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Increasing diversity in science could be one way to fight inequality
23/01/2015There are compelling reasons for tackling the under-representation of different ethnic groups, women and those from low-income backgrounds in science, writes JAMES MOORE.
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The Virtual Walker Competition warms up
07/12/2014Help your students plan for some great outdoor learning experiences this summer.
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Mars One: inspired vision or doomed mission?
23/10/2014Mars One is among several Mars colonisation projects that have graduated beyond thought experiment territory, and into the planning of actual detail, writes JAYLAN BOYLE.
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Switching to solar at Clyde Quay School
01/10/2014A schoolwide science inquiry has inspired students to think about sustainability concepts.
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The education factor in the green economy
01/10/2014Teaching students to think deeply about sustainability has never been so important, believes DR SIMON McMILLAN.
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Futurology, beyond 2000
26/09/2014The ‘futures practitioners’ of the 1980s imagined a world bright with technological advances. But how do their predictions measure up by 2014 standards? JAYLAN BOYLE investigates.
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Get your ducks in a row
22/09/2014Operation Duckpond is a chance to take part in a fun and useful citizen science project.
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Alchemy and earthquakes: making the Rutherford documentary
02/09/2014DR JOHN CAMPBELL, co-producer of a documentary based on his own book Rutherford Scientist Supreme, describes how the film came to be and what was involved in its making.
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Don’t miss this one-day science education event
25/08/2014Conference aims to strengthen the quality of science education in New Zealand.
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First-ever #SciChatNZ takes place
06/08/2014Tweeting science teachers met up for a chat last week.
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Refraction and diffraction of light through ice crystals in the clouds
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Philippa On The Ice Philippa Werry at an Antarctic research camp 2016
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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. »
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Week of Engineering
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Book Review: Investigations in the Classroom, Bk 2
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