Resources

Readings

• Consistent teacher judgement in action; a resource for schools. Professional Support and Curriculum Directorate, NSW DET, 2002. Distributed to all NSW DET primary schools.
• K-6 Science and Technology syllabus and support document
• K-6 Science & Technology revised Outcomes and Indicators
• Supporting SciTech in the primary classroom; a resource to support the implementation of Science & Technology from Early Stage 1 to Stage 3 CD-ROM. NSW DET, 2003. Distributed to all NSW DET primary schools.
  Also available on the Internet
• Bruniges, Michele. The consistency and comparability of teacher judgement(pdf 95kb)
• Hackling, Mark. Working scientifically; implementing and assessing open investigation work in science. A resource book for teachers of primary and secondary science. Education Department of Western Australia, 1998
• Assessment for learning. Curriculum Corporation. The site includes worksamples in several KLAs including SciTech and professional advice in the area of formative assessment.

Information for participants

The document Participant information (pdf 22kb) was mailed to participants prior to the beginning of the course.

Participant's agreement (pdf 19kb) - to be discussed at Workshop 1.

Digitising and scanning your worksample

Read more information on digitising and scanning (pdf 25 kb)

IrfanView is a free! software application which enables you to manage your images. You can view, convert, scan, resize, play movies and sounds. Download the software and the plugins and install the software first, then the plugins.

Navigating around pdf documents

Watch an animation of the various options available in Acrobat pdf documents. The examples relate to an online project, Count Me In Too Online, however they are equally relevant to this project.

Permission to publish student worksamples

Although your worksamples will be posted to a discussion board which is only available to course participants and support personnel, it is still necessary to gain parent/carer permission to publish the work. Could you please provide a copy of the attached Permission to publish student worksamples form to each student whose work you wish to use. Please request a signed copy back from the parent/carer and retain it as proof of permission granted. Please only use first names to identify students.

Travel claims

Please use the attached travel claim documents (pdf 47kb) if you wish to submit a claim for travel to and from the workshops.

Software to read pdf files and play videos

You need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view files in pdf (portable document file) format.

You need Quicktime player installed on your computer to play the video files that are part of Supporting SciTech in the primary classroom

The latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader and Quicktime Player can be downloaded, free of charge, by clicking on the appropriate icon below.