The NSW Syllabus and Citizen Science - Stage 4 Curriculum mapping

This document is a teacher resource, aimed to map citizen science projects to the Australian curriculum and provide information that will accompany teachers in their citizen science journey in the classroom. 

We have handpicked a range of citizen science projects which vary in nature and scope and aligned these to the four ‘knowledge and understanding’ themes of the NSW syllabus: Physical World, Earth and Space, Living World and Chemical World. We also provide an overview of citizen science contributions to skill development across all Working Scientifically processes and an overview of citizen science potential for learning across the curriculum.

Learning By Doing (LBD) is a research project led by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from The University of Sydney and Taronga Conservation Society Australia. We are passionate about citizen science and its benefits for education and are researching ways to bring citizen science into schools. LBD aims to inform efforts to embed citizen science into the Australian Science Curriculum and will support its goal ‘to develop an understanding of important science concepts and processes, the practices used to develop scientific knowledge, of science’s contribution to our culture and society, and its applications in our lives.’

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LBD is constantly trying to improve. If you’ve downloaded or used one of the resources designed by LBD, we would be grateful to receive your feedback through the following link – https://forms.gle/nMvnqkMcrrvMmUdx9