This collection has been put together to support the Science Roadshow 2024 programme.

https://roadshow.nz/

The Science Roadshow offers school children, their teachers and accompanying parents and wider public visitors an opportunity to explore various science and technology concepts by ‘touch and feel’. It provides a unique, informal learning opportunity that:
  • excites and enthuses visitors;
  • nurtures curiosity and discovery;
  • improves motivation and attitude;
  • adds to teacher knowledge;
  • supports numeracy and literacy;
  • encourages social interaction and co-operative learning;
  • provides memorable real life contextual elements and exemplars

The purpose of the science puzzles is to expose students to vocabulary and maths principles that will help them gain more from their visit to the Science Roadshow and from other science experiences. Like any discipline, science uses words and aspects of numeracy that are specific and purposeful, which aid students’ understanding and their ability to communicate ideas.

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Here are some resources that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - The Body Word Chain

ARTICLE 

Body systems

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ARTICLE 

Improving vision screening for children

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ARTICLE 

Hearing

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ARTICLE 

X-ray imaging

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ACTIVITY 

Labelling the heart

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ACTIVITY 

Heartbeat calculator

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Here are some resources that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - The Energy crossword.

ARTICLE 

Energy transfer

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ARTICLE 

Conservation of energy

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ARTICLE 

Waves and energy – energy transfer

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ARTICLE 

Waves and energy – wave basics

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ARTICLE 

Alternative conceptions about energy

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Here are some resources that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - Elements and double puzzle

ARTICLE 

Investigating elements — question bank

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ARTICLE 

Elements – weird and wonderful

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Here are some resources that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet.

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Activity - Units Blitz

ARTICLE 

SI base units

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INTERACTIVE 

The International System of Units (the SI)

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IMAGE 

Historical units of measurement

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Here are some resources that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - What makes the difference?

ARTICLE 

Introducing magnetism

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TEACHER PLD 

Physical World – Sound

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ARTICLE 

Kelvin – The ThermoKennel

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TEACHER PLD 

Building Science Concepts: Floating and sinking

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ARTICLE 

The Moon and its misconceptions

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TEACHER PLD 

Building Science Concepts: Shadows

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Here are some resources that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - The celery experiment

ARTICLE 

Digestive enzymes

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ARTICLE 

Digestion chemistry — key terms

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ARTICLE 

Digestion chemistry – question bank

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Here are some resources that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - The solar oven

ACTIVITY 

Making a solar oven

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ARTICLE 

Harnessing the Sun – introduction

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Here is a resource that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - the biodegradable plant pot

ARTICLE 

Biodegradability

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Here is a resource that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - Discovering volumes

ACTIVITY 

Balloons and air density

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Here are some resources that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - Observe the difference – growing crystals

ACTIVITY 

Growing crystals

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ARTICLE 

CubeSats, crystals and microgravity

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Here are some resources that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - Hydroelectric power

ARTICLE 

Energy sources through time – timeline

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ARTICLE 

Renewable energy sources

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ARTICLE 

Hydro power

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Here is a resource that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - Wind turbines

ARTICLE 

Wind power

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Here are some resources that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - Solar

ARTICLE 

Solar energy

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ARTICLE 

Photovoltaics

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Here is a resource that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - Power

ARTICLE 

Geothermal power

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Here is a resource that may be useful to support the activities within the 2024 Science Roadshow Programme resource booklet

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Activity - Insulators

ARTICLE 

Electricity – electrons, insulators and conductors

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