St Raphael's School

  Science Education

“Successful science education is about students engaging in the practices of science and eschewing the monolith of textbook material to be memorised and recalled.”

The practice of critical discourse in science classrooms.

By Kenneth L. Huff and Roger W. Bybee

 🖥 STEM Job of the fortnight

Cryptologist

Cryptologists design and analyze systems to transmit information securely. 

🎩 Foundation: That's my hat!

 

CHEMICAL SCIENCES

Testing 3 hats

Learning Intention

Students will be able to share current scientific views about objects, materials, and their properties.

Success Criteria

Students can predict, observe, and explain the properties of three prototype hats based on the properties of their materials. 

 

CHEMICAL SCIENCES

My Marvellous Hat

Learning Intention

Students will be able to draw a plan to decorate a party hat using objects made from different materials. 

Success Criteria

Students can follow their plan to make a decorated party hat that will be suitable for either a rainy day or a sunny day.

🥣 Year 1/2: All Mixed Up

 

CHEMICAL SCIENCES

Fun Fluids

Learning Intention

Students will be able to predict what will happen when different liquids are mixed together.

Success Criteria

Students can work in teams to follow a procedural text to make mixtures of liquids. 

 

CHEMICAL SCIENCES

Forensic Science

Learning Intention

Students will be able to test different pens using paper chromatography. 

Success Criteria

Students can solve a crime using their science inquiry and problem-solving skills. 

🧴️Years 3-6: Drowning in plastic

 

CHEMICAL SCIENCES

Plastic not so fantastic

Learning Intention

Students will be able to understand how different materials (hard and soft plastics, liquids and oils) interact with the ocean and how this impacts our oceans.

Success Criteria

Students can:

  • know different types of oceanic pollution.
  • Know the physical properties of different sources of pollution (plastics, hard, soft, liquid).
  • Know the different ways materials may change over time in marine environments.
  • Know how to help reduce plastics entering the ocean.

❄️ Delivering milk bottles to school!

A big thank you to all the students who have been collecting milk bottles. Students can deliver all their clean milk bottles to the STEM/Music space during the remainder of term 4. We will aim to build the Igloo during term 1 2021. 

 

Please ensure all milk bottles and lids are thoroughly washed with detergent.

Students have really enjoyed storing the milk bottles in our Sustainability Shed. 

📧 Contact Details

Patty Luna:   pluna@srprestonwest.catholic.edu.au

 

Please note, I will respond to emails Monday to Friday, between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm.