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Two Years 7/8 teachers planned, implemented and reflected on teaching a unit about erosion and landforms with the support of ICT tools. They used videos, photos, animations and digital microscopes—as...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Science and technology are so central to our 21st century lives that few would dispute their importance in the school curriculum. They underpin many jobs, inform challenging issues facing us as a...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Here, the focus is on ways to build continuity, coherence, and connections in learning over time.
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article illustrates the potential of using multiple means to help express and develop ideas.
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The water cycle is an important context for school science, but the uncritical use of diagrams to simplify ideas may lead to misconceptions. Incorporating learning about how representations such as...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2008_2_010.pdf | Content type: Set article
Using assessment information formatively to contribute to teaching skills and knowledge that underpin the key competencies. The example used is from a study of 600 student...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article proposes that if we want students to care about and for the environment they need to develop an understanding of the "big picture"—that is, how the separate elements of a system interact...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article outlines Chinese-speaking students' perceptions of what helps and what hinders their learning of science in English in New Zealand secondary classrooms. Six students were interviewed to...
| Year published: 2004 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Some of the findings from a research project that aimed to document the role that a visit to one New Zealand science and technology centre played in the educational activities of six visiting primary...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This paper explores differences between scientists’ experiences of science and the investigations that are a common type of learning activity in school science. The first half of the paper makes a...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article