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ICT in support of science teaching and learning: Teaching landforms and erosion

Author(s): Bronwen Cowie

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

Challenges for science education

Author(s): Richard Meylan

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

Making connections in the teaching and learning of science and technology

Author(s): Alister Jones, Bronwen Cowie, Kathrin Otrel-Cass

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

More than talk and writing: Exploring the multimodal nature of classroom interactions

Author(s): Alister Jones, Bronwen Cowie, Kathrin Otrel-Cass

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

Putting the Nature of Science strand into the water cycle

Author(s): Ally Bull, Bill MacIntyre, Chris Joyce, Rosemary (Rose) Hipkins MNZM

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:

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Some musings about the links between formative assessment and the development of key competencies

Author(s): Chris Joyce

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

Thinking about the "big picture": how can school science contribute?

Author(s): Ally Bull, Chris Joyce, Rosemary (Rose) Hipkins MNZM

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

Chinese-speaking students' perceptions of learning science in English in New Zealand

Author(s): Bronwen Cowie

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

Building a “vocabulary of experiences”: Supporting children’s learning in science centres

Author(s): Rachel Bolstad

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

You can’t investigate in a vacuum

Author(s): Rosemary (Rose) Hipkins MNZM

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...