Science and Mathematics Education 2

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Science and Mathematics Education 2
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Aims

• This subjects aims to help students develop their
  personal understandings of the goals, purposes
  and methods of teaching science and mathematics

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Learning objectives or outcomes

• On completion of this course students should be
  able to
• critique the various approaches to teaching
  mathematics / science in the middle years
• suggest and implement methods of teaching that
  are appropriate for teaching science /
  mathematics in the middle years
• apply skills of lesson observation and analysis
• plan and teach integrated units of work in
  mathematics / science

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Assessment
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Text and Course homepage

• There is no set text, readings will be provided
  on the course website, access to the book below
  will be useful for those students with a Science
  focus.
• Venville, G., Dawson, V. 2004, The Art of
  Teaching Science, Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest.
• http//www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/11788/

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Overview

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Middle Years Learners Are

• Experiencing adolescence and the accompanying
  emotional, physical and sexual changes
• Learning to form, articulate and manage
  relationships
• Keen to develop greater interdependence with
  their peers and independence in their lives

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Middle Years Learners Are (cont)

• Questioning schooling and why they are there and
  reflecting on who they are, where they belong,
  what they value and where theyre going.
• Developing their own voice, often challenging the
  voices of their parents/caregivers, teachers and
  society.
• Aiming for a stronger sense of belonging through
  participation in wider adolescent cultures.
• Becoming aware that they can make changes for
  themselves and others.

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For You As a Teacher This Means-

• Increased focus in the middle years on
• Analytic depth
• Intellectual challenge and rigour
• Critical thinking
• Critical literacy and higher order analysis
• Dialogue
• Connection to students cultural background
• Knowledge
• Problem-based learning
• The worlds of work, citizenship and community
  life

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Looking at one strategyThe 5 Es Approach

• The 5 Es model provides a framework for
  structuring a sequence of lessons consistent with
  a constructivist approach.
• Engage,
• Explore,
• Explain,
• Elaborate,
• Evaluate.

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Engage-

• The engage phase sets the context, raises
  questions and elicits students existing
  understandings.
• Create interest and stimulate curiosity by using
  a variety of techniques.
• Raise open-ended questions to create interest or
  to reveal student ideas and beliefs.
• Compare students ideas in writing to reveal
  their understandings and beliefs.

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Explore-

• Involves investigation work in which students
  gain first-hand knowledge or experience of the
  phenomenon of interest.
• Students carry out open investigation work to
  explore questions and test their ideas.
• They investigate and solve problems.
• They observe, test ideas and try to answer
  questions.

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Explain

• In pairs or in small groups they compare their
  ideas.
• Introduce definitions and terms to describe
  concepts and ideas.
• Students construct explanations and answer
  focused questions that reinforce explanations.
  They justify their explanations or reconsider
  them.
• They write or draw to clarify and record
  explanations.

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Elaborate

• Students use and apply concepts.
• They carry out further practical activities or
  investigations.
• Students offer explanations in new contexts and
  answer questions that help them to apply their
  understanding.
• They may reconstruct or extend their
  explanations.

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Evaluate

• Students and teachers look for evidence of
  changes in the students ideas, beliefs, skills
  and the kinds of questions they ask.
• Students review and evaluate their explanations
  They reflect on their own learning.

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Challenge for Today!

• Build a car that will go up the maximum slope
  possible !

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How ? Engage

• Raise open-ended questions to create interest or
  to reveal student ideas and beliefs.
• Working in a group of 3 or 4 (choose your group
  wisely!), You need to construct a moving vehicle
  from the Lego Technics provided.
• with only the battery housing separate.

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Reporting

• Record the processes you went through!-
• Your group will need to develop a POWER POINT
  presentation that indicates what your group did
  initially, finally and show any changes that you
  made along the way
• You will need to finalise this and have it ready
  to present next week

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Things to Consider-

• How will you keep track of your progress? E.G.-
  Notes,? Diagrams?
• What did you start with?
• What did you change?
• Was it better or worse?
• When are you using science? Or maths?
• What science/maths concepts do you think you are
  using?