Connected 2015 Level 3 - Fact or Fiction?
Inside this Collected series there are four articles ("Pseudoscience"; "Sleep Sleuths"; "The Science of Rongoā"; "Catching a Space Duck").
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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: Critique evidence
Connected 2015 Level 3 - Fact or Fiction?
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 they can grow over time.
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Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience is something that sounds scientific but isn’t actually based on solid evidence. Advertisments often use pseudoscience, which can be misleading. To be able to tell the difference between real science and pseudoscience, we need to think like scientists.
1 of 4Sleep Sleuths
How much sleep should we be getting? How many people get enough sleep every night? Jeremy and Marama carry out an investigation to find out how much sleep their classmates are getting.
2 of 4The Science of Rongoā
Māori use kawakawa as rongoā (traditional medicine). But when scientists tested the kawakawa leaves they said there was no scientific evidence to support the plant’s medicinal properties. Chris Ryan took a closer look at the scientists’ investigations and noticed that they had not used traditional m...
3 of 4Catching a Space Duck
In 2004, the European Space Agency sent a spacecraft (called Rosetta) to chase a rubber-ducky-shaped comet called Comet Churyumov-Gerasamenko/67P. In 2014, Rosetta caught up with Comet 67P and sent a lander (called Philae) down to the surface of the comet. Scientists are using the information Rosett...
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