School Projects: An Overview
School projects fell into one of two categories: pre-existing, well-tried projects with a defined outcome original projects, designed to appeal to the interests of students or to respond to a particular school or local context. Pre-existing projects …
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Report Findings: Benefits & Challenges
Many teachers commented on the unanticipated benefits for their students from their involvement in the STEM Connections project. The development of general capabilities, such as Critical and Creative Thinking, and Personal and Social Capability, was overwhelmingly …
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References & Appendices
Australian Curriculum and Assessment Reporting Authority (ACARA) F–10 Curriculum. www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/mathematics/curriculum/f-10 (viewed November 2014) www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/science/curriculum/f-10 (viewed November 2014)www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/design-and-technologies/curriculum/f-10 (viewed …
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Report Findings: Qualitative Data
Participating schools were asked to report against the project aims as part of their evaluation. This section provides a summary of their responses and outlines additional benefits of the project.
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How were the progressions developed?
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), in partnership with NSW Department of Education, led the development of national collaborative action to develop the progressions from mid-2016 to the end of 2017. During 2016, version …
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Peg's Creek Primary School
Peg's Creek Primary School is an independent public school, centrally located in the City of Karratha, 1600 km north-west of Perth. The school is a part of the Pilbara Education District and is one of five public primary schools and one Catholic primary …
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Simonds Catholic College (Years 9 and 10)
In the STEM Connections project, Simonds Catholic College focused on improvement of the school environment. Students were asked to design and build a vertical garden. The design brief ensured that Science, Technologies and Mathematics were all well-represented …
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Toowoomba Grammar School
The mathematics coordinator at Toowoomba Grammar led the staff to undertake a change in the way mathematics was taught in the school. The focus was on differentiation of the curriculum to meet the learning needs of the students. The coordinator felt that …
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Yokine Primary School
Yokine Independent Public Primary School is situated ten kilometres from Perth CBD. The school profile has changed significantly over the last seven years with an increased enrolment of students for whom English is an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D).The …
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Baynton West Primary School
Baynton West Primary School is an independent public school in Karratha, Western Australia. At the time of filming the school had close to 600 students in Foundation – Year 7, and 50 staff members. The school strives to provide a rigorous education for …
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St Stephen's School, Duncraig
St Stephen’s School, Duncraig, is situated 15 kilometres north of Perth. At the time of filming, St Stephen’s Duncraig had 548 students, with the Early Years Learning Framework integrated into the pedagogy of the primary school. The general capabilities …
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St Stephen's School, Carramar
At the time of filming St Stephen’s Carramar had 490 students F–6. The school’s emphasis is on developing students, with the curriculum as the platform and context. Both teachers and students are encouraged to take risks in the learning process. Integration …
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The Pilbara Education Region
The Pilbara Education Region is one of eight regions in the Western Australian Department of Education. The headquarters of this education region, the Pilbara Education Regional Office (PERO), is located in Karratha. The PERO staff are committed to the …
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Career education: STEAM learning and creative problem solving
This Illustration of practice demonstrates how Burnie Primary School incorporates career education through the implementation of a Science, Technologies, Engineering, The Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) program, which also provides students with the opportunity …
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Kalinda Primary School
Kalinda Primary School is a government school in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. At the time of filming there were 473 students enrolled, 27 teaching staff and 11 non-teaching staff. Kalinda has an energetic learning environment, and staff continually …
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Brighton Primary School
Brighton Primary School is a large school incorporating a centre for the hearing-impaired. At the time of filming, there were 619 students at the school. The additional language at the school is Auslan. The school’s vision statement is: ‘Engage, imagine, …
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Landsdale Primary School
Lansdale Primary School is situated in the north-eastern suburbs of Perth and at the time of filming had 942 K–7 students. The students come from various cultural backgrounds with 38 per cent having English as an additional language or dialect. Lansdale …
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Hale School
The Hale School took an initiative to assist students to develop strategies to ingrain ways of thinking mathematically into their learning. They took on a focus of problem-based learning and realised, with the implementation of the Australian Curriculum: …
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St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School
The Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre The Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring (MDWg) Language and Culture Centre Kununurra is situated 3,214 km from Perth in far northern Western Australia, at the eastern extremity of the Kimberley. …
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Two-way science at Leonora: investigating the Mamutjitji (antlion) and other invertebrates
Leonora District High School is a Foundation to Year 12 government school located in the remote mining community of Leonora which is 840 kms north-east of Perth in Western Australia on the traditional lands of the Wankatja people. It has an enrolment …
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