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Science and Technology
24 hours face to face + blended + Swinburne Online
One Semester or equivalent
Hawthorn, Online
Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
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.
Requisites
Prerequisites
EDU10026
Introduction to Academic Language, Literacy and Numeracy in EducationAND
137.5 credit points
Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Teaching Period 3
Location
Online
Start and end dates
04-November-2024
09-February-2025
09-February-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-November-2024
Census date
29-November-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
27-December-2024
Results released date
04-March-2025
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Summarise the importance of science content, processes and attitudes in teaching young children
- Describe key science and technology concepts and explain how to promote concept development for children aged birth to five years of age
- Evaluate teaching approaches to science and technology appropriate to the content area and levels of understanding of the children they teach including assessment strategies
- Design learning opportunities, and learning plans that contribute to children’s interest in and understanding of scientific thinking using relevant science and technology curriculum documents from the relevant Early Years Learning Framework and/or the Victorian Early Years Developmental Learning Framework
- Create opportunities for design, technology and digital technologies to be integrated with science learning experiences
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Live Online Class | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
On-campus Class | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
Specified Activities Various | 4.00 | 12 weeks | 48 |
Unspecified Activities Various | 5.50 | 12 weeks | 66 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 12.50 | 12 weeks | 150 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
---|---|---|---|
Portfolio | Individual | 50% | 3,4,5 |
Report | Individual | 50% | 1,2,5 |
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
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.