Available in 2024
Course code

SCIM1040

Units

10 units

Level

1000 level

Course handbook

Description

Introduces students in the Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood and Primary)(Honours) and Bachelor of Teaching(Primary)(Honours) programs to the study of science and technology. The major strands include physical phenomena, living things, information and communications, the earth and its surroundings, products and services, the built environment and introductory computing. It aims to provide students with a good appreciation of science and technology with particular consideration to preparing them to teach the Science and Technology Key Learning Area curriculum to primary school students. This course is structured around lectures, tutorials and labs.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Callaghan

  • Semester 1 - 2024

Ourimbah

  • Semester 1 - 2024

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate sufficient knowledge to allow students to teach in the science and technology key learning area at primary school level;

2. Understand and appreciate the sciences through investigation, examination, interaction and environmental issues;

3. Show the relationship between science and technology;

4. Demonstrate the nature, scope and importance of communications and information technology; and

5. Develop computing literacy and appreciate the role of computers in education.


Content

Topics will be drawn from a range of sciences and technologies including:

  1. Built environments with regard to structures and spaces that people construct, modify and adapt;
  2. Information and communication and related technology and the ways people make, store, organise and transfer images and information;
  3. Living things with respect to people, animals and plants;
  4. Physical Phenomena associated with energy, space and time;
  5. Products and Services in which students learn about goods and commodities and the systems used to produce and distribute them;
  6. Earth and its surroundings and the resources it provides;
  7. Computing literacy with an emphasis on basic applications.

Requisite

This course replaces SCIM2030. If you have successfully completed SCIM2030 you cannot enrol in this course.


Assessment items

Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Lab-based Assignment

Project: Integrated Project

Formal Examination: Final Examination


Contact hours

Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan

Computer Lab-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s)
  • See course outline for lab schedule
Lecture-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 9 week(s) starting in week 1

Semester 1 - 2024 - Ourimbah

Computer Lab-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 6 week(s)
  • See course outline for lab schedule
Lecture-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 9 week(s) starting in week 1

Course outline