Connected 2013 level 3 - Food for Thought
In this Connected series there are five articles ("Why is the Moon Upside Down?"; "A New Zealand Crocodile?"; "Fast Rust"; "You Can Count on It"; "The Fish Highway").
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The focus in this issue of Connected is on the Nature of Science strand of the curriculum and the science capability: Gather and interpret data.
Connected 2013 level 3 - Food for Thought
At times, themes require the introduction of concepts that students at this curriculum level may not be able to fully understand. What matters at this stage is that students begin to develop understandings that grow over time.
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Why is the Moon Upside Down?
The Moon looks weird up here. There’s something wrong with it.
1 of 5A New Zealand Crocodile?
On a scorching hot day in 1989, near the small Central Otago town of St Bathans, a group of scientists were digging in the soil. What they would find would change our ideas about the animals that have lived in Aotearoa.
2 of 5Fast Rust
What doesn’t breathe but can’t live without air, doesn’t drink but needs water near, never sleeps and won’t rest much, is stronger than steel, but crumbles at a touch?
3 of 5The Fish Highway
There is a maze of water and sewage pipes under Wellington’s pavements, beneath manhole covers and bundles of cables.
4 of 5You Can Count On It
Fa‘aea’s Mum is a meteorologist. She talked to Fa‘aea’s class about sorting and displaying data in different ways.
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