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=Week 4 - Science - Australian Curriculum and Science Inquiry Skills =

Part 1: General Capabilities - Australian Curriculum
Pull out the main ideas from your nominated capability. Create a Tagxedo using the key idea.

Part 2: Potential Exam Question
Describe what it means to ‘think and work scientifically’. In your response, discuss the importance of evidence and identify some of the scientific skills that students should develop in an ECE OR Primary science classroom.

Expert groups


 * 1) think and work scientifically
 * 2) importance of evidence
 * 3) some science skills students should develop in an ECE classroom
 * 4) some science skills students should develop in a primary classroom

Google Doc with some responses: Click here to access the document

Each group please create a primarypad or titanpad for your group and share it with group members - email Jenny the link and she will upload it here.!

Part 3: Inquiry Approach
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Questions to as a focus when viewing the video: What does Mussallam believe is our greatest tool as teachers? What are Mussallam’s 3 rules of learning? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How can we apply this to our understanding of inquiry learning?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PowerPoint re investigations

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Part 4: Hands-on Investigation
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We will work in groups to complete the "On the Move" investigation.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create a Variable grid:

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 * || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dependant variable: Distance rolled ||  ||
 * || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dependant variable: Distance rolled ||  ||

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use a variable grid at the start to plan the investigation. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Useful definitions: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This helps the students to write an investigation question. In the middle of the grid you put the dependent variable, in this case, it is the distance rolled. Around the outside, you put all the variables that could affect this. Once these have been identified, you get the students to label the independent variable and then explain it to the students that all of the other variables need to be kept the same in order for it to be a fair test. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students then conduct the tests (choose 1 object and test it on different surfaces, keeping the other variables constant), record results and represent results in any way suitable to the age group. At this point, it is important to emphasise appropriate maths skills for the age group. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students then briefly share their results and how they did it- this might have to be reduced depending on time. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Review Questions from the topic: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What is a fair test? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What are viariables <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What are key elements of investigations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Variable- anything that effects an investigation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Independent variable- what is changed
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dependent variable- what is measured
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Controlled variables what is kept the same

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">investigation planners:

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Part 5
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Representing Data – how an why – what are the possibilities?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Finally: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Next week is Biological science.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Then Week 6 is Scitech – meet at the bottom of the stairs at the time specified. Get name ticked off, be prompt, professional dress.