An explicit representational focus for teaching and learning about animals in the environment Tytler, Russell, Haslam, Filocha, Prain, Vaughan and Hubber, Peter 2009, An explicit representational focus for teaching and learning about animals in the environment, Teaching Science, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 21-27. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title An explicit representational focus for teaching and learning about animals in the environment Author(s) Tytler, Russell orcid.org/0000-0003-0161-7240 Haslam, Filocha Prain, Vaughan orcid.org/0000-0001-5832-4727 Hubber, Peter orcid.org/0000-0003-1780-9562 Journal name Teaching Science Volume number 55 Issue number 4 Start page 21 End page 27 Total pages 6 Publisher Australian Science Teachers Association Place of publication Canberra, ACT Publication date 2009-12 ISSN 1449-6313 1839-2946 Summary There has been growing interest in linking the learning of Science with the literacies of Science and representations. Recent attention has been focused on learning theories that emphasise the socio-cultural and situated aspects of learning, and in particular the notion of learning as participation in a discourse community. This paper will describe a learning sequence planned wilh Year 5/6 teachers to study invertebrates in the schoolground environment, but with an additional focus in which students generated and negotiated representations, and discussed the adequacy of these. The paper will present data from video capture of classroom activities, students' work samples, and pre- and post-unit testing, to explore what a representational focus might entail in teaching science, and the role of representations in learning, reasoning and exploring in science. Language eng Field of Research 130212 Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy Socio Economic Objective 930201 Pedagogy HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30021665 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 14 Jan 2010, 15:20:50 EST Mon, 18 Jan 2010, 09:47:57 EST Mon, 18 Jan 2010, 09:51:24 EST Mon, 18 Jan 2010, 09:56:18 EST Mon, 18 Jan 2010, 10:02:00 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 13:49:02 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 13:53:20 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1436 Abstract Views, 4 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 14 Jan 2010, 15:20:47 EST