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Active reading is an important activity for making meaning during the process of science inquiry (Osborne, 2010). The integration of science and literacy can enhance student learning in both ...

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Reading aloud text with secondary students

This research brief focuses on how one secondary school teacher used a Science Learning Hub activity to develop her year 9 students’ science and literacy skills. For this, she used a variety of ...

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Science and literacy – making connections

In this recorded professional learning session, Lyn Rogers and Angela Schipper explore the connections between science and literacy learning and how they can be integrated. A great informative ...

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Understanding infographics

Our world faces a growing number of complex issues. As citizens, we have a responsibility to make informed decisions on issues like sustainability, health and wellbeing and more. The scientific ...

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Making scents

This Connected article is about a class project that 7–8-year-old students conducted after their teacher challenged them to find out how the smell gets into a scented candle. In the process, they ...

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The fish highway

This Connected article, written and illustrated by Adele Jackson, looks at the discovery that fish and eels are using Wellington’s stormwater system as access between streams and the sea. Rights ...

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Plant reproduction – literacy and numeracy learning ...

Plant reproduction is a topic that lends itself to many areas within the junior and middle school curriculum. This teacher resource provides a number of literacy and numeracy links to New Zealand ...

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Exploring the images and whakataukī connecting to Te ...

Each whetū in Te Kāhui o Matariki – the Matariki star cluster – is associated with an aspect of wellbeing and the environment. Aotearoa New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ use ...

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Te Kāhui o Matariki – interpreting infographics

Infographics provide an effective format to present a variety of things in a single figure. The science capability ‘Interpret representations’ encourages students to think about how data is ...

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New Zealand native earthworm O. multiporus

New Zealand has over 200 known species of earthworms. Most of these are natives and are found nowhere else in the world. Many of our native earthworms live in remote forest habitats so we don’t ...

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OAC 2020: an independent scientific report

Drew Bingham and Bonnie Farrant are part of a team that produced Our atmosphere and climate 2020. They discuss how the team maintains its independence and what role evidence plays in what they’ve ...

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Using an authentic context for teaching science

Classroom teacher Sue Fergus reflects on the impacts that a distillation project has had on her students’ learning in science and across the curriculum. Sue notes that the project has also ...

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Science and literacy – making connections

This slideshow, from the webinar Science and literacy – making connections, provides additional support for the video tutorial. Use the Slideshow menu for further options, including view full ...

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Literacy in the secondary science classroom

This slideshow, from the webinar Literacy in the secondary science classroom, provides additional support for the video tutorial. Use the Slideshow menu for further options, including view full ...

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Science through picturebooks – slideshow

This slideshow, from the webinar Science through picturebooks, provides additional support for the video tutorial. Use the Slideshow menu for further options, including view full screen, and go ...

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