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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...

| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

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

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...

| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Engaging whānau with children's science learning

Author(s): Asri Parkinson, Bronwen Cowie, Jude Doyle, Kathrin Otrel-Cass, Ted Glynn

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...