• Semester 2 (Day)

Synopsis

The  aim  of the unit is to develop students' understanding of content
in  science,  in parallel with their awareness of ways of transforming
this  understanding of the content so that what they know and the ways
they  have  come  to  know it become accessible to the  children  they
teach.  Sessions will involve the presentation of relevant  scientific
ideas,  together with the identification of ways in which these  ideas
might be transformed so that they are accessible to children and young
adolescents, Students will have the opportunity to examine  their  own
misconceptions,  and  to understand how such misconceptions  might  be
avoided.  Problem-solving skills will be advocated  together  with  an
approach  to  science  that incorporates honesty, open-mindedness  and
information sharing.

Content will include:
1    Selected topics from the Queensland Years 1 - 10 science syllabus
     content  strands (Earth and Beyond, Energy and Change,  Life  and
     Living, Science and Society and Natural and Processed Materials);
2    Application  of  the notion of pedagogical content  knowledge  to
     each  content  area   encountered,      and  the  development  of
     suitably  transformed  content  which  would  be  accessible   to
     learners in the appropriate age groups.