Science and Technology

Overview

This unit provides pre-service teachers with the knowledge, skills and resources that enable them to offer a variety of science experiences to young children. It will teach an appropriate science and technology curriculum for children aged birth to five years of age.

Learning outcomes

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• The nature of science and scientific thinking
• A big history approach to science
• The fundamentals of technology – how things work
• Attitudes and dispositions – a sense of wonder
• Science experiences for children birth to five yesrs
• Essential instructional content for teaching science and technology
• The use of ICT for communication purposes and for work preparation, presentation and implementation
• Integrating science in the curriculum
• Design and sequencing of tasks in teaching science and technology
• Inquiry-based and problem-solving approaches
• Maintaining a safe and challenging learning environment
• Tools and practices for assessing, recording and reporting on children’s learning in science and technology
• Using ICT to facilitate children’s learning
• Federal and State departmental policy documents relating to teaching science and technology and their implications for teaching
• Graduate Attributes: Communication skills
• Graduate Attributes: Teamwork skills
• Graduate Attributes: Digital literacies