Dr Emma Pearson, Lucas’ mum, visited us to speak about all things science. She described her fascination with the field (a self-confessed nerd) and she how she now works at Curtin University, researching and lecturing. She has written and contributed to research papers. Her specific field is organic chemistry. Dr Emma spoke about her career in the lab and how complex it can be. It was an interesting start to the conversation when she asked boys to share of any scientists they knew. This tied in with our prior knowledge as we had previously studied a big unit on science. Again, boys primarily mentioned male scientists, as historically, this was the case, a male dominated industry. Dr Pearson went on to explain that we need to look at science from all different perspectives as historically, we haven't looked at the indigenous perspective/knowledge, ancient Indians, Asian scientists etc. This was worthy part of science to tap into. We further explained to the boys that this was like our NAIDOC week challenge on Minecraft, where we have to learn about the Indigenous techniques for back burning, medicine and fishing techniques and weave them in with our Western perspectives.
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AuthorsY5 students at Scotch College, Perth Archives
November 2020
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