Processing Investigations – explaining and publishing Level 2

Demonstrate your learning

Demonstrate your learning

  • Explicitly teach a lesson about the metalanguage of science in which terms are represented for a variety of audiences.

  • View a selection of multimedia resources such as the ABC – Bernie’s Basics. The same information is represented as a video (Fundamentals Hotter than Hot1 from Catalyst on 18/02/2010 and in text form You’re hot or you’re not2). Compare the ways of representing the information with your class.

  • Conduct peer evaluation of students’ presentations so as to help establish criteria that distinguish attempts to address different audiences.

Links

  1. http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2836773.htm
  2. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/03/16/2840402.htm