Science day
– Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science
| 8:25-8:55 | Registration | ||||||
| 9:00-9:45 | Keynote 1 Putting the “S” in STEM – What can a STEM program look like? Julie Dodt Woodridge State High School |
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| 9:50-10:50
Workshop 1 |
QCAA – Senior Biology Syllabus | Student projects using the IoT Alex Pudmensky |
Models for STEM programs Ben Cossalter & Adam Hooper |
Chembytes: Embedding dynamic visualisation tools to support active learning A/Prof Gwen Lawrie |
Building Spatial ability in your students – the key to success in STEM Sheryl Sorby |
MOOCs Query101x Building Enquiry Skills |
Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis Tour |
| 10:50-11:15 | Morning Tea | ||||||
| 11:20-12:20 | STEM Panel Peter Cavallaro |
QCAA – Senior Physics Syllabus | MOOCs Meta101x Denial 101x |
Implementing and assessing science enquiry in years 7-10 Manjula Sharma and Scott Cornish ASELL |
Using interactive e-simulations in your chemistry classroom Effie Kartsonaki |
New practicals or EEI/EMI projects for biology and marine science classes Dana Burfeind | Institute for Molecular Biosciences Tour |
| 12:25-1:25 | QCAA – Science Syllabus Update | Physics Pracs- Doing Quantum Mechanics – A phenomenological and experimental approach Peter Cavallaro |
Science Communication: Linking Science and Community for our Students Stephen Pinel |
QCAA – Senior Chemistry Syllabus Update | Biology pracs Manjula Sharma and Scott Cornish |
Teaching Systems Thinking in Science with games Ariel Marcy | |
| 1:25-2:00 | Lunch | ||||||
| 2:00-3:00 | Keynote 2 Physics and the Future Professor David Reitze Executive Director of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) Laboratory |
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| 3:00 | Networking | ||||||
