New Zealand Science Teacher

Science Education & Society

The YouTube classroom
18/07/2014
The internet has well and truly emerged as an innovative learning tool, writes STEVE McCABE.
Schools turn trash into treasure
30/06/2014
TerraCycle puts forward a recycling challenge for Kiwi schools.
Apply for a student pass to this year’s AWIS conference
21/05/2014
Get inspired by women in science this July.
Embracing wildness: we talk to Jean Fleming
23/04/2014
Jean Fleming, reproductive biologist and environmentalist, will be speaking at SciCon 2014.
Our plastic oceans
18/04/2014
We use plastic every day, but this addiction is creating an unholy continent of sludge in the ocean, writes MELISSA WASTNEY.
IceFest is on its way
15/04/2014
Get your students learning about Antarctica this spring.
Science communication is for everyone
11/03/2014
Jo Thompson is passionate about making science accessible to everyone.
Lord Robert Winston visits New Zealand
04/03/2014
Tune in to a collaborative science education event on March 13.
Apply now for a grant for environmental science in your class
01/03/2014
The deadline for applications to the Bayer Primary Science Fund is April 2.
A passion for our unique biodiversity
25/02/2014
Simon Moore is an ecologist for the Department of Conservation in the Nelson/Marlborough area.

Beware! Mines!

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New STEM Scholarships from BP

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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. »
Week of Engineering

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

ES Sci Investigations 2 Cover »