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Melinda Kirk – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
In an era of socio-ecological challenges and uncertain times, it is imperative that student voice is supported to enable student transformative agency and desired positive change in their lives and community. Although international policy, the Australian Curriculum, School Strategic Plans, communities, teachers, and students often advocate for…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Personal Autonomy, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Whannell, Robert; Quinn, Fran; Taylor, Subhashni; Harris, Katherine; Cornish, Scott; Sharma, Manjula – Teaching Science, 2018
Australian science curricula have promoted the use of investigations that allow secondary students to engage deeply with the methods of scientific inquiry, through student-directed, open-ended investigations over an extended duration. This study presents the analysis of data relating to the frequency of completion and attitudes towards long…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Inquiry, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science
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Wines, Chris; Pfeiffer, Linda; Scott, Amanda; Woolcott, Geoff – Teaching Science, 2018
This article illustrates an enhancement and lesson-delivery process used to engage classroom students in primary school science lessons. In the enhancement process, university educators and pre-service teachers collaborated with local experts to prepare lessons based in local or regional contexts. Lessons were designed to enable students to think…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Active Learning, Inquiry, Elementary School Science
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Kidman, Gillian – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2012
In Australia we are at a crossroads in science education. We have come from a long history of adopting international curricula, through to blending international and Australian developed materials, to the present which is a thoroughly unique Australian curriculum in science. This paper documents Australia's journey over the past 200 years, as we…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Inquiry, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
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Hobson, Brian – Australian Science Teachers Journal, 1997
Describes a worksheet developed to enable students to learn the rules for assigning oxidation states. Employs an active learning approach. Also includes a copy of the worksheet. (DDR)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Chemistry, Foreign Countries, Science Curriculum