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Teaching sustainability through real-life science
2013-10-10
Getting to know more about students’ culture and value systems can enhance the teaching of real-world science, writes MARGARET ARTHUR.
Musings of a first-time sustainability teacher
2013-09-18
What happens when a physics teacher wants to explore a complex topic like sustainability with her students? ANNE NICOLSON describes her experience.
Smartphones help save forest
2013-06-10
Solar-powered smartphones hanging from trees in rainforests are playing an important new role: alerting environmentalists to illegal logging.
Share learning resources on Environment Day
2013-06-05
Science teachers have a world of environmental resources to tap into
Sustainability in classroom science
2012-10-15
*The latest statistics from the National Education Monitoring Project show that primary students are less interested in science are disconcerting (Crooks, Smith & Flockton, 2008). How can we ignite primary students’ interest in science? Asks **Sally Birsdall**. *
Book review: Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon
2012-10-15
Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon
A butterfly story: being a citizen scientist
2012-04-15
*Like kiwi and tuatara, New Zealand native butterflies are seldom seen in the wild. This story tells how and what a primary classroom learnt about butterflies and native butterflies, and the actions they took as citizen scientists to protect them. **Junjun Chen, Bronwen Cowie, **and **Angela Schipper**, from the University of Waikato, explain: *