Teaching Primary Science Constructively by Keith Skamp and Christine Preston1. Primary science: every teacher, every child -- 2. Constructivist views of learning and teaching science -- 3. Implementing the Australian Curriculum: Science with a constructivist mindset -- 4. Thinking and working scientifically -- 5. Energy -- 6. Electricity -- 7. Movement and force -- 8. Living things and environments -- 9. Living things: science and design and technologies -- 10. Materials and their properties -- 11. Physical and chemical change -- 12. Our place in space -- 13. Our planet Earth -- 14. Weather and our environment -- Coda -- Appendix 1: At a glance: key teaching and learning strategies and other pedagogical topics -- Appendix 2: At a glance: key content knowledge.
ISBN: 9780170379717
Publication Date: 2017
Primary Science by RutledgeThis book provides a combination of practical lesson ideas and theory, focusing particularly on those areas that research has shown most trainee primary teachers struggle with.
Primary Connections is a set of units aligned to the Australian Curriculum produced by the Australian Academy of Science.
Digital versions of the first set of 31 Primary Connections units are available free for educational, non-commercial use by Australian educators through the National Digital Learning Resources Network (www.scootle.edu.au).
The full set of books are available at the library under Call number 372.35.
STEM Professionals in Schools"STEM Professionals in Schools is a national volunteer program that facilitates partnerships between schools and industry to bring real STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) into the classroom."
This website is provided by the State Library of Victoria and contains comprehensive easy to follow research and essay writing guides, over 700 digitised primary sources from the State Library of Victoria, a database of teachers' resources with links to the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and the Australian Curriculum.
Written by a range of history professionals, including HMIs, this book provides excellent ideas on the teaching, learning and organization of history in primary and secondary schools.
The Northern Territory Library contains a wealth of Territory stories, and aims to comprehensively collect the documentary record of this history in all its forms. You can search the library collections through the Northern Territory Library catalogue and through digital collections in the Territory Stories database.
Find a huge range of resources on the website of Australia’s premier organisation of mathematics educators. It aims to:
support and enhance the work of teachers; promote the learning of mathematics; and represent and promote interests in mathematics education.
Asia-focused digital content lists created by Asia Education Foundation to support teachers implement the Australian Curriculum for the Arts.
Great books for kids
Sahara Special by Esmé Raji CodellThere are two files on Sahara Jones. The one the school counselor keeps is evidence that she's a fifth-grader who needs special education. The other is the book Sahara is secretly writing, her Heart-Wrenching Life Story and Amazing Adventures. The latest chapter in her book unfolds when her mother insists that she be taken out of special Ed. So Sahara is facing fifth grade in the regular classroom, again. But why even try to do the work, Sahara wonders, if everything just winds up in the counselor's file? Enter Miss Pointy, the new fifth-grade teacher. With her eggplant-colored lipstick, and strange subjects such as "Puzzling" and "Time Travel," she's like no other teacher Sahara has ever known. Through Miss Pointy's unusual teaching, storytelling, and quiet support, Sahara finds the courage to overcome her fears and prove which file shows her true self.
Call Number: 028.5 CODE
Publication Date: 2003
Nanberry by Jackie FrenchThe year is 1788, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. Seen through the eyes of the colony's only surgeon and Nanberry, the Aboriginal boy adopted by Surgeon White who finds himself uncomfortably between two worlds, it is a new perspective on Australia's earliest days of white settlement.
Illustrations of Practice showcase teaching practice from across Australia at the four career stages of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
Provides teachers and school administrators with professional development resources showing excellent teachers and school leaders in action. You need to create an account to use the resources but this is free.
Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum. Annenberg Learner videos exemplify excellent teaching; all resources can be accessed for free
Indigenous Learners
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education by Kaye Price (Editor)Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: An Introduction for the Teaching Profession prepares students for the classroom and community environments they will encounter when teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in urban, rural and remote schools at early childhood, primary and secondary levels. The book addresses many issues and challenges faced by teacher education students and assists them to understand the deeper social, cultural and historical context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education. This is a unique textbook written by a team of highly regarded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander academics. Each chapter opens with an engaging anecdote from the author, connecting learning to real-world issues. This is also the first textbook to address Torres Strait Islander education. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education is an essential resource for teacher education students.
ISBN: 9781107685895
Publication Date: 2012
Pedagogies to Enhance Learning for Indigenous Students by Robyn Jorgensen (Editor); Peter Sullivan (Editor); Peter Grootenboer (Editor)​This book describes research undertaken by leading Australian researcher in Indigenous communities. While the chapters are Australian in their focus, the issues that are discussed are similar to those in other countries where there are indigenous people. In most cases, in Australia and internationally, Indigenous learners are not succeeding in school, thus making the transition into work and adulthood quite tenuous in terms of mainstream measures. The importance of being literate and numerate are critical in success in school and life in general, thus making this collection an important contribution to the international literature. The collection of works describes a wide range of projects where the focus has been on improving the literacy and numeracy outcomes for Indigenous students. The chapters take various approaches to improving these outcomes, and have very different foci. These foci include aspects of literacy, numeracy, curriculum leadership, ICTs, whole school planning, policy, linguistics and Indigenous perspectives. Most of the chapters report on large scale projects that have used some innovation in their focus. The book draws together these projects so that a more connected sense of the complexities and diversity of approaches can be gleaned.
Talk, Text and Technology by Inge KralTalk, Text and Technology is an ethnographic exploration of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This unique work traces the historical transformation of one Indigenous group across four generations. The manner in which each generation adopts, adapts and incorporates new innovations and technologies into social practice and cultural processes is illuminated - from first mission contact and the introduction of literacy in the 1930s to youth media practices today. This book examines social, cultural and linguistic practices and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation.
Reports and papers from ACER, an organisation that undertakes and promotes research that focuses on key issues related to the improvement of educational outcomes for Indigenous students.
'What works. The work program' helps schools to plan and act to improve the educational outcomes of Australian indigenous students. The website offers a range of electronic and print resources.
Sample classroom activities.
These lessons are the first in a series that aim to showcase the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages and to demonstrate ways to embed Indigenous knowledges into mainstream learning areas authentically.
Deadly ways to learn [kit]
Western Australia Education Dept.
Two books:
Deadly Ideas: A collection of two-way bidialectal teaching strategies from the Deadly Ways to Learn project;
Deadly Yarns: Anecdotes about Language, Culture, Identity and Power from the Deadly Ways to Learn project.
Charles Darwin University acknowledges the traditional custodians across the lands on which we live and work, and we pay our respects to Elders both past and present.