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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
Lab work is the unique feature of a science education. Most of the physical and biological sciences are essentially empirical - research is conducted, knowledge is produced and progress is made in...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
For years I've had vague feelings of disquiet about my teaching of science and I couldn't work out what was worrying me. I read up the Units beforehand to see the scientific facts the children needed...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Four small focus groups of adults were observed while they interacted with material related to a science-technology issue. The results shed light on some basic issues in science teaching, such as how...
| 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
When their funds of knowledge and experiences from home and the community are connected to their school learning, students' learning is supported. In this study teachers used "home learning books" to...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The New Zealand Curriculum [NZC] identifies an understanding of science that supports informed citizenship as a major goal for the Science learning area. The Nature of Science strand, which explores...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The successful implementation of electronically networked (e-networked) tools to support an inquiry-learning approach in secondary science classrooms is dependent on a range of factors...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article reports on a case study from a larger project exploring ways in which online citizen science projects can enhance students’ learning in science and in digital technology. In this case,...
| Year published: 2023 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In 2018, a research project funded by New Zealand’s Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) explored the impact of online citizen science (OCS) projects on the science education of...
| Year published: 2020 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article