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Dr Cutter-Mackenzie has been contracted to evaluate and research the ASISTM-funded Waterproofing the Frankston Cluster: Linking Classroom and Community project. The project links the Frankston cluster schools - four Frankston primary schools and Frankston High School – with local community groups; to take teachers and students into the community and local ecosystems to engage in experiences which will inspire and enhance the teaching and learning of science in the classroom through an environmental topic focus of water.
The Waterproofing the Frankston Cluster: Linking Classroom and Community project aims are:
- To encourage innovation and science education in the cluster schools by supporting teachers to extend their classrooms into the community, taking advantage of real-life experiences and persons of expertise and inspiration available in the community; and
- Students will undertake inquiry learning projects and develop new and original ways to communicate their learnings, scientific values and beliefs to the community.
The aims of the project will be investigated in three phases. These are:
Research phase |
Research method |
Participants |
1 |
Pre Survey |
Teachers and Students |
2 |
Student Researchers |
Students |
3 |
Post Survey |
Teachers and Students |
Grant: $70,000
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Dr Cutter-Mackenzie and children at Frankston Primary School investigating the quality of a local water-way
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