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Newsletter of the Science Teachers’ Association of Victoria Inc.
Science Teachers’ Association of Victoria Inc.Patron: Dr Barry Jones, AO, FAA, FAHA, FTSE, FASSA, FRSA, FRSN, FRSV, FACE ABN 59 004 145 329 • ISSN 0311-0605 Registered by Australia Post - Print Post Publication No. PP 342676/0050Member of Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA)
Vol 33 No 4 May 2018
Conferences and Events The STAV event calendar which includes all PD/conferences and science activities for the year is available on the STAV website: www.stav.org.au
Science Talent Search - Register Now 2018 theme is ‘Australian Game Changers and Change Makers’ Online entry registration is now open. www.sciencevictoria.com.au/sts/regInf.html
Semester 1 2018 Trial Exams Late orders will be accepted You can order now for delivery into schools by 1 May 2018 www.sciencevictoria.com.au/stavpublishing/trialExams.html
STAV Labtech Conference 2018 - Register Now Friday 8 June 2018 at Quantum Victoria 2018 theme is: Applications of STEM in the Science Classroom Register now at www.sciencevictoria.com.au/labtech/LabtechConference.htm
Psychology Teachers Workshop 2018 - Register Now Thursday 7 June at the Melbourne Museum Further details page 8.
STAVCON 2018 Friday 30 November 2018 at La Trobe University Theme is: Game Changers and Change Makers Call for Presenters Now Open www.sciencevictoria.com.au/gateway/General_Papers.php
National Science Week 2018 11 - 19 August 2018 2018 theme is: Game Changers and Change Makers
Website LinksFor the latest events and conference information go to STAV’s website: www.sciencevictoria.com.au
For information about the Association or science activities go to: www.stav.org.au
Contents
2 STAV contacts
3 President’s Report
4 STS Report
5 Science Week
5 STS dates
5 STAV Membership
6 Conference information
12 STAV important dates
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Join STAV on Twitter
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STAV CouncilSoula BennettPresident Quantum Victoria [email protected]
Joanna AlexanderVice President and Treasurer Blackburn Secondary College [email protected]
Alexandra AbelaVice President Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School [email protected]
Michael RosenbrockCommittee Secretary Wodonga Senior Secondary College [email protected]
Jacinta GreerRuyton Girls School STAV Psychology Network Leader [email protected]
Yuvadee PatchonQuantum Victoria Lab Tech Representative [email protected]
Fiona TrapaniMercy Catholic College, Coburg [email protected]
STS ManagementJosie CrisaraAitken [email protected]
Jennifer CutriMonash [email protected]
Leonie Lang Science Educator [email protected]
Miranda McKellarLa Trobe University [email protected]
David Trotter c/- [email protected]
STAV Journal EditorsLabtalk Managing Editor [email protected]
Let’s Find Out Peter Hope [email protected]
STAV Business CentreAnne HeardReceptionistPhone: 9385 [email protected]
Accounts OfficerPhone: 9385 [email protected]
STAV PublishingPhone: 9385 [email protected]
Publications Phone: 9385 [email protected]
Annette McKennaAdministration Manager Phone: 9385 3904 [email protected]
STAV welcomes Vince Conserva as Events Coordinator for STAV [email protected]
Science VictoriaScience Victoria hosts professional development activities on behalf of the Science Teachers’ Association of Victoria Inc. (STAV)
STAV Contacts
Contact enquiries
?For enquiries about Contact newsletter including advertising opportunities please contact the STAV Publications Officer phone: (03) 9385 3903 or email: [email protected]
Contact newsletter is available online as a PDF. Please ensure a current email address is on file at STAV so you will receive your link to the newsletter.
