Science is a dynamic, collaborative and creative human endeavour arising from our desire to make sense of our world through exploring the unknown, investigating mysteries, making predictions and solving problems.

Australian Curriculum SCIENCE Rationale: COLLABORATION

Science is a dynamic, collaborative and creative human endeavour arising from our desire to make sense of our world through exploring the unknown, investigating mysteries, making predictions and solving problems.

Have you set up structures to help your students work together effectively?
Are the teams inclusive of ability, gender, cultural background? Do they have enough time to work together successfully?
Do you encourage students to participate in all aspects of team investigations, including doing the hands on activities and taking intellectual risks?

• Collaboration helps your students to build a deeper understanding of science concepts.
• Collaboration on a shared purpose brings diverse thinking and skills that they might not have as individuals.
• Collaboration as part of the investigation process: from posing a question to investigate, collecting data, interpreting and evaluating the findings.
• Through collaboration, students can develop a sense of how collaborative investigations might affect scientists’ ideas and processes.

Physical Sciences: Forces
How much wind does it take to fly a kite? Can you have too much wind?
What is the best shape to make a kite fly? What other factors do you need to think about? Size, weight, trees….
Can you have too much wind? Can you measure how much wind is needed to fly your kite? If so, what will you measure?
How can you work as a team to find out?

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