AGQTP Consumer and Financial Literacy Professional Learning

The Australian Government has developed a national approach to provide teachers with the knowledge and skills required to deliver consumer and financial literacy learning for students in the compulsory years of schooling. Download our article Consumer Science: Beyond Testing for ideas on integrating consumer literacy concepts into your science classroom activities.

More information about the Financial Literacy project.

Directory of Hands-On Science Centres Worldwide

From this directory you can access science centres on the web. Many of these science centres have interactive, online activities. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/mwm/www/sci.html

Instructional science mini-films

Explaining such things as how to generate electricity from wind-power, how to make a battery from a potato, what are Bucky Balls, nanotubes and fullerenes? http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/27

ABC Teachers’ Resource

The ABC and the NSW Department of Education – Centre for Learning Innovation, have produced a Teachers’ Resource which pools all of the ABC science content from TV, Radio & online together into one place where teachers can search for topics/articles. http://www.abceducation.net.au

The Status of School Science Laboratory Technicians in Australian Secondary Schools

Research report prepared for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (pre-2020)

Research into science teaching and student engagement

http://undsci.berkeley.edu/teaching/educational_research.php

FUSE

DET site which includes information, learning resources, resources to support teacher professional development, policy & guidelines, digital resources and collaborative web-based tools

https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/pages/Teacher.aspx

Brains Matter podcasts

Podcasts on various issues such as global warming, special relativity, fundamentalism and evolution, origins of robotics, stem cells and more. http://www.brainsmatter.com/

Geological Society of Australia

Resources and publications, including online fact sheets, crosswords and much more. www.gsa.org.au

Primary science – solids, liquids and gases (videos)

A series for primary school teachers explaining in a set of short videos solids, liquids and gases. Produced in the UK.
http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/30

Science Literacy Teaching toolkit

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/english/literacy/Pages/literacyinscience.aspx

Science Research DET Page

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/science/Pages/research.aspx

NASA earth observatory

Satellite images of drought in Australia and various other environmental and climate-related images.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

…and image of the day
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD

Engaging short talks with animations

http://www.ted.com/

Water and environmental sustainability

savewater!® has produced three sets of worksheetsin line with the new Australian curriculum:

  • Water Savers, on saving water in and around the home for years 6 – 8
  • Carbon Tradies, on environmental sustainability locally for years 7 – 9
  • Climate Change. The Cold Hard Facts, based on documentary for years 9 – 10

These activities sheets and associated teacher’s guides are available to download from http://www.savewater.com.au/how-to-save-water/in-education/