Exploration

The Nature of Sciencehttp://sciencelearn.org.nz/Nature-of-Science

http://scienceonline.tki.org.nz/Nature-of-science/Nature-of-Science-Teaching-Activities

• The society for Environmental Exploration

• http://seeconservation.org/ Current projects• http://seeconservation.org/current%20project

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What’s under the sea

Soil farming and science

• http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Soil-Farming-and-Science

• http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Soil-Farming-and-Science/NZ-Research/Soil-Farming-and-Science

• Eg G2T links with gardening and soil health

How is energy created?

Exploring how could Energy be created?

Future Fuels - Exploring energy alternatives

• http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Future-Fuels

• http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Future-Fuels/Teaching-and-Learning-Approaches

• Follow the links and investigate making a solar oven

• Carbon dioxide emissions calculations http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Future-Fuels/Teaching-and-Learning-Approaches/Carbon-dioxide-emissions-calculator

Exploring energy to cook with

• Solar oven http://www.hometrainingtools.com/a/build-a-solar-oven-project

Exploring electricity

• http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/circuitsconductors.html

Conductive Playdough

• http://www.pbs.org/parents/adventures-in-learning/2014/02/electric-play-dough/

What do do with your exploration into circuits? Make your own light…..

• http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-LED-Headlight-for-Bicycle-using-a-bott/

Exploring from cells to planets

• Microscopes and Telescopes

Microscopes

• Follow the context links• Choose a context eg Exploring with

microscopes• http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Exploring-

with-Microscopes

• Learn more about this context

Exploring space – Space Revealed

• http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Space-Revealed

• http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Space-Revealed/Teaching-and-Learning-Approaches

• Hunt the planet • Is there anything out there• Shrink the Solar System

Exploring the gaps in our knowledgehttp://sciencelearn.org.nz/Science-Stories/Science-Made-Simple

Science alive and funhttp://www.sciencealive.co.nz/physical-world#id-26

Exploring ferns

• http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Ferns

• Could be integrated to growing ferns from spores eg Hen and Chicken fern

• Eating fern sprouts/shoots• Supported by planting in gully• Haumiatiketike guardian of “wlid crops”

Exploring, navigating without instruments

Enviro Imprints

• http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Enviro-imprints

• http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Space-Revealed/Teaching-and-Learning-Approaches

Exploring water H2O on the Go

• http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/H2O-On-the-Go

• http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/H2O-On-the-Go/Teaching-and-Learning-Approaches

Experiments

• http://weirdsciencekids.com/FunExperiments.html