School Education Programs 2009
Swinburne's Faculty of Life and Social Sciences (FLSS) offers a range of innovative workshops that link directly with the secondary school and VCE curriculum. Designed to enrich and extend learning opportunities for secondary school students and their teachers, FLSS workshops cover a range of topics including psychology, medical physics and biology. These programs provide high school students with skills development and hands-on learning experiences outside their own classroom.
Teachers are invited to register their interest in these programs now.
Psychology
Unit 3 - VCE Psychology: The Role of the Nervous System in Determining Behaviour Workshop
Date: Monday 16 February - Friday 20 February, 2009
Time: 10.00am - 12.00pm or 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Cost: $16.50 per student
Max Students: 20 per session
The workshop introduces students to three separate areas:
- Practical measurements that illustrate autonomic responses. The autonomic system is an indicator of the arousal state of the person. The measurements may include heart rate changes, skin responses, pupillary responses, and the polygraph (lie detector).
- Perception and its processes. The way in which we perceive the world is influenced strongly by what we see (or what we think we see). Students will explore mirror writing, visual illusions, and the Electro-OculoGram (EOG) as ways of evaluating perception.
- Consciousness and its measurement. Students will be introduced to the EEG electrodes, the recording sites, and how it is recorded. Previously recorded data will be provided for analysis.
Unit 3 - VCE Psychology: Imaging the Brain Lecture
Date: Wednesday 6 May 2009
Time: 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Cost: FREE
Max Students: 110
Imaging techniques have vastly expanded our knowledge and understanding of the structure and function of the central nervous system.
In this lecture, students will explore innovative technologies that divulge so much about human brain activity. Electroencepholograph (EEG), Computerised Tomography (CT), Position Emission Topography (PET), Magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI) and Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) will be covered. Students will find out the limitation in their use for studying the brain, how these imaging techniques are used in clinical and research situations and the role these innovative technologies have in the future.
Unit 3 - Psychology: States of Consciousness: Sleep Lecture
Date: Wednesday 6 May 2009
Time: 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Cost: FREE
Max Students: 110
Sleep is a special state of consciousness, in which we spend approximately on third of our lives. Find out what really happens while we sleep, and the workings of a sleep laboratory. Discover how sleep is measured, classification of sleep states, sleep disorders and what they mean and new research directions in sleep and fatigue
Psychology Awards Day - Lectures & Workshops (All Day)
Date: Early July
Swinburne offers an awards day program for high-achieving psychology students during the mid-year break. Students are selected by their VCE Psychology teachers to take part in this one day program which is designed to enrich the study of Psychology in Year 12 and expose students to aspects of tertiary studies in Psychology. This hand-on program is delivered by academic staff and students currently studying in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences.
The Awards Day will include the following sessions for students:
- Being a professional psychologist
- Cognitive processes in emotional responses
- Electrophysiological measures
- EEGs
- Psychophysics
Year 12 VCE Psychology teachers are requested to inform their students of this excellent
opportunity and select suitable students to participate in the program.
Criteria for School Selection of Students:
- Achieving at a high level in their VCE Psychology studies
- Strongly interested in a career in Psychology
- Motivated to explore extension and enrichment opportunities.
Physics
Unit 1 - VCE Physics: Medical Physics
Date: Monday 1 June 2009 - Friday 5th June 2009
Time: 9.00am - 12.00pm and 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Cost: $16.50 per student
Max Students: 20 per session
This hands-on workshop explores the use of Imaging Technologies in Medical Physics and allows VCE students access to equipment and demonstrations that would not be available in a school laboratory. The program may include the use of: Endoscopes, Ultrasound Imaging, Ultrasound Doppler, Radiation Measurement, PET Simulation, X-Ray Densiometry and Laser Tissue Perfusion. A student booklet is provided with the program.
Biology
Unit 4 - VCE Biology: Continuity and change
Date: Monday 27 July 2009 - Friday 31 July 2009
Time: 9.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm - 4.30pm
Cost: $19.80 per student
Max Students: 25 per session
This workshop program completes the practical work associated with the first two School Assessed Coursework items in Outcome 1, Unit 4 VCE Biology. This includes:
- Extraction of DNA from cells
- An exploration of DNA structure and its role in transcription and translation
- A practical activity investigating the manipulation of DNA - analysis of DNA using restriction enzymes and gel electrophoresis.
This approach allows a three-way perspective to DNA: its location and extraction from cells, its structure and role, and finally how it can be manipulated. In addition, first-hand data will be supplied relevant to an investigation of Mendelian patterns of inheritance in plants. This will enable students to complete this activity back at school. A student workbook is provided for all activities.
Register your interest for the 2009 programs NOW!
Other Enquiries
Leah Cattanach
Telephone: (03) 9214 5661
Email: lcattanach@swin.edu.au