Life MembersDavid CohenRod FawnsDick Gunstone
Gretta WilkinsonMark LearmonthDavid Trotter
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President’s ReportPlease ensure that you visit our website for upcoming conferences/workshops for programs and registration forms
1. Trial Exam orders for Semester 1 are have processed will be distributed to schools shortly. Late orders can still be placed. Please place your order by visiting the following link:
http://www.sciencevictoria.com.au/stavpublishing/documents/OrderFormSemester12018.interactive.pdf
2. VCE Psychology Teachers Workshop, Thursday June 7th Museum Victoria.
For program details and to register please visit:
http://www.sciencevictoria.com.au/documents/PsychWorkshop2018_001.pdf
3. Lab Tech Conference, Friday 8th June, Quantum Victoria – ‘Applications of STEM in the Science Classroom’.
For program details and to register, please visit:
http://www.sciencevictoria.com.au/labtech/documents/Labtech2018_Program_000.pdf
4. STAV Science Leaders’ Conference, Friday 27th July Quantum Victoria.
5. STS Registrations now open! This year’s theme is: ‘Australian Game Changers and Change Makers’.
http://www.sciencevictoria.com.au/sts/index.html
Updates on all of the above will be posted via our social networks and on our website.
Soula Bennett
STAV President
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Science Talent Search 20182018 Theme: Australian Game Changers and Change Makers
Dates for 2018:
Online entry registration opens - Monday 26 February
Entry registration closes - Monday 28 May
Schools Pack 1 - 12 June
Actual entries to STAV House - 19 & 20 July
Judging Day - Saturday 4 August
Schools Pack 2 - 20 August (email correspondence)
Schools Pack 3 - 8 October
Exhibition and Presentation Day - 29 October
Check the Science Talent Search website for information about the competition www.sciencevictoria.com.au/sts
Science Talent Search Report The online registration system for the Science Talent Search closes permanently on Monday 28th May.
You will receive confirmation of your entries along with face sheets and entry labels for
judging. These need to be filled in, signed and attached to each project prior to submission. You will be invoiced on the data in the system on the final closing date May 28th. You cannot withdraw entries after this date – if you choose not to submit, you still need to pay the entry fee.
The system will not reopen for corrections – you need to check your own data online before the closing date. You can access summary data via the ‘view entries’ button and if you wish you can print the data for hardcopy checking. Any requests for changes after the system closes permanently on May 28th will incur a $10 per student administrative fee, so please check your data carefully.
Please also check your email regularly because most correspondence will be by email.
Leonie Lang,
STS Management
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66th Science Talent Search
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Diamond Sponsors of Science Talent Search
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STAV MembershipSTAV Individual Membership fees:Individual Primary $125 Individual Secondary $140 Individual both Primary/Secondary $175 Laboratory Technicians $105The subscription of a member ceases to be effective if payment is not received prior to or on the date of renewal, as a result, membership and all rights pertaining thereto will lapse. Upon payment of all arrears, membership will resume from the date of payment.
New MembersWelcome to the following new individual members of STAV:Michelle Ryan
National Science Week 2018
11 to 19 August 2018Theme: Game Changers and Change Makers
More information at www.scienceweek.net.au/
BRAIN BREAK MORNING TEA
Science decorated biscuitsBrain Breaks can be a quiz, group activities or a few quick science demonstrations – anything you want them to be. It’s a chance to stop and reflect on the science in your world.In past years we’ve had more than 600 workplaces all around the country celebrate National Science Week in this way.When you hold a Brain Break we’d love to hear from you or share a photo – get in touch on Twitter via #brainbreak and #scienceweek or on Facebook.Registration to receive a pack is open untill 17 July, 2018.https://www.scienceweek.net.au/brainbreak/
How to join STAVDownload a form from our website www.stav.org.au/html/membership.htmlYou can also join online from this site.Alternatively, contact the STAV office for more information: 03 9385 3999
Labtech listThe Labtech list has been set up by STAV as a discussion forum where Laboratory Technicians can exchange information, share ideas and seek advice.We ask science coordinators to encourage their Laboratory Technicians to become a member of Labtech and participate in the discussion group.It is free to join. Go to the Science Victoria website for more information: www.sciencevictoria.com.au/labtech.html
Science Drama AwardsWe look forward to receiving entries from interested schools in 2018.
