Workshops for Science Teachers

Creative Science Teaching Using Simple Materials

Some recent CPAS workshops for science teachers (reviewed by Sean Perera)

Forces Workshop for science teachers in the ACT

My students loved it. Like at the workshop, I set up stations around the room and we did all sorts of pressure activities at each station. They had an absolute ball. (Workshop Participant)

Residential workshop for science teachers from Indonesia

We realise now that we don't have to always have sophisticated equipment to teach science. We can use simple materials...The workshop activities have made us more open minded to creativity and broadened the way we think. (Workshop participant)    

Creative science teaching workshop for science teachers in Sri Lanka 

The workshop showed us simple approaches to make science interesting by relating to simple everyday experiences...it will definitely change the way I teach science. (Workshop participant) Read more

Forces Workshop for science teachers in Townsville

I liked the hands on nature of it all. The accessible materials are certainly good for schools and some of them are pretty impressive with what you can do. (Workshop participant)

Creative science teaching workshop for science teachers in Launceston

Sue and Mike gave us material they had developed on using the movie Titanic, as a way of describing buoyancy. I thought it was a really good idea and I liked the way they went about making connections between science and everyday events. (Workshop participant)

Creative science teaching workshop for science teachers in Cessnock

I think that they have been terrific. The concepts were easily demonstrated and you can see it very clearly. It has also given us a lot of ideas, that we can use in the classrooms, because they are simple and use simple materials. (Workshop participant)

Understanding Forces

This special six-hour workshop is designed for middle high school teachers who would like to refresh their own understanding of Newtonian forces and Newton's laws.  Through carefully constructed experiences, teachers are encouraged to discuss ideas about forces from ideas about Newton's Third Law through to drawing free-body diagrams.  Participants also discuss students' ideas with a plethora of hands-on experiences to address these ideas in the classroom. 

The amount of information and knowledge given in this workshop was excellent! (Workshop participant, 2006)

The loads of experiments and their explanations given as a take-away - I loved it! (Workshop participant, 2006)

Fields in Physics

This new workshop is coming soon and deals with gravitational and electromagnetic fields.

Further information & how to enrol for a CPAS Science Teacher Workshop contact:

Mary Hooper
Phone: 02 6125 0498
Fax: 02 6125 8991
E-mail: cpas@anu.edu.au