The faculty of science at UNSW in collaboration with high school teachers has been creating a collection of depth study resources to assist high school teachers with the new NSW senior science syllabi. These resources fit into the new Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Investigating Science and Earth and Environmental Science courses. Resources are freely available to teachers Each collection contains a variety of resources such as ideas about how teachers may want to assess their students, suggested experiments that can be done at school with common school equipment, ideas for excursions to UNSW or field trips, videos of researchers working in the relevant area with a discussion of why their area is interesting and how they got to where they are now and models or sets of data that students could analyse.
Resources are hosted on UNSW’s Openlearning platform, making it easy for teachers to share ideas and their experiences. Physics have also developed a number of accredited online professional development modules covering content which is new to the stage 6 science syllabi.
This presentation will provide a review of what is being done at UNSW’s Faculty of Science and, specifically, discuss the two resources which cover Climate Science content using Carbonator, an on-line climate model, also developed at UNSW.