STAV Council
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For all conference/PD information including programs and online registration check the Science Victoria website approximately 6 – 8 weeks prior to each conference: www.sciencevictoria.com.au/conferences.html
Contact the STAV business centre: Phone: 9385 3999 or email: [email protected]
Labtech Conference 2018Friday 8 June 2018 at Quantum Victoria Theme is: Applications of STEM in the Science Classroom Conference ratesDelegate .....................................................................$126
Register Now www.sciencevictoria.com.au/labtech/LabtechConference.htm
STAV Psychology Teachers Workshop 2018Thursday 7 June 2018 at the Melbourne Museum Register Now www.sciencevictoria.com.au/conferences.html
Science Leaders’ Conference 2018Friday 27 July 2018 at Quantum Victoria
STAV STEM Conference 2018Friday 31 August 2018 at Quantum Victoria
STAVCON 2018Friday 30 November 2018 at La Trobe University Theme is: Game Changers and Change Makers.
Further details at: www.sciencevictoria.com.au/STAVCON.html
Call for sessions is now open www.sciencevictoria.com.au/gateway/General_Papers.php
VCE Conference Series 2019VCE Biology – Tuesday 12 February 2019
VCE Chemistry – Wednesday 13 February 2019
VCE Physics – Friday 15 February 2019
Upcoming Conferences – dates & rates
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Program1:30-2:15pm - Meet and Greet Light afternoon refreshments provided
2:20-3:00pm - VCAA Science Manager (Maria James) Key Science Skills and Higher Order Thinking Skills in Exams
3:00-3:55pm - Teacher Workshops: 1. Not another revision sheet: Kahli Symons, Yavneh College
Tied of handing out the same old revision sheets which often gets placed in the trash. This session will be a hands-on workshop where you will get to trial a number of interactive ways to run revision in the Psychology classroom
2. Revision in a digital classroom: Mel Vecchio, Melbourne Grammar School Save time and paper, in this session you will get to explore a range of different online tools to aid in revision and other teacher hacks. Please bring a device to the session, either a computer, a tablet or your phone is fine. Internet access will be available on the day.
4:00-4:10pm – Mind Exhibition IntroductionIntroduction from the Melbourne Museum Program coordinator (Elke Barczak) and Jacinta Greer (STAV councillor).
4:10-4:30pm – Mind Exhibition Guided Trail (sample student excursion with the new trail). In The Mind: Enter the Labyrinth exhibition, VCE psychology students can undertake curriculum-linked enquiries designed to provoke deeper learning. Students review their findings, and consider appropriate tools to communicate and share their new understanding.A teacher resource for each unit of VCE Psychology provides a range of topics for your students to explore, as well as suggested approaches to a class visit to The Mind.
2018 STAV Psychology Teachers Workshop
Thursday 7 June 2018
at the Melbourne Museum,
11 Nicholson St, Carlton VIC 3053
From 1.30pm till 4.30pm, includes light refreshments
Registration is $35.
Register by Friday 1 June 2018
Register hereFull registration details including form
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Essential science skillsA toolbox for the middle yearsEssential science skills is a 126-page black line masters book for use with years 5 – 7.Developing science skills and knowing how to apply them is an essential part of learning about science. Science skills such as communicate, investigate, use ICT, use scientific knowledge and many more are presented as student handout sheets. These are complemented with classroom strategies for use by the teacher and student skill builder worksheets – ready for photocopying and instant use. Student skill builders provide usable examples of how the classroom strategies can be implemented; they demonstrate how to explicitly teach the strategies and provide students with many opportunities to use them. A series of matrices show links with VELS and how the skills and classroom strategies are linked.This book was produced by the Maroondah/Nunawading cluster.Price$44.90 Members/subscribers$46.90 Non-members Plus Postage & Handling $15.00For further information about this product contact:STAV Publishing • Telephone (03) 9385 3999 • Email: [email protected]
Do you want to sell a science related product or promote a science event?
Advertising is available in STAV Publications which are distributed to science teachers and organisations throughout Victoria.
STAV has 3 publications:
• CONTACT - monthly newsletter (email only) • Let’s Find Out - primary science journal • LabTalk - secondary science journal
You can book an advert. Adverts can be quarter, half or full page adverts. You can also send PDF documents that can be added to Contact as insert style advertising.
