Critical Thinking is a NSW Department of Education Approved Elective Course
Course details are not included on RoSA
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Do you want skills that will prepare you for any future career?
✓ Are you open-minded and love solving problems?
✓ Do you want to understand how your mind and the world around you work?
✓ Do you like to delve deeper into issues?
✓ Would you like to do research and laboratory work on things you are passionate about?
Exploring Science (Critical Thinking) delves deeper into real-life Science and provides students with the skills, tools, and opportunities to improve their problem-solving and higher-order thinking skills. Students will conduct laboratory and project work that provides opportunities to engage with Scientists in Industry/Research, develop practical skills, think critically, build creatively, and write/report for an audience.
This course aims to engage and encourage students to develop their scientific reasoning and critical thinking skills as well as recognise the key aspects of a critical thinking mind. They will develop the essential skills to plan and conduct first-hand investigations, literature reviews and evaluate the vast and diverse amount of information they encounter in their daily lives. This will help them face future challenges in a continually evolving world.
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