In this recorded webinar, Andrea Soanes and Lyn Rogers explore how teachers can support students to interpret and make sense of their observations, focusing on how to utilise students’ prior learning and world views whilst also building on their understandings of the nature of science.
Watching the recorded webinar creates an opportunity to engage with some simple activities from the Science Learning Hub, and it discusses how these ideas can be used to enhance students in their making meaning from observations.
This was brilliant – provided a new perspective of how to use these activities.
Teacher
The slideshow and recorded webinar provide ideas and information that will support teachers of any year level to:
- enhance students’ understanding of the differences between observation and inference
- identify and utilise students’ prior knowledge
- build on students’ understandings of the nature of science
- help develop students’ science capabilities
- explore relevant activities on the Science Learning Hub.
Watch the video (above) of this professional development session (you may want to download it) and also see below the index and the slideshow presentation.
Index
| Topic | PowerPoint slide number(s) | Video timecode |
| Webinar purpose | 1-2 | 00:00 |
| Recap of last webinar ‘Developing an eagle eye’ | 3–6 | 01:34 |
| Discussing observation activities | 7 | 03:38 |
| Inference versus observation activity | 8–9 | 07:48 |
| Enhancing teaching and learning | 10 | 12:11 |
| Tangram activity and video | 11 | 13:16 |
| Discussing the use of optical illusions | 12–13 | 17:48 |
| Moving into investigation | 14 | 23:31 |
| Useful activities | 15–16 | 27:06 |
| Social media links, thanks and comments | 17–18 | 29:36 |
Thanks, great inspirations.
Teacher
Activity ideas
These activities are covered in the webinar:
The video featured in the webinar is Phenomenally great information.
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