Science Education News (SEN) Journal 2018 Science Education News Volume 67 Number 2 | Page 3
CONTENTS
SEN
Science Education News
ASSOCIATION NEWS
President’s Message........................................................................................... 4
STANSW ‘BEEINS’ Conference, 2018 Report..................................................... 5
Volume 67 Number 2 2018 STANSW Chemistry Conference, 2018 Report................................................... 8
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE STANSW ‘Meet the Markers’ 2018 Report........................................................ 11
TEACHERS’
ASSOCIATION OF
NEW SOUTH WALES Inc.
Quarterly Issues
REPORTS
STANSW Young Scientist Awards 2018............................................................ 14
ARTICLES
STEM down under students are on top of the world......................................... 16
EDITOR
George Pinniger
EDITORIAL TEAM
Margaret Shepherd
Celebrating the Significance and Relevance of STEAM at the
Australian Museum............................................................................................ 25
Love them or Hate them, Cane Toads are Here to Stay................................... 27
The Future of NAPLAN – both views................................................................. 32
Let’s Abandon NAPLAN – We can do Better!................................................... 33
Five Things We Wouldn’t Know Without NAPLAN............................................. 35
DESKTOP PUBLISHER
Claire McCabe
The Skeleton in the Closet................................................................................. 38
Trouble in Paradise: Eruptions from Kīlauea Volcano place the
Hawaiian island on Red Alert............................................................................ 39
Action to Limit the Outcomes of Human-induced Climate Change.................. 43
Email: [email protected] Solar PV and Wind are on track to Replace all Coal, Oil and Gas
within Two Decades.......................................................................................... 44
Web site: http://www.stansw.asn.au The Nature of Knowledge.................................................................................. 46
Acting out their Age, or Something Worse? Dealing with Difficult
Behaviour in Children........................................................................................ 53
The opinions expressed in this
journal are those of the authors and do not
necessarily represent those of STANSW or
the Editors of SEN.
IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM 7–12
Using Cultures of Thinking to Promote an Inquiry-based
Approach in Stage-4 Geology........................................................................... 47
High School Students helping Primary Students with Science......................... 52
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