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Hooper, Clea – Teaching Science, 2022
In 2020, just as COVID-19 reached Australian shores, a group of enthusiastic teachers had been anticipating their imminent Bush Blitz TeachLive expedition to Rungulla National Park to take part in Australia's largest biodiversity survey. It took two years for their trip to eventuate, but it was worth the wait. Three candidates from the deferred…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Biodiversity, Natural Resources
Hooper, Clea – Teaching Science, 2021
It takes a special kind of teacher to enlist in a Bush Blitz TeachLive expedition: camping; long days hiking or wading through marshland; catching arachnids, lizards and insects; and all the while managing to remotely teach students back in the classroom. The latest instalment of Bush Blitz TeachLive sent five Northern Territorian teachers to…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Recreational Activities
Michie, Michael; Rioux, Joël; Hogue, Michelle – Teaching Science, 2021
We suggest that two interpretations of time -- linear time and cyclical time -- that complement each other when planning lessons, can be used in both Western and Indigenous science. The idea of time in the Australian Curriculum: Science is examined and seen to be primarily associated with the Western science tradition, so it is suggested that the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, National Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Hackling, Mark; Byrne, Matt; Gower, Graeme; Anderson, Karen – Teaching Science, 2015
Aboriginal children experience social and educational disadvantage and many are not engaged with schooling or learning, which results in significantly lower levels of educational attainment. The Aboriginal Education Program delivered by Scitech to remote Western Australian schools has been shown to significantly increase student ratings of their…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Disadvantaged Youth, Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students
Keys, Philip M. – Teaching Science, 2008
This study reports on the strategies that regional science teachers found useful when early career scientists--tertiary science students were employed as peer mentors in their science classroom with indigenous and non-indigenous Year 7-10 students. Teachers engaged in a participatory action research to define the role of the early career…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Mentors, College Students, Scientists
Aldous, Carol; Barnes, Alan; Clark, Julie – Teaching Science, 2008
A summer school in Science and Technology was held in January 2008 for nineteen Indigenous students commencing year 11 who were identified as having high academic potential in science and mathematics. Known as the Aboriginal Summer School for Excellence in Technology and Science (ASSETS) the summer school was held at the Australian Science and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Indigenous Populations, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Wilson, Kimberley; Stemp, Kellie – Teaching Science, 2008
Edmund Rice Education Australia Flexible Learning Centres (EREAFLCs) operate within a social inclusion framework to "walk with" young people who have disengaged from the traditional schooling system. Students attending the centres face multiple stressors in their everyday lives, as well as significant barriers to achieving success in the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Science Education