EPS735 - Primary Science and Technology Education
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
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| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: John Cripps Clark |
| Cohort rule: | Students commencing in 2020 must be enrolled in course E762, E764, E765 |
| Prerequisite: | Students commencing course E762, E764, E765 in 2020, |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | EES540, ESS540 |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | Time engaging in learning activities is expected to total a combined equivalent of 8-10 hours per week. This includes engagement with materials, responses to tasks, independent study and, |
| Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | Time engaging in learning activities is expected to total a combined equivalent of 8-10 hours per week. This includes engagement with materials, responses to tasks, regular forum posting and responding to others, scheduled synchronous online discussions including 1 x 2-hour online seminars plus 2-hours of practical activities and small-group teaching per week and independent study during non-placement teaching weeks (approx. 6-9 weeks). It is highly recommended that you attend scheduled synchronous discussions in CloudDeakin throughout the trimester. Alternatively, Cloud students are invited to attend:
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| In-person attendance requirements: | Cloud (intensive): 5 x 5.5-hour school-based seminars over one week |
Content
The unit covers the following topics:
- children’s perceptions of scientists and science and children’s alternative science concepts;
- science and design & technologies pedagogies: conceptual change strategies, multi-modal representations;
- linking research literature (including theoretical perspectives) to practice;
- states and national curricula planning – planning and implementing a sequence of science and design and technologies lessons;
- science Investigations – design, measurement, data representation and analysis, and writing in science;
- the nature of science and the relationship between design and technologies and science;
- the literacies of science and the role of representation in learning science;
- higher order thinking and reasoning, creativity and imagination;
- resources for a contemporary primary science classroom: the use of ICT to support learning in science and community resources;
- assessment, as, of and for learning – diagnostic and formative and summative;
- science conceptual knowledge: including floating and sinking, force and energy, light, heat, animal and plant structure and function, biodiversity, life cycles and animal behaviour, rocks, earth and atmospheric processes, environmental science, sustainability, the nature of science.
- the technology process; and
- safety in science and design and technologies.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Demonstrate, analyse and synthesise an advanced and integrated understanding of the complex disciplinary knowledges and structures that underlie the learning area curriculum and apply these knowledges to a diverse range of teaching and learning contexts | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO2 | Identify and incorporate resources and pedagogies that are consistent with intercultural and Indigenous perspectives of knowledge and learning in the learning area curriculum and which promote the inclusion and learning outcomes of culturally diverse and Indigenous learners | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO3 | Synthesise information about teacher/learner cultures, disciplinary dispositions and subjectivities, and apply this knowledge when planning, teaching and/or communicating specialist knowledge or when engaging in disciplinary advocacy | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO4 | Select, critically analyse, theorise and creatively incorporate a range of teaching and learning strategies, technologies/tools and resources, including ICT, for the purpose of supporting, extending and differentiating learning experiences for diverse learner groups and contexts | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO5 | Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of how to plan, sequence, integrate and structure learning goals, discipline and interdisciplinary knowledges, general capabilities and experiences that support, engage and challenge learners with diverse abilities and needs | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO6 | Design and apply a range of assessment strategies for different purposes, including generating learning data for analysis, improving learning outcomes and teaching, and demonstrate and theorise the appropriate mechanisms for reporting to a range of stakeholders on assessment data and outcomes | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 - Teaching Report (Pairs or individual) | 5000 words or equivalent for pairs or 2500 words or equivalent for individual | 50% | Week 5 |
| Assessment 2 - Learning Report | 2500 words or equivalent | 50% | Week 11 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link EPS735
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.
Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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