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Direct linkRebecca R. Lesnefsky; Troy D. Sadler; David Fortus – Research in Science Education, 2025
In response to the growing emphasis on addressing global socio-scientific issues like climate change and viral pandemics in K-12 education, we designed three socio-scientific units for middle school science. We call this curriculum Grand Challenges (GC). The GC curriculum shifts from traditional methods to a focus on socio-scientific issues that…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Innovation, Secondary School Science
Lowe, Beverly; Appleton, Ken – Research in Science Education, 2015
Queensland schools are currently teaching with the first National Curriculum for Australia. This new curriculum was one of a number of political responses to address the recurring low scores in literacy, mathematics, and science that continue to hold Australia in poor international rankings. Teachers have spent 2 years getting to know the new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Curriculum, National Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation
