This resource is a partial replication of Building Science Concepts Book 37 Floating and Sinking: How Objects Behave in Water. Floating and sinking provides opportunities for students to observe how everyday objects behave in water and to investigate the factors that determine whether an object will float or sink.
This set of activities enables students to directly observe how everyday objects behave in water and to investigate the factors that determine whether an object will float or sink.
Through play and exploration, students are supported to predict, observe and make sense of their observations. This set of activities enables students to directly observe how everyday objects behave in water and to investigate the factors that determine whether an object will float or sink.
By using simple, everyday examples, we will take you step by step through how you can teach the concepts of force and motion. In this recorded PLD session, Greta Dromgool and Ted Cizadlo will explain key physics concepts and share simple activities to demonstrate these comcepts.
This useful background for educators hands-on activity and interactive to help students understand more about gravity.
In this investigation, students measure distance and time in order to calculate the acceleration of a falling object. The investigation uses an app that precisely measures the time between two sounds.
A force is anything that pushes or pulls on something else. The two main forces that oppose your motion are aerodynamic drag (air resistance) and rolling resistance of the tyres against the road caused as the tyre is compressed.
Learn more in this article about what makes a tree, a tree! While trees are a livings thing with roots, trunk, branches, leaves, and fruit - there is so much more to them!
Aoteraroa, New Zealand is home to many unique and exquisite plant life. With 82% of the flora are endemic - they are not found anywhere else in the world!
This article curates bilingual and te reo Māori resources in a form accessible to students and teachers with limited prior knowledge relating to plant identification and biology.
In this recorded professional learning session, Lyn Rogers from the Science Learning Hub and Ben Moorhouse from the Department of Conservation introduce some readily available resources and model activities about New Zealand’s native trees.
This Connected article explains how trees, the sea and soil act as carbon sinks. The Hub article has excellent related content and related links to help students understand the carbon cycle.
So many of our trees are unique, so are the ecosystems they help to create. Trees have positive roles in the environment including how they stabilise the soil, reduce flooding dangers, cool our cities and help to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Plants play a key role in maintaining the balance of earths cycles. As trees are larger than other plants, their contribution is significant.
Matua Wiremu Puke (Ngāti Wairere, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāpuhi) shares mātauranga whakairo (carving knowledge) with tauira. In this video, we hear about the importance for carvers to understand and respect the mana of Tāne Māhuta when utilising these valuable resources for carving.
Aotearoa, New Zealand has some of the oldest primeval forests in the world, the largest type of moss and some of the largest tree ferns found anywhere.
Science and mātauranga Māori do not seek to do the same thing.
Mātauranga Maori is knowledge – the knowing about things. Science is about finding out why and how things happen.
Pūtaiao privileges Māori ways of knowing, being and doing. It is a political speaking back for the inclusion of te ao Māori – mātauranga, te reo, tikanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi – in science.
Associate Professor Hēmi Whaanga to discusses mātauranga Māori and shares his perspectives and experiences.
In this recorded professional learning session Chloe Stantiall and Greta Dromgool share their experiences exploring mātauranga as pākehā educators in English medium classrooms
Dr Pauline Harris provides insight on aspects of Māori knowledge. Matariki celebrations provide excellent opportunities to share mātauranga with the wider community.
Reverend Haki Wirihana gives us a glimpse into his upbringing and how knowledge handed down from his whānau taught him ways to protect water quality and maintain the mauri of the river.
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Energy flows through a global Earth system
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