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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. © Copyright 2019 by STANSW All rights reserved. ISSN 0048 9603 3 SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL NEWS VOL 68 NO 3