Primary Science Education

This subject will develop and consolidate Teacher Candidates’ understanding of major science concepts through examination of children’s everyday experiences and application of the Clinical Teaching Model. Teacher Candidates will engage in rich problem solving and learn how to identify and utilise valid and reliable data, such that they develop teaching strategies that support students to engage in robust scientific inquiry capable of being critiqued by their peers. The teaching of inquiry teaching strategies will occur through the development of science pedagogies throughout the exploration and investigation of the science content areas of biological, physical, chemical, space and earth sciences and Science as a Human Endeavour. This subject references the Australian/Victorian Curricula.