Course: STEM Teaching: Teaching Science Beyond The Boundaries

In this film, we hear Peter Fairhurst compare the interdisciplinary approach taken in the Prenatal Ultrasound teaching unit with what students typically learn by studying physics in school beyond the …

Creating the conditions for interdisciplinary work What are the research findings? This article describes characteristics that have been found to help make interdisciplinary teaching successful. The observations are derived from …

Each Science Beyond the Boundaries teaching unit takes a look at one contemporary issue surrounding an application of science. This article explores how one issue can be taught using an …

In this film, Lucy Atkinson explains how Science Beyond the Boundaries units have been structured around the 5E model of instruction. She first describes each of the five phases of …

From pandemics to pollution, people and the planet face many complex problems. These need to be placed in their social, political and economic reality to be understood. To do that …

In school science lessons there is usually a strong focus on developing understanding of scientific concepts and competencies. In real life, however, science takes place in a social and cultural …

The quotations below relate to ‘science beyond the boundaries’ in different ways. Which statement resonates with you? Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding …

In this film, Lucy Atkinson explains why an interdisciplinary approach is important for maximising the public good achieved from applications of science and in answering some of the most challenging …