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New Zealand Science Learning Hub Newsletter
Issue 1: Summer 2007
Kia ora, and welcome to the inaugural newsletter of the New Zealand Science Learning Hub – dedicated to sparking fresh thinking in science education www.sciencelearn.org.nz
What’s new?
The New Zealand Science Learning Hub site went live in July and is crammed full of up-to-date articles, video clips, images, and teaching and learning materials based on the requirements of the New Zealand science curriculum.
Four contexts were chosen for the launch, each exploring a major theme and providing a gateway to related content and explorations, and the stories of New Zealand’s science and technology sector in action.
Earthquakes
This context explains slow slips, and showcases New Zealand’s world-class expertise in the field of base isolation.
Find out more: Strengthening Parliament House | Sciencelearn Hub
Icy Ecosystems: Antarctica
This context introduces us to Earth’s coldest continent and some of the researchers who are investigating its delicate balance.
Find out more: Life in the freezer | Sciencelearn Hub
See-Through Body
This context looks inside the human body and at the medical imaging technologies that help us to understand its intricacies.
Find out more: Looking at the brain with MRI | Sciencelearn Hub
Sporting Edge
This context considers ways in which human beings are gaining increased strength and endurance.
Find out more: Whole body vibration training | Sciencelearn Hub
Check out the latest science-related news and events from New Zealand and overseas.
Getting the big ideas
Scientific study requires a basic knowledge and understanding of ideas and concepts.
Articles in the Hub’s Science Ideas and Concepts collections provide an opportunity to explore the knowledge aspects of each context, provide explanations of the ideas that are fundamental to each of the contexts and make links to the underlying science principles and thinking.
Find out more: See-Through Body: Science Ideas and Concepts | Sciencelearn Hub
Making the most of the Hub
Why not register for My Sci?
Registering on the Hub provides extra features like bookmarking your favourite pages. It also lets you subscribe to receive this newsletter, which we will be sending out regularly with information about new content, features, events, people, and news about what’s happening in science education.
Register now to experience the full benefits of the New Zealand Science Learning Hub – it’s free and easy to do.
Check out tips finding your way around the Hub.
Coming soon
IPY Voyage to the Ross Sea
In February and March 2008, 26 scientists and 18 crew will take part in an 8 week voyage aboard the research vessel Tangaroa. This voyage has a biodiversity focus and the scientists will be collecting samples of living material from the sea floor to the sea surface and from microscopic to megasize.
This voyage will be featured in weekly themes in Icy Ecosystems including Life on Board, Ocean Currents and Plankton and Food Webs. Information will be updated each week and will include data collected on the voyage as well as daily thoughts posted by the scientists and the crew.
We welcome your ideas
We are keen to receive your ideas and feedback about the Science Learning Hub, for example, we would like to know what new contexts and resources you might like to see added to the Hub in the future to help you with your teaching and learning needs.
Please contact us at: enquiries@sciencelearn.org.nz
Best wishes
Di Hartwell, Project Manager, The New Zealand Science Learning Hub