John Elfick, now retired to Victoria, has authorised QSN to re-publish a range of lesson materials commenced while he served with UNESCO. They include primary-level lessons and also experiments for high schools in physics, chemistry, biology and geology to improve science teaching.
Mr Elfick has written to QSN: “I wrote the original versions in UNESCO Paris headquarters and UNESCO Beijing, where I published it at Capital Normal University, (formerly Peking Teachers’ College) in a series of little books (in Chinese) as Overseas Middle School Experiments, Physics etc, including a book on Sexuality Education!
“However, with my retirement, UNESCO closed down its Science Education Section, but gave me access to all former UNESCO science teaching publications. When I returned to the University of Queensland on an adjunct contract, I was given the title ‘School Science Lessons’. I dumped into it all my writings and what I had collected in UNESCO.
Complete series – External link
Click on https://johnelfick.github.io/school-science-lessons/ for the complete set of lessons, retained on GitHub. See below for links to Mr Elfick’s GitHub archive of lessons on individual subjects.
Table of contents
Australian native foods, Bushfoods
Prepare chemicals, Chemistry
Geology, Earth Science
Plants Common names of plants, A to Z.
Plants Scientific names of plants, A to Z
Science, Maths and Technology, Scientific Literacy
Click here for a comprehensive list of other websites.