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Create a lizard-friendly habitat

In this activity, students have the opportunity to create a lizard-friendly habitat in the school grounds. The extension activity involves designing a suitable environment for keeping lizards in ...

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Making a solar oven

In this activity, students will learn about using the Sun’s energy to meet our needs. They will be introduced to concepts around solar energy needed for solar cooking (heat) – dark colours for ...

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Investigating sunscreens

In this activity, students use UV beads to investigate the effectiveness of different sunscreen lotions. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: explain the connection between UV ...

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Making a glider

In this activity, students handcraft a glider from balsa wood. In the process, they learn about aerofoil wing shape, glider parts and terminology. They experiment with flight using variables of ...

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Investigating volcanoes – introduction

Volcanoes are exciting. They can erupt spectacularly, throwing molten rock into the air in pyrotechnic displays that are simply stunning. Did you know that one of the most violent eruptions in ...

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    Testing water for nitrate

    In this activity, students test nitrate levels in various samples of water and draw possible informed conclusions about the results. By the end of this activity, students should be able to ...

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    Comparing tsunamis and surf

    So you want to surf a tsunami? In this article, you’ll learn why that’s not possible – and how dangerous it would be to try. Tsunamis have much more energy than a surf wave, so they last for ...

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    Adapting SLH activities: providing another context

    Transfer, in the context of learning, is “the ability to extend what one has learned in one context to new contexts” (Darling-Hammond & Austin, 2003, p. 190). Opportunities to try out new ...

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    Futures thinking to engage reluctant science learners – ...

    This classroom-based case study describes how futures thinking was introduced in a small, culturally diverse year 9 science class. Of 20 students, half were New Zealand European, almost a third ...

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    Ethics and genetically modified foods – case study

    This class case study provides an example of introducing ethical thinking into the classroom to explore a controversial issue in science. It shows how the ethical frameworks in the Ethics ...

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    National catchments forum 2022

    The NZ Landcare Trust is hosting the National Catchments Forum at Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington. This two-day event will bring together speakers to share their knowledge and experience in ...

    09/05/2022 - 10/05/2022
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    National launch day

    Experience the sight and sound of New Zealand's largest amateur rockets in action! Accelerating from zero to hundreds of kilometers an hour in just a few seconds, propelled skywards on a massive ...

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    ChemEd & BioLive conference 2022

    The Secondary Chemistry Educators of New Zealand (SCENZ) and the Biology Educators’ Association of New Zealand (BEANZ), in conjunction with Auckland University of Technology, are pleased to ...

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