changes of matter

Science is about discovery, curiosity and observation. Two key outcomes of any activity can simply be enjoyment and the conversations that arise from the experience. Take...

In this recorded professional learning session, Greta Dromgool and the New Zealand Association of Primary Science Educators (NZAPSE) team will build your confidence with teaching chemistry....

In this recorded professional learning session, Greta Dromgool will build your knowledge and confidence to teach the particle nature of matter – a key concept in...

Where can a question take you? For Sue Fergus and her students at Taranaki’s Toko School, questions about candle scents and what to do with lavender...

Carbon moves through the Earth’s system in many different ways. The carbon cycle is a visualisation of the processes that move and store carbon between living...

In this activity, students are encouraged to think about the process of making ice cream and to explore the concept of states of matter through simple...

In this recorded professional learning session, Lyn Rogers and Angela Schipper explore aspects of kitchen science. They discuss how kitchen science can be used to deepen...

In this activity, students build simple models to demonstrate the differing impacts of melting land ice and sea ice on sea level rise. Although this activity...

One implication of climate change is sea level rise. Sea level is the average height of the ocean relative to the land, between the high and...

In this online PD session recorded in August 2015, secondary school teacher Steve Chrystall describes how he uses the Science Learning Hub’s satellites and rocket resources...

Below are links to Science Learning Hub resources for primary teachers related to heat in the Physical World strand of the New Zealand Curriculum. Primary teachers...

In this activity, students write an explanation of how heat energy is involved in the change of state as ice changes to water and then to...

Many resources on the Science Learning Hub explore ideas relating to carbon and its uses, processes, reactions and how it cycles within and around Earth. This...

In this activity, students read about the carbon cycle using a three-level reading guide. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: locate...

It is important for students to understand how a specific task and idea fits within and contributes to their learning in the longer term and across...

A team of US astronomers, after years of working in the Antarctic, say they have found long-awaited evidence for the theory that the Universe underwent a...

In this activity, students watch a teacher demonstration, and the results will allow an estimate of the latent heat of vaporisation of water to be made....

Each day, we consciously experience atmospheric weather, driven by radiation from the Sun. In addition, we are mostly unknowingly subjected to space weather driven primarily by...

Converting states of matter from one form into another requires the involvement of heat energy. For example, converting water at 100°C into steam at 100°C requires...

Matter is anything that occupies space and has mass. All physical objects are composed of matter, and an easily observed property of matter is its state...

Drama is a process that actively engages students in the expression, analysis and sharing of their feelings, perceptions, attitudes and ideas (O’Hara, 1984). Presentations can be...

In the primary classroom, students may be involved with a science topic over several weeks. They need to be supported to develop their scientific understandings in...

In the primary classroom, even though teachers and students generally spend the day together, it cannot be assumed that students will experience their learning as coherent,...

Shulman’s (1987) notion of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is concerned with how to teach specific disciplinary ideas and skills to particular students. Teachers need to develop...