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2024 science education summit

Science Education: Fit for Purpose was a national summit co-hosted on 2 July 2024 in Auckland by the Science Learning Hub Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao and Royal Society Te Apārangi. The aim was to ...

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Learning science from home – ideas to deepen learning

Slip some science into everyday activities you can do while at home. The Hub has resources for helping early childhood, lower primary and middle primary students and families. This article ...

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Agency in the Anthropocene

Young people are facing a future of complex environmental challenges. How can we prepare them to save the world when the older generations haven’t? Young people need to be equipped to deal with ...

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Making a solar oven

In this activity, students will learn about using the Sun’s energy to meet our needs. They will be introduced to concepts around solar energy needed for solar cooking (heat) – dark colours for ...

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Mixing and matching ducks

New Zealand is home to a wide variety of ducks. Different native duck species are adapted to particular habitats in New Zealand and have co-existed by taking advantage of different ecological ...

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    REV it UP – electric cars

    REV it UP is a Taranaki-based Participatory Science Platform (PSP) project supported by the New Zealand Government. New Plymouth Boys’ High School and local engineering firm Falcon Engineering ...

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    Non-Newtonian fluids

    Many people have heard of Sir Isaac Newton. He is famous for developing many scientific theories in mathematics and physics. Newton described how ‘normal’ liquids or fluids behave, and he ...

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    Climate change – classroom competencies

    Across the generations – and for young people in particular – climate change is recognised as the most important challenge that our world faces. Education is a critical agent in addressing this ...

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    Understanding the basics of climate change

    In part one of this three-part webinar series, Associate Professor Chris Eames explains the key science ideas we need to understand in order to teach climate change effectively. Climate change is ...

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    Creating collections

    The Hub has a very useful collections tool. Hub users who are signed in can access the tool to create their own collections, collaborate on collections, add their own notes (with both a private ...

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    Seaweek – Kaupapa Moana 2025

    Seaweek is an opportunity for all ages to discover the many ways that our lives are connected to the sea. Seaweek comprises a wide range of events, activities, opportunities, competitions and ...

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    TENZ Wednesday Webinar Series

    Technology Education New Zealand (TENZ) is a non-profit professional, collaborative association, promoting and supporting all levels of technology education in New Zealand. TENZ is organised by ...

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    The Quest

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    20/01/2025 - 21/01/2025
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