| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
Semester 1 |
| Outcomes |
Students are able to prepare an integrated teaching and learning program that extends learning across the curriculum, with a particular focus on learning in Science and Society and Environment. |
| Content |
Students analyse key features of the Science Learning Area and the Society and Environment Learning Area of the Curriculum Framework of Western Australia and related documents; appraise a range of teaching and learning strategies suitable for Science and Society and Environment at the primary school level; plan and sequence teaching and learning experiences appropriate for primary school students that achieve the outcomes from the Science and Society and Environment Learning Areas; and critique both disciplinary and integrated approaches to teaching and learning in primary school. |
| Assessment |
This comprises three assignments, one programming and two lesson planning.
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit. |
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) |
Winthrop Professor Grady Venville and Associate Professor Di Gardiner |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
Contact hours—lectures/workshops: 2.5 hrs per week for 12 weeks
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- The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change.
- Assistance with study skills, including English language skills, is available free of charge from Student Services for all enrolled students (see http://www.studentservices.uwa.edu.au/ss/learning). Student Services location: Second Floor, South Wing, Guild Village; telephone: 6488 2423.
- Books and other materials wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.
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