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Science education
The SCIAnTICT project: Technology-enhanced teaching and learning of primary science
This project explored how ICTs in primary classrooms can enhance the teaching and learning of the practical and theoretical aspects of science. By building on teacher and Years 7/8 student prior knowledge and experiences with ICTs, the authors investigated how ICT use can structure activities that would offer enhanced opportunities for students to actively participate in science. The project generated examples of how ICTs can support ways of exploring and communicating science, and evaluating what has been learnt.
The challenges of graph interpretation in science
This article draws on several reviews that have documented known challenges for students when learning to use graphs in science contexts. It then illustrates these challenges with examples drawn from the New Zealand Council for Educational Research’s recently developed test series, Science: Thinking with Evidence.
Planning and developing a social studies programme: a case for “serious talk” in the syndicate
An analysis of the high representation of scientific and mathematical disciplines in New Zealand Scholarship Premier awards
Ripples of action: Strengthening environmental competency in an early childhood centre
Becoming ecologically sustainable in early childhood education
Children's Attitudes to the Natural Environment
Observing at school camps gives a brief picture of how attitudes can be improved.
The Greenhouse effect: what do we, and our pupils, need to consider?
What do school pupils know already about the changes to climate, environment, economies, and life style that the greenhouse effect is bringing? Research showing we have the basic facts, but need discussion of the consequences.
Out of the Frying Pan... Learning and Teaching in First Year University Biological Sciences
What makes one student successful in his or her first year of university study, and another struggle or fail? First year students were followed, questioned, and the results point to things both the students and their secondary schools can do.