• iceberg
  • boy with flowers
  • checking water quality
  • planet eclipse
  • solarsystem model
  • rangitoto trees
  • kids with test tubes
  • kids with earth
  • snowy mountains
  • teens in physics class
  • Rainbow Clouds

    Refraction and diffraction of light through ice crystals in the clouds

  • Philippa On The Ice

    Philippa On The Ice Philippa Werry at an Antarctic research camp 2016

New Zealand Science Teacher

Science Curriculum/Scientific Literacy

  • Masseyfoodpilotplant

    The Food Industry

    2012-10-15

    *The manufacture of foods has dramatically changed in the past thirty years, as **Steve Flint**, Massey University explains: *

  • Ask-A-Scientist: Transport fuels from coal?

    2012-10-15

    Is it true that during the Second World War Germany and South Africa made transport fuels from coal? What is the process and is it feasible today?

  • Periodic Table – more changes

    2012-10-15

    by Suzanne Boniface

  • Green eggs and ham

    Nature of science activity

    2012-04-15

    The following Nature of Science (NoS) activities use colour chemistry and have a focus on ‘Participating and Contributing in Science’. 

  • The nature of chemical bonding

    2012-04-15

    Sheila Woodgate at the University of Auckland, through an analysis of the responses of 400 Year 12 and Year 13 students to a BestChoice module about ionic, covalent and metallic bonding, has exposed student misconceptions that could inform the teaching of bonding.

  • Teach food science to improve health outcomes

    2012-01-15

    Teaching children about food is as important today as it has ever been, as Dr Simon Loveday, Research Scientist, Riddet Institute, Massey University Palmerston North, explains:

  • Teaching causal text connectives in chemistry

    2012-01-15

    A Yr 12 Chem class struggled writing long answers to NCEA Chemistry questions because they didn’t understand causal text connectives. A literacy intervention changed classroom practice for better NCEA scores, as David Whitehead, Waikato Uni, and Fiona Murphy, Sacred Heart Girls’ College Hamilton explain:

  • ormiston students

    A week of hands-on science

    To observe Conservation Week this year, Ormiston Senior College held a science-packed week, writes science technician Alison Blakey.

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