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Kids learn best when you add a problem-solving boost to ‘back-to-basics’ instruction

  • Written by: Andrew J. Martin, Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW
Kids learn best when you add a problem-solving boost to ‘back-to-basics’ instructionThere's no need for the tug of war. Explicit instruction and inquiry based learning go hand-in-hand.from shutterstock.com

Last year there was substantial hand-wringing over Australia’s declining results in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests. Ideas for how to reverse this decline were coming from far and wide,...

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Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environment

  • Written by: Larissa Schneider, DECRA fellow, Australian National University
Plants safely store toxic mercury. Bushfires and climate change bring it back into our environmentIndustrial activities like mining, fossil fuel combustion, and cement production release mercury into the environment.Shutterstock

Climate change and bushfire may exacerbate recent mercury pollution and increase exposure to the poisonous neurotoxin, according to our study published in the Journal of Paleolimnology.

Mercury stored in plants is...

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Building standards give us false hope. There's no such thing as a fireproof house

  • Written by: Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture, UNSW

Bushfires have killed 33 people and destroyed nearly 3,000 houses across Australia so far this fire season. Canberra is under threat right now.

It isn’t only houses. Significant commercial buildings have been destroyed, among them Kangaroo Island’s iconic Southern Ocean Lodge.

In New South Wales alone, 140 schools have been hit. Many...

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How the term 'Anthropocene' jumped from geoscience to hashtags

  • Written by: Dr Duncan Cook, Senior Lecturer in Geography, Australian Catholic University
How the term 'Anthropocene' jumped from geoscience to hashtagsThough its use has grown in the last decade, the Anthropocene concept has been around since the 19th century. John Cobb/Shutterstock, CC BY

Disastrous fires, ongoing drought, and heat extremes have refocused Australians’ attention on the human contribution to climate change.

For decades experts have known (and warned) of the consequences for...

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