For further information regarding advertising bookings, rates and timelines,
please contact the STAV on (03) 9385 3999 or
email: [email protected]
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NEWBOOK
Forceful ExperiencesColouring Newton’s Laws of Motion
By Christina Hart
This resource, for teachers and students of general science at the junior high school level, introduces Newton's Laws of motion at a qualitative level. 'Forceful Experiences' takes students' experiences of motion as a starting point, and guides them to construct a more powerful framework for understanding their everyday world. The approach also provides a secure foundation for those students who will go on to study physics at a more advanced, mathematical level. Features include: Short summaries of the main conceptual points are provided at the end of each chapter. There are frequent opportunities for students to 'Pause for thought' and engage with the ideas they have encountered. These can be set as homework activities and used for small group discussions. At strategic points students are challenged to demonstrate what they have learned. Teachers can use these tasks as a basis for formative and/or summative assessment. An accompanying web page provides supporting materials for teachers and students.
Price: $15.00 plus $15.00 postage & handling
To order: email [email protected]
STAV Publishing2018 Trial exam
papers and solutionsPlease note that there will be a small increase in the cost for the 2018 STAV Publishing Trial Exam papers and solutions.
STAV Publishing has endeavoured to keep the costs down as much as possible but due to increased printing/production costs it has been necessary to increase the cost.
The 2018 prices will be as follows:Unit 1 Paper $8.00 per paper Unit 1 Solutions $6.00 per solution Unit 2 Paper $8.00 per paper Unit 2 Solutions $6.00 per solution Unit 3 Paper $8.00 per paper Unit 3 Solutions $6.00 per solution Unit 3&4 Paper $10.00 per paper Unit 3&4 Solutions $7.00 per solution
STAV Publishing looks forward to continuing to provide high quality affordable trial exams to your school.
VCE Trial exam papersSTAV Publishing produces VCE trial exams for:
Units 1, 2 & 3 Unit 3 & 4 combinedPhysics PhysicsChemistry ChemistryBiology BiologyPsychology PsychologyCosts CostsPapers $8.00; Papers $10.00; Solutions $6.00 Solutions $7.00
Plus postage and handling.How to orderDownload an order form at: www.sciencevictoria.com.au/stavpublishing/trialExams.htmlorSTAV Publishing Phone: 03 9385 3999 Fax: 03 9386 6722 Email: [email protected] Trial Exams are also available.
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STAV Labtech Conference 2018“Applications of STEM in the Science Classroom”
Friday 8 June 2018
Quantum Victoria, 235 Kingsbury Drive, Macleod West.
Many sessions are available including
Keynote What goes around may lead somewhere else: exploring the past through science and mathematics presented by
Dr Christopher Davey, Executive Director - Australian Institute of Archaeology
• Designing Circuits In New Ways presented by John Pearce, Deakin University
• Rocking the Context of Plate Tectonics presented by Dr Leslie Almberg, TESEP
• Beginning Lab Managers presented by Dale Carroll, Geelong College
• 21st Century Skills: Coding with Arduinos presented by Joel Willis, Quantum Victoria
• Awakening the Giant Within: Labtechs in STEM presented by
Jamie Astill, Sirius College and Ray Harvey, Cider House
Full session information and registration details at www.sciencevictoria.com.au/labtech/LabtechConference.htm
For further informationContact the STAV Business Centre
PO Box 109 COBURG VIC 3058Ph: (03) 9385 3999 Fax: (03) 9386 6722
Email: [email protected]: www.sciencevictoria.com.au
Contact STAVPhone: (03) 9385 3999 • Fax: (03) 9386 6722Email: [email protected] • Website: www.stav.org.auAddress: PO Box 109, Coburg VIC 3058 • 5 Munro Street Coburg, VIC 3058
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Science Teachers’ Association of Victoria Inc.
‘Advancing Science Education’
STAV Goals è Establish and maintain both financial and intellectual independence
è Represent the collective voice of science educators in Victoria
è Influence policy formulation in matters relating to Science Education
è Support and maintain regional special interest groups within STAV
è Provide a range of resources and services to support science educators
è Provide for and encourage student participation in a range of challenging science activities
è Promote the importance of Science Education to the community
è Recognise significant contributions by STAV members to Science Education.
Contact May 2018
Contact Advertising DeadlinesFebruary 25 January 2018March 27 February 2018April 27 March 2018May 1 May 2018June 5 June 2018July 26 June 2018August 25 July 2018
September 31 August 2018October 27 September 2018November 25 October 2018December 30 November 2018
For more advertising details go to www.stav.org.au/html/advertising.html