K-6 Science & Technology
Science and Technology develops students’ skills in thinking, investigating and problem-solving. It gives them knowledge and skills in scientific investigation, design and applied technology. This subject builds on the curiosity children have about their natural and built environments.
Primary Connections
Salamah College implements Science through ‘Primary Connections’ units of work. The program is based on an innovative teaching and learning approach that links science with literacy, uses cooperative learning, embeds assessment with teaching and learning, and follows an inquiry process including student-planned investigations. Research has demonstrated that the program improves teachers’ confidence, self-efficacy and practice, students’ learning, and the status of science within schools. Primary Connections uses an inquiry-orientated teaching and 5Es learning model to enable students to participate in cooperative learning to develop explanations for their hands-on experiences of the Science phenomena.
5E Learning Model:
Engage
Explore
Explain
Evaluate
Science & Technology
Salamah College teaches Science and Technology through a dynamic and explicit approach that encourages students to inquiry and investigate their world by providing practical experiences for critical and creative thinking. We aim to spark curiosity to develop an understanding of cause and effect and build skills to interpret data to support scientific arguments.
The new syllabus is presented through the subject areas of Science and Technologies. There are 4 science focus areas and 4 technologies focus areas for each stage of learning.
Science
Through the science focus areas students develop skills to question, test, and refine ideas and concepts about the natural world. There are opportunities within science to use digital and design technologies content.
Technology
Students also have opportunities to develop technological skills. Using digital technologies and design principles, students produce innovative and creative solutions to suit a user’s needs. The technologies focus areas frame learning about design processes to design and create solutions.
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