New Zealand Science Teacher

Teacher Education in Science

Get inspired by world experts in microbiology
01/04/2014
Apply for a scholarship to attend a top science conference in Queenstown this August.
Science teaching richly rewarded
04/11/2013
New Zealand Science Teacher talks to award-winning science mentor Dr Judith O’Brien.
The potential of CoRes for new science teachers
07/08/2013
ANNE HUME explores the benefits of early career science teachers working with experts on Content Representation (CoRes) design
Innovative Teacher Series: Kirsty Farrant
29/07/2013
*Teaching ethics in biology class: a self study*
Te Kete Ipurangi: What’s on offer for primary science?
15/04/2012
Resources to guide knowing what to teach and how to teach can be found at TKI, as written by Dayle Anderson, Victoria University of Wellington explains:
Book review: The Complete Sheep
15/04/2012
The Complete Sheep: A Resource for Secondary Biology and Agriculture
Role play gives student science teachers insights
15/01/2012
Role play, using the Primary Connections Programme, in pre-service primary science teacher education gave Year 2 student primary teachers insights into the teaching and learning of science in primary classrooms, as Anne Hume (University of Waikato) explains:
Picture books open door to investigating science
15/01/2012
*Picture books such as ‘The Man Who Walked Between the Towers’ can be used as a launching pad for Years 1 to 10 Nature of Science**1**, as **Mary Loveless**, School Support Services at the University of Waikato explains: *

Beware! Mines!

Beware! Mines! »
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 »