Unit of Study EDUC3028 Teaching and Learning Science and Technology in Context (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Education
Placement

No

Pre-requisites

96 Credit points in a Bachelor of Education course

Enrolment information

This unit includes undertaking a project within a community/school.

Unit description

Explore theoretical positioning and the science behind a range of local and global issues with a strong focus on sustainability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders histories and cultures acknowledging the scientific knowledge of Australia’s First Peoples. The unit enables opportunities for creative and critical thinking, researching, collaboratively seeking solutions to local ecological issues and being actively involved in science and technology skills and processes in everyday worlds and local communities.

Unit content

Module 1: First Nations Peoples’ Knowledges and Sciences

Module 2: Theorising for Our Future Planet

Module 3: Local Ecological Issues

Module 4: Local Ecological Project 1

Module 5: Local Ecological Project 2

Module 6: Local Ecological Project 3

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Online	Term4	Term4

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

cultivate understanding of Indigenous theories and sciences

critically interrogates theoretical underpinnings and the science behind a range of local and global issues

work scientifically and technologically seeking solutions to local/global ecological issues

engages in collaborative research within the community seeking solutions to local/global ecological issues

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Tutorial 2 hour

Tutorial 1 hour

Practical 1 hours 30 minutes

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Assessment
Blog	40%
Project	60%

Prescribed learning resources

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Fee information

Domestic

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