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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Introductory
Former School/College
Anti-requisites
have completed unit/s: EDU00413 - Science and Technology Education I: Foundations
Unit aim
This discipline unit surveys science and technology and its place in contemporary society. This unit puts an emphasis upon the science and technology that relates to everyday experience. Focuses on interpretations and implications and processes of science and technology.
Unit content
Topics
- Broad and critical knowledge and understanding of the academic discipline of science and the academic discipline of technology, including recent theory and practice
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Current and emerging concepts related to the nature and role of science and technology, including:
- the science process of working scientifically (scientific inquiry, science as a human endeavour)
- the technology process of working technologically and designing and making
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Knowledge and understanding (Science Understanding, Science as a Human Endeavour)
- Natural environment
- Made environment
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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1 | describe the nature and content of science and technology in contemporary society | Intellectual rigour | Lifelong learning | Cultural competence | ||||
2 | use and analyse the processes of ‘working scientifically’ and ‘working technologically’ (the design process) | Intellectual rigour | Communication and social skills | |||||
3 | elicit and identify common alternative conceptions associated with science content and common views of science/technology and scientists/technologists | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
4 | compare personal and sociocultural constructivist views of learning science and technology with other perspectives | Intellectual rigour | Creativity | Communication and social skills | ||||
5 | clearly articulate accepted scientific conceptions related to key concepts/phenomena/events relevant and appropriate to the science and technology content studied this session critically reflect on their own science and technology learning in relation to their discipline knowledge. | Intellectual rigour | Creativity | |||||
6 | demonstrate skills in personal, academic and disciplinary literacies | Intellectual rigour | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- describe the nature and content of science and technology in contemporary society
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- GA7: Cultural competence
- use and analyse the processes of ‘working scientifically’ and ‘working technologically’
(the design process)
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- elicit and identify common alternative conceptions associated with science content
and common views of science/technology and scientists/technologists
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- compare personal and sociocultural constructivist views of learning science and technology
with other perspectives
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA2: Creativity
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- clearly articulate accepted scientific conceptions related to key concepts/phenomena/events
relevant and appropriate to the science and technology content studied this session
critically reflect on their own science and technology learning in relation to their
discipline knowledge.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA2: Creativity
- demonstrate skills in personal, academic and disciplinary literacies
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
- Prescribed eBook compiled for SCI10003 and EDU00413: Skamp, K & Preston, C, 2015, Readings for Foundation Science & Technology SCI10003 & EDU00413 Compiled by Marianne Logan, 1st edn, Cengage Learning, Australia. ISBN: 9780170372688.