Discover new inspiration for your classroom with The Helix Teacher's Guide, including a teaching unit, discussion topic and science lesson plan.
The Helix Teacher's Guides
Bring new ideas to your classroom with The Helix Teacher's Guides, including lesson plans, black-line masters and other support material for teachers.
- 1 October 2011 | Updated 1 February 2012
The Helix is a magazine of CSIRO's Double Helix Science Club. The Teacher’s Guide supports articles and activities in each issue of The Helix and will assist teachers to stimulate young minds about science with:
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a contextualised teaching unit crossing different curriculum areas
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a 'big issues' discussion topic
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a science lesson plan.
All activities are linked to articles in the related issue of The Helix and many include black line masters.
Bulk subscribers to The Helix magazine receive a free print version of the Teacher's Guide. The order form for bulk subscriptions is available via the link on this page.
To have the Teacher's Guide posted to your home or school, join CSIRO's Double Helix Science Club. To have each issue of the Teacher’s Guide sent straight to your inbox, send a blank email to helixteachersguides-join@lists.csiro.au. Alternatively you can download the six most recent editions here:
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Fast facts
- The Helix Teacher's Guides are published concurrently with The Helix magazine, every two months
- Each edition includes a teaching unit, 'big issue' discussion topic and science lesson plan related to feature articles in that issue of The Helix magazine, plus other teacher support materials
- To have the Teacher's Guide posted to you, join CSIRO's Double Helix Science Club
- Alternatively, you can download recent issues for free online
