Science Education News (SEN) Journal 2018 Science Education News Volume 67 Number 1 | Page 3

CONTENTS SEN Science Education News ASSOCIATION NEWS President’s Message........................................................................................... 4 Welcome your 2018 STANSW Council Members............................................... 6 Volume 67 Number 1 2018 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES Inc. Quarterly Issues Annual General Meeting.................................................................................... 10 REPORTS A Message From Australian Institute of Physics NSW Branch.......................... 12 2018 STANSW Young Scientist Coordinator..................................................... 15 STEM-X Academy............................................................................................. 16 STEM-X Academy – from a 2016 alumnus........................................................ 18 ARTICLES EDITOR George Pinniger Watching the pendulum swing: changes in the NSW physics curriculum and consequences for the discipline.............................................. 20 EDITORIAL TEAM The Meta Lesson Plan: Helping Students construct Cognitive Memories of their Classroom Learning.............................................................................. 25 Margaret Shepherd DESKTOP PUBLISHER Claire McCabe What’s Australia made of? Geologically, it Depends on the State you’re In................................................ 35 Dinosaurs could have avoided mass extinction if the killer asteroid had landed almost anywhere else.................................................................... 38 Reflections of the STEM-X Academy For 2018................................................. 40 STEM-X Academy, 2018; An Exhilarating, Enlightening X-perience!............... 43 Lesson / Activity: Seeds that Fly........................................................................ 47 Email: [email protected] Web site: http://www.stansw.asn.au Play-based learning can set your child up for success at school and beyond....................................................................................................... 50 The value of Silence in Lower-level Classes..................................................... 52 IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM 7–12 The opinions expressed in this Learning Across the Curriculum: Is it important?.............................................. 53 journal are those of the authors and do not The WRX: A different model of flipped learning for the new Senior Chemistry curriculum............................................................................. 55 necessarily represent those of STANSW or the Editors of SEN. © Copyright 2018 by STANSW All rights reserved. ISSN 0048 9603 IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM K–6 Just Because it Looks like Water, Doesn’t Mean it Is! ...................................... 57 Early bird registration now open for the National (K-12) Science Conferene – CONASTA67 Sydney, 8-11 July ................................................. 59 3 SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL NEWS VOL 67 NO 1