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Professional Learning

STAT has professional learning packages and trained facilitators to cover most aspects of the science curriculum. Special focus PL sessions can also be organised if members or member schools request, provided costs are covered and there is sufficient interest. 

For enquiries contact:

Denise Devitt
Principal Education Officer - Science
 Phone: 03 6212 3302
 Mobile: 0409 503 122
 Fax: 03 6212 3320
 Email: denise.devitt@education.tas.gov.au
 

President:  

Jill Reade
Learning Services North/Consultancy
 Phone: 0400 311 760
 Fax: 03 6398 1023
 Email: jillr@netspace.net.au
  

 

PowerPoint Presentations

 

Below are 2 new Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations;

[ CLICK HERE ]

[ CLICK HERE ]

Australian Biodiversity

“Workshop presented at
CONSTAT March 2010”

TSTS Research Investigations

“From UTAS Science Investigations
 workshop March 2010”

If you don't have Microsoft Office installed you can download a free
PowerPoint Viewer Only directly from Microsoft - [ CLICK HERE ]

 

 

Curtin University School of Technology videos

 

[ CLICK HERE ] to view some short videos on specific topics for Year 12 Chemistry students produced by the Curtin University School of Technology. These videos may be a useful resource for you.

Topics covered include:

  • Equilibrium

  • Electrochemistry

  • Bonding and Polarity

  • Intermolecular forces

  • Chemical reactions

  • Organic chemistry

The six topics have been split over 8 videos as some topics required longer explanation.

   

 

 

Risk Assessment Templates

 

Click on either the Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word logos below to download the Risk Assessment Templates;

 

"Risk Assessment for Practical Investigations"

"Risk Assessment for Practical Activities"

 

 

 

Vega Science Trust's Teaching Resources

 

"Instructional science mini-films for teachers"

[ CLICK HERE ]

To view a set of short popular instructional science mini-films explaining such things as how to generate electricity from wind-power, how to make a battery from a potato, what are Bucky Balls? (c60), nanotubes and fullerenes?
   

"Solids, liquids and Gases: videos for Primary Teachers"
[ CLICK HERE ]

To view a very popular set of short videos for the benefit of primary school teachers in terms of thinking about new ways to teach states of matter topics in an interactive manner.
 

NOTE: Vega is a registered UK educational charity working to promote science - if you consider their resources useful, links to their site can only help to further their work.

 

For further information on Professional Learning visit the ASTA website at http://www.asta.edu.au