Wellington Girls' College/NIWA Hotshots
Phil Kendon, a science teacher and 2005 New Zealand Science, Mathematics and Technology Teacher Fellow, invited a group of Wellington Girls' College students to come and learn more about the work of scientists at NIWA where his fellowship was based.
Over 3 days, the students were introduced to the video medium through a video workshop. The students learnt how to use a camera and how to interview professionals and the importance of research and planning prior to filming.
The students then went into production on location at NIWA in Evans Bay, Wellington. The students filmed interviews with scientists talking about their careers and filmed the scientists working with specialist equipment used to measure greenhouse gases such as the gas chromatograph. The shoot culminated in filming at the NIWA Atmospheric Research Station at Baring Head on the isolated Wellington coast.
Video clips
Learning about climate change
Phil Kendon explains why he chose to apply for a New Zealand Science, Mathematics and Technology Teacher Fellowship and how it enabled him to further his professional development as a science and chemistry teacher. Find out more about the climate change research that he was involved in whilst working at NIWA.
Careers: Measuring greenhouse gases - from icicles to cows
Trips to Antarctica or to local farmyards are all in a day's work for research scientist Dominic Ferretti. What do icicles and cows have in common?
Careers: The challenge of chemistry
Why did Anitra choose to study chemistry?
Collecting air samples from Baring Head
NIWA scientists collect air samples from an atmospheric research station at Baring Head on Wellington's south coast. What's in the air that we breathe?
What is a gas chromatograph?
A gas chromatograph is a highly specialised piece of laboratory equipment that measures levels of different gases in air samples. Teacher Fellow Phil Kendon and NIWA technician Anitra Fraser explain how the gas chromatograph works.
