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Australian Senior Physics Curriculum

Australian Senior Physics Curriculum. Neil Champion Buckley Park College ACARA Writer 14 February 2014 www.Edmodo.com Oz Senior Physics Curriculum 3aj2r8. Design features of the curriculum. Equivalent strands Science understanding Science as a human endeavour Science inquiry skills.

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Australian Senior Physics Curriculum

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  1. Australian Senior Physics Curriculum Neil Champion Buckley Park College ACARA Writer 14 February 2014 www.Edmodo.com Oz Senior Physics Curriculum 3aj2r8

  2. Design features of the curriculum Equivalent strands Science understanding Science as a human endeavour Science inquiry skills

  3. Science Understanding • Key knowledge required for a survey course that begins a student’s engagement with the physics discipline

  4. What do physicists want in schools? Open letter to the President

  5. Science Inquiry Skills • Data driven • Evidence based • Informed by, and informs, theory • Qualitative • Quantitative • Mathematical

  6. Method and measurement:(i) Method • Data • Cause/effect • Representations and models • Algebra and graphs as models • Quantitative relationships • Law • Theory

  7. Method and measurement:(ii) Measurement • SI units • Data types: qualitative and quantitative • Data analysis: raw, derived • Uncertainty and error • Error bars • Carrying uncertainties through calculations

  8. Science as a Human Endeavour • Conceptual • Representational • Communal

  9. Models • Models are central to science because scientists use them to describe, explain, relate and predict phenomena. • Models can be expressed in a range of ways – via words (with language that is commonly metaphorical), images (actual or imagined), mathematics (numerical, algebraic, geometric, graphical), or physical constructions (including some machines). • Models help scientists to frame physical laws and theories, and these laws and theories are also models of the world. • Models are not static – as scientific understanding of concepts or physical data or phenomena evolves, so to do the models scientists use to describe, explain, relate and predict these.

  10. Communal • Collaborative • Local • National • International • Debate and peer review • Conferences, posters, papers, learned journals

  11. Design features of the curriculum Canonical Methodological Narrative structure Continuity Equivalent strands Achievement standards

  12. Design features of the curriculum Canonical The major features of any modern physics curriculum are covered.

  13. Unit 1Thermal, nuclear and electrical physics • Heating processes • Ionising radiation and nuclear reactions • Electrical circuits

  14. Unit 2Linear motion and waves • Linear motion and force • Waves

  15. Unit 3Gravity and electromagnetism • Gravity and motion • Electromagnetism

  16. Unit 4Revolutions in modern physics • Special relativity • Quantum theory • The Standard Model

  17. Design features of the curriculum Methodological Explicit and implicit attention is drawn to the way physics, as a discipline, is undertaken.

  18. Design features of the curriculum Repeated ideas with increasing complexity • Particles • Particles and energy • Energy and waves • Particles, space and time • Particles and forces • Forces and energy • Particles and energy • Forces, energy and fields • Fields and spacetime • Energy, particles and waves • Particles, waves and energy • Particles, waves, energy, force, spacetime …

  19. Design features of the curriculum Narrative structure Key themes of observation, organisation and explanation recur in increasing complexity as the story unfolds.

  20. Design features of the curriculum Continuity Senior physics completes an F-12 physical science curriculum for Australia

  21. Segue from F-10 to Senior The Senior curriculum builds on, and assumes competence in F-10 standards (SU, SHE SIS)

  22. Achievement standards Separate rubrics for Year 11 and Year 12 (5 taxonomical categories) • Physics concepts, models and applications • Physics inquiry skills ACARA Senior Physics Achievement Standards

  23. Examples in context Each Unit is supported by a set of descriptive statements related to the Science as a human endeavour strand: • Speculative • Poorly coupled to Science Understanding • Profound ignorance of current knowledge and methodological issues in related fields

  24. Detailed studies?Unit 1 and Unit 2 • Heating processes • Energy from the nucleus • Ionising radiation and nuclear reactions • Medical physics • Electrical circuits • Sustainable energy resources • Linear motion • Flight • Waves • Sound • Astronomy

  25. Detailed studies?Unit 3 and Unit 4 • Gravity and motion • Materials and structures • Electromagnetism • Further electronics • Special relativity • Synchrotron and applications • Quantum theory • Photonics • Standard Model • Astrophysics

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