What is SciTech?

Science and technology education provides opportunities for students to become creative, critical, innovative and enterprising as they systematically engage with science and technology content and processes. From Kindergarten to Year 6 students become increasingly sophisticated in their conceptual understandings about science and technology and their ability to apply the processes of designing and making and investigating independently and in new contexts.

Students participate in the process of investigation by observing, classifying, exploring, predicting, testing, modifying and applying understanding to reach a conclusion. Through scientific investigation students develop conceptual understandings about physical phenomena, living things and earth and its surroundings.

Students learn to meet needs and create opportunities by applying a design process to develop products, systems and environments. They explore needs, generate ideas, model, test, produce and reflect. Through designing and making students develop conceptual understandings about products and services, information and communication and built environments.

Science and Technology K-6 provides a learning space where students can explore the way our world functions and changes. They develop the attitudes, skills and knowledge that enable them to be productive participants in their world. To gain a picture of one school’s approach to SciTech, view the video below, then consider the explanations of science education and technology education.

One school's Science and Technology information product

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