Reflections from curriculum day #3 27.02.15

Alice shared her survey results in which children had to draw and label "Who could be a scientist?"  and "Do you want to be a scientist?"

16% wanted to be a scientist
50% maybe wanted to be a scientist

How to be a scientist - Sci tunes on You tube

Future in Tech ambassadors (volunteers from industry)
funded by the government
resources available online

Nail activity and play dough circuits

 

 

Message that science doesn't care who you are, it is a great leveller

 

Michael Winter from CORE education

 

There will be webinars coming up, use the blackboard collaborate software, Java and maybe Adobe needed

 

Believable contexts

Model resource use and linking to context

Onslow college - principal's award

 

Surveyed children about what they enjoyed/didn't enjoy about science

reframed classic units according to student interest

test by applying facts - not spotting facts

 

Science Postcards

could post these to students during the holidays

density activity in which we stacked colours

 

Literacy Online TKI - for Connected series 2013+

Can embed these slides onto the classroom blog etc.

Add link to R3 desktop

 

Google classrooms

Edmodo - perhaps a better blog format to use as more interactive between audience

 

Science Learning Hub - rapid response to Rena

often about NZ science

can come to school, host webinars

 

Capability activity - take a science photo and write observing and inferring questions pertaining to the photo and the NZC level that you have stated

 

Sedendipity

Canon inkjet printer invention

 

Continental drift, plate tectonics

Wegener 1912 - cartoon thought bubble activity

community of experts (volcanologist, seismologist etc) to use tectonic map and sea floor map to observe, infer and explain