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Given our background in providing flipped classroom physics resources, and our local community of highly experienced flipping teachers, the meriSTEM team decided to host a workshop in October last year.
We held a short Q&A with expert flippers, then moved on to a problem solving exercise, seeding an expert at each table. In the online event registration, we had asked teachers to pose questions they had about flipping, so we cheekily turned those...

Dr Vaishali Adya at meriSTEM PD
Owing to meriSTEM’s beginnings, our office is located within the Department of Quantum Science at ANU in Canberra. We know we’re lucky to have tearoom chats every day with professors and students of some fascinating science projects, and we wanted to...

Because using the flipped classroom approach can be different for students, more than ever it is important to be explicit about the whys, hows and how-tos. Evidence for Learning is an Australian education research group and they have 7 recommendations...

Inquiry in science classrooms: Rhetoric or reality? (Goodrum, 2006)
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While there’s been plenty of talk about science inquiry learning for decades, there has been limited evidence of it eventuating*. A pilot program called the Collaborative Australian Secondary Science Program (CASSP) and a study into its impact on student...