<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Greetings again Edward,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have reread my e-post to you and CATALIST on suggestions how to successfully teach the Australian Science Curriculum (Year 9 and Year 10) simultaneously to Year 9 students and Year 10 students in the same science classroom with the same contact time. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You will now realise from your first Year of teaching in 2015 that trying to simultaneously teach a completely differentiated Year 9 and Year 10 Australian Science curriculum in the same science classroom at the same time is absolutely impossible/unachievable.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will now elaborate my suggestions for trying to ‘successfully' teach Australian Science to a combined class of Year 9 and Year 10 students in the same classroom with the same contact time..</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My suggestion is that you download and analyse the key science concepts targeted in my Australian Science (Year 9 and Year 10) interactive PDF curriculum modules according to my School Term-based program templates to see which concepts are common.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My Australian Science (Year Levels 7 to 10) curriculum PDF modules are structured as a SPIRAL curriculum, where possible, and the modules explicitly identify for both the teacher and student the key science concepts as Understanding Outcome Statements.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hopefully you and your science students have access ACCORDING TO NEED to a RELIABLE network of student personal computers together with a RELIABLE computer connected Interactive Whiteboard so that you can display to whole of class my modules.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would then present to your 9/10 students as a whole class group using the Interactive White Board FIRSTLY my Year 9 module and then SECONDLY my Year 10 module targeting those key science concepts common to both the Year 9 and Year 10 curriculums.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My Australian Science (Year Levels 7 to 10) PDF curriculum modules explicitly promote <b class="">Science Conceptual Change Learning </b>so<b class=""> </b>the student can more <b class="">efficiently</b> and <b class="">effectively</b> construct understanding of targeted key science concepts better than from trying to passively learn from commercial science textbooks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Edward in conjunction with <b class="">C</b>omputer/whiteboard <b class="">A</b>ssisted <b class="">L</b>earning, I would explain and organise and show your combined class of Year 9/10 science students how structured <b class="">Peer Tutoring</b> in a supportive classroom learning environment can be used to support students who need more time to construct a satisfactory understanding of the targeted key science concepts common to both the Year 9/10 curriculums.</div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="">According to school/system requirements, I would ONLY differentiate <b class="">Assessment </b>by administering separate tests, which may contain common tasks, to your Year 9 and Year 10 science students for the Semester reporting of your student's science achievement.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Wishes,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mike McGarry</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>