This course will to:

1.provide a foundation of content to allow students to teach in the science and technology key learning area at primary level,
2.encourage students to 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 help students appreciate the role of computers in education.

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.

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There is no assumed knowledge

Internal Mode

Lecture
Laboratory
Tutorial

Lecture: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Computer Lab: for 1 hour(s) per Week for 10 weeks
Laboratory: for 1 hour(s) per Week for 10 weeks