===== STEAMPUNKS - FLIPSTER WIKI =====
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  - **[[https://goo.gl/97aAqp|HEAT QUIZ]]**
  - **[[https://goo.gl/forms/2UHbVI5GhL|SOUND QUIZ]]**
  - **[[https://goo.gl/X633vd|ELECTRICITY QUIZ]]**
  - **[[https://goo.gl/forms/H7llGKsB4L|FORCES+MOTION QUIZ]]**
  - **[[http://goo.gl/forms/b6QzLLOAw8|NEUROSCIENCE QUIZ]]**
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  - **[[:teaching:stem:home|TEACHING STEAM]]**
  - **[[:brainbox:home|STEAM PROJECTS]]**
  - **[[:teaching:how-to-teach-science:home|TEACHING SCIENCE]]**
  - **[[:learn:natural-selection:discover:home|PLANTS+ANIMALS]]**
  - **[[:teaching:learning-difficulties:home|LEARNING DIFFICULTIES]]**
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{{:public:cat-sofa-780x420.jpg?780x420|"You looking at me?'}}

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Despite our best efforts, all the evidence shows that most kids go through school holding deep-rooted ideas that bear no relation to our modern understanding about the natural/physical world in which we live.

More than fifty years of research, and millions of data points, show that our k-12 education systems and teaching/text-book resources have failed to remedy this problem. ((Teaching of science in NSW - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l265OGIGKmo)) (([[https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=131403&org=NSF&from=news|National Science Foundation]])) (([[http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm|Judging Books By Their Cover - Richard Feyman]]))

Recent Australian research by Dr Derek Muller (//University of Sydney//) ((How to teach science - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l265OGIGKmo)) suggests that the conventional, explicit teaching of STEM (science) in NSW schools mostly perpetuates and re-enforces fundamental misconceptions about how the world works. ((Dr Derek Muller's PHD thesis - http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/super/theses/PhD(Muller).pdf))

Attending one of our hands-on workshops might help //you// to make a difference.

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