding of the rationale, and scope and sequence of the science learning area, as expressed in Australian contemporary curriculum documents, and apply this to the construction of lesson sequences.
  2. Demonstrate creativity in the implementation of a variety of active teaching and learning strategies appropriate to the delivery of inquiry-based science curriculum across Years 7-12.
  3. Analyse a set of contemporary curriculum offerings in order to create a range of valid and reliable assessment techniques relevant to the teaching of science.
  4. Implement a range of meaningful uses of information communication technology (ICT) in the delivery of effective science learning sequences.
  5. Use an understanding of current theories of learning to justify procedures which will develop scientifically acceptable concept frameworks in school science.

Unit Content

  1. The relationships between learning outcomes and teaching procedures: making appropriate choice of techniques for given learning outcomes.
  2. Planning teaching programs in secondary science as informed by current learning theory, with particular reference to cooperative learning strategies and student-centered ICTs.
  3. Resources to support the development of scientific literacy, eg. Information communication technology, science investigations, the school laboratory (technician), excursions (e.g. Perth Zoo), video, school library and other outreach activities.
  4. Assessment techniques in science subjects; diagnostic, formative and summative assessment; ensuring validity and reliability of test instruments; conducting practical tests; and monitoring student progress.
  5. Purposes and procedures of assessing student outcomes. Students will be guided in the evaluation and design of valid and reliable formative and summative assessment procedures and instruments.
  6. Creating meaningful digital educational resources for the science classroom.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshop style teaching and learning processes where lectures will interweave with demonstrations, 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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentProgramming Assignment60%
ReportScience Investigation40%

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Science Education for Secondary Students 2
  • Unit Code

    SCE4282
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Christina Maria NORRIS

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 purpose of this unit is to develop the skills of preparation and presentation of various active teaching strategies used in secondary science classrooms, as well as effective formative and summative techniques for assessing the learning outcomes from lessons. This unit will also help students become familiar with uses of information communication technologies to support learning in the 21st century secondary science classroom.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Both on-campus and residency mode of delivery are available. Selected Pre-service Teachers may complete some aspects of the unit within the residency schools as part of the residency mode.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit SCE4210

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SCE2241

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Use an understanding of the rationale, and scope and sequence of the science learning area, as expressed in Australian contemporary curriculum documents, and apply this to the construction of lesson sequences.
  2. Demonstrate creativity in the implementation of a variety of active teaching and learning strategies appropriate to the delivery of inquiry-based science curriculum across Years 7-12.
  3. Analyse a set of contemporary curriculum offerings in order to create a range of valid and reliable assessment techniques relevant to the teaching of science.
  4. Implement a range of meaningful uses of information communication technology (ICT) in the delivery of effective science learning sequences.
  5. Use an understanding of current theories of learning to justify procedures which will develop scientifically acceptable concept frameworks in school science.

Unit Content

  1. The relationships between learning outcomes and teaching procedures: making appropriate choice of techniques for given learning outcomes.
  2. Planning teaching programs in secondary science as informed by current learning theory, with particular reference to cooperative learning strategies and student-centered ICTs.
  3. Resources to support the development of scientific literacy, eg. Information communication technology, science investigations, the school laboratory (technician), excursions (e.g. Perth Zoo), video, school library and other outreach activities.
  4. Assessment techniques in science subjects; diagnostic, formative and summative assessment; ensuring validity and reliability of test instruments; conducting practical tests; and monitoring student progress.
  5. Purposes and procedures of assessing student outcomes. Students will be guided in the evaluation and design of valid and reliable formative and summative assessment procedures and instruments.
  6. Creating meaningful digital educational resources for the science classroom.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshop style teaching and learning processes where lectures will interweave with demonstrations, 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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectDigital resource40%
AssignmentProgram60%

Core Reading(s)

  • (2012). The art of teaching science: For middle and secondary school. . (2nd ed.). Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin.

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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