Science talk 2007: Paul Willis

Primary KLA:
Science and Technology
Secondary KLA:
Science
Educational levels:
Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

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A master class with Dr Paul Willis, a science journalist and palaeontologist specialising in fossil crocodiles. Paul talks to a Year 2 group about dinosaurs, their size and how you can find evidence about them. Students ask Paul some very interesting questions! Then, a biology student from Richmond High School talks to Paul about palaeontology and what it's like to be a science journalist.

NSW syllabus outcomes

(SC4-14LW) relates the structure and function of living things to their classification, survival and reproduction

Australian curriculum content descriptions

(ACSSU043) Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment

(ACSSU111) There are differences within and between groups of organisms; classification helps organise this diversity

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Resource type:
Interactive Resource
ScOT topics:
Fossils, Dinosaurs, Journalism
File type:
text/html
Language/s:
en-AU
Author:
State of NSW, Department of Education
Publisher:
State of NSW, Department of Education
Date created:
Monday, 20 October 2008

Resource ID: e6bf62a1-b5b6-4ffc-ab36-29f093301bd9