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CONTENTS
SEN
Science Education News
ASSOCIATION NEWS
President’s Message........................................................................................... 4
Association News................................................................................................ 5
Volume 68 Number 3 2019
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE
TEACHERS’
ASSOCIATION OF
NEW SOUTH WALES Inc.
Quarterly Issues
MEDIA RELEASE................................................................................................. 6
ARTICLES
Stimulus Material for depth studies, courtesy of
Macquarie University........................................................................................... 7
Incorporating Digital and Creative Technologies within
Chemistry: Welcome to ChemSketch................................................................ 12
An Online Climate Model to facilitate Depth-studies and
Science Extension............................................................................................. 18
EDITOR Mathematics of A Freely-hanging Slinky Spring............................................... 23
George Pinniger Teaching Science in Primary Schools, workshop dates .................................. 28
EDITORIAL TEAM
Margaret Shepherd
Astronomy from the Ground up – Parkes, 24th–26th May, 2019...................... 29
How Earth’s Continents became twisted and contorted over
millions of years................................................................................................. 32
Micro-scale precipitation titration...................................................................... 35
DESKTOP PUBLISHER
Claire McCabe
Email: [email protected]
Web site: http://www.stansw.asn.au
Understanding and Calculating the Heat Capacity of Solutions....................... 37
Climate Change confuses Flowering Trees...................................................... 39
A giant species of Trilobite inhabited Australian waters half a
billion years ago................................................................................................ 43
Finding a Mentor for Your Science Extension Student...................................... 46
The first known case of Eggs plus Live Birth from One Pregnancy
in a tiny Lizard................................................................................................... 47
IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM 7–12
The opinions expressed in this
Year 7 Practical Skills for Inquiry Learning – Part 3.......................................... 50
journal are those of the authors and do not
necessarily represent those of STANSW or
STANSW HSC Science Advantage 2019.......................................................... 56
the Editors of SEN.
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by STANSW
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