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SciCon 2016: day 2
13/07/2016Day two of SciCon 2016 ended with a pub quiz night that this journalist quietly declined to partake in: there’s nothing like a roomful of science teachers and academics to shatter one’s general knowledge self-image.
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Two for one conference aims to enliven science teaching
01/04/2015For the first time, BEANZ and NZIC will run their conferences in tandem.
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Gunpowder and particle board: becoming a science technician
26/11/2013Ian de Stigter writes about his journey from a young explosives-maker to a science technician supporting student integrity.
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Nanette Lee wins STANZ award
06/11/2013The inaugural Kay Memmott Award was presented to Nanette Lee at ConSTANZ in October.
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A life devoted to science education
04/08/2013Legendary science technician Kay Memmott looks back on her long career.
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Workplace change for science technicians
15/10/2012School science technicians are involved with a variety of changes which are taking place in their work and workplace, and believe that some further developments are overdue, writes Ian de Stigter.
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Periodic Table – more changes
15/10/2012by Suzanne Boniface
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Tips for science teachers
15/10/2012Frustrated by lack of useful information for better utilising science technicians? Arwen Heyworth, Onehunga High School offers some useful tips:
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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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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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Book Review: Investigations in the Classroom, Bk 2
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