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Unit description
This discipline unit surveys science and technology and its place in contemporary society. This unit puts an emphasis upon the science and technology that relates to everyday experience. Focuses on interpretations and implications and processes of science and technology.
Unit content
Topics
- Broad and critical knowledge and understanding of the academic discipline of science and the academic discipline of technology, including recent theory and practice
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Current and emerging concepts related to the nature and role of science and technology, including:
- the science process of working scientifically (scientific inquiry, science as a human endeavour)
- the technology process of working technologically and designing and making
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Knowledge and understanding (Science Understanding, Science as a Human Endeavour)
- Natural environment
- Made environment
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
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| 1 | describe the nature and content of science and technology in contemporary society |
| 2 | use and analyse the processes of ‘working scientifically’ and ‘working technologically’ (the design process) |
| 3 | elicit and identify common alternative conceptions associated with science content and common views of science/technology and scientists/technologists |
| 4 | compare personal and sociocultural constructivist views of learning science and technology with other perspectives |
| 5 | clearly articulate accepted scientific conceptions related to key concepts/phenomena/events relevant and appropriate to the science and technology content studied this session critically reflect on their own science and technology learning in relation to their discipline knowledge. |
| 6 | demonstrate skills in personal, academic and disciplinary literacies |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- describe the nature and content of science and technology in contemporary society
- use and analyse the processes of ‘working scientifically’ and ‘working technologically’ (the design process)
- elicit and identify common alternative conceptions associated with science content and common views of science/technology and scientists/technologists
- compare personal and sociocultural constructivist views of learning science and technology with other perspectives
- clearly articulate accepted scientific conceptions related to key concepts/phenomena/events relevant and appropriate to the science and technology content studied this session critically reflect on their own science and technology learning in relation to their discipline knowledge.
- demonstrate skills in personal, academic and disciplinary literacies
Teaching and assessment
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