New Zealand Science Teacher

Assessment

STEM assessment: free online course
09/02/2015
Assessment for Learning course helps teachers get to grips with assessing STEM subjects.
Infernal essays
23/09/2014
Teacher REMCO BAARS shares a student essay, written as a task for NCEA biology standard B1.2: Biological Issues.
An antibiotics uprising
23/09/2014
Antibiotic resistance is a battle in which we are the underdog, writes Year 11 biology student KRISTEN BLABER-HUNT.
Resource banks a useful tool for science teachers
15/07/2014
NZCER’s online resources for formative assessment have been upgraded.
Chemical Minds offers practical help
23/06/2014
Chemical Minds is a wikispace for students looking for support with their assessment.
Videos help with assessment: teacher and student perspective
14/05/2014
*Matt Nicoll prepares his students for NCEA assessment using online tools.*
Valuing practical work
30/10/2013
Would you do more or less practical work if assessment constraints were removed, asks DENIS BURCHILL.
What are Vocational Pathways?
15/10/2012
Vocational pathways are designed to provide new ways to structure and achieve NCEA, as Josh Williams, Youth Guarantee Vocational Pathways’ Manager, at the Ministry of Education, explains:

Beware! Mines!

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New STEM Scholarships from BP

BP announces innovation scholarships for Kiwi school students »
Fight Germs and Win!

One of the most topical scientific issues of the 21st Century has to be the antibiotic resistance of microbes. This issue threatens, at its worst, to take our health system back to the brink of the 20th Century. At its best, it is causing a paradigm shift in policy, and thoughts and practises around the application, distribution and cost of antibiotics.As Science educators, we are the banner bearers of change. What we teach, and how we teach it, can expedite vital social change around attitudes to health, and particularly the expectations we place upon our medical practitioners. »
Week of Engineering

Get involved with the Week of Engineering! »
Book Review: Investigations in the Classroom, Bk 2

ES Sci Investigations 2 Cover »