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Mike’s News Oct 10

Posted on by Mike Stone
1-31 Oct Health Literacy month www.healthliteracymonth.org/
1-31 Oct Save Kiwi month www.kiwisforkiwi.org/save-kiwi-week/schools
1-31 Oct Breast Cancer Awareness month www.nzbcf.org.nz (Pink Ribbon)
9-15 Oct Earth Sciences week (USA) http://www.earthsciweek.org/about-esw
11-12 Oct NZAEE conf locally and online. https://www.nzaee.org.nz/conference-information/2022
11-13 Oct ConSTANZ, technicians’ conference https://stanz.nzase.org.nz/constanz/
12 Oct Ada Lovelace day, women in STEM http://findingada.com/
12-13 Oct uLearn conference https://core-ed.org/en_NZ/events/ulearn22
14 Oct Deadline for students to apply for Powering Potential December science programme.
14 Oct World Sight Day http://www.iapb.org/advocacy/world-sight-day
16 Oct World Food Day www.fao.org/wfd/
16-22 Oct Niue language week www.mpia.govt.nz
17 Oct Voting starts for Te Manu Rongonui o te Tau Bird of the Year
18 Oct Deadline to apply for Prime Minister’s Science Teacher and Future scientist prizes
19 Oct Alison Campbell’s Schol Bio workshop, Waikato Dio 5:30 pm amchugh@wdsg.school.nz
21 Oct Peak of Orionids meteor shower http://www.rasnz.org.nz/in-the-sky/meteor-showers
23 Oct Mole day http://www.moleday.org/
23-29 Oct Tokelau language week www.mpia.govt.nz
24 Oct Diwali https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/new-zealand/diwali
24 Oct World polio day http://wpd.typepad.com/worldpolioday/
Moon FM Oct 10      3Q Oct 18      NM Oct 25      1Q Nov 1
  1. Ross Ferguson talks on the history of kiwifruit at Lecture theatre 1, EIT, Taradale, 6-7pm 25 Oct.
  2. Prof Rod Badcock talks about power intensive applications of superconductivity at Council Chamber, L2 Hunter Building, Kelburn Parade, Wellington, 6pm on 18 Oct. Register here.
  3. Resources for the NZ ShakeOut, our national earthquake drill and tsunami hīkoi evacuation, Thurs 27 October. https://getready.govt.nz/involved/shakeout/
  4. Science in Dark Times: Women in Science is showing Shirley Horrock’s film about our science advisor Juliet Gerrard as a fundraiser 11 Oct, 6-9pm at Hoyts Riccarton. Get tickets here.
  5. Resource for Niue Language Week: https://www.mikesnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Common-phrases-Niuean-2p.docx

Info

  1. Culturally Responsive & Relational Pedagogy:
    • John Campbell on learning about the effects of colonisation & land confiscation in Taranaki
    • A reading about growing cultural competence using the analogy of standing on two feet.
  2. Mātauranga Māori
  3. Pedagogy:
    • Word wall provides templates for creating games and puzzles https://wordwall.net
    • A video to explain Claim Evidence Reasoning with a bio example & a reading w a chem e.g.
  4. Student opportunities:
    • Inventionator is CORE Education’s free online event for gifted and talented students in yrs 6-9 from 28 Nov – 1 Dec. Students collaborate and think critically to design innovative solutions to real-life problems. https://core-ed.org/en_NZ/events/inventionator-for-gifted-learners
    • Reminder about a competition for yr7-10 students to design a satellite mission. This is an opportunity for students to learn more about the MethaneSAT mission which will be used in the fight against climate change. Deadline 5pm Fri 28 Oct.
    • A holiday colouring contest as a charity PR project for The Moths & Butterflies of NZ Trust.
  5. Teacher Opportunities
    • School to Skies Teacher Edition 2023 is a behind the scenes, FREE, 5-day, hands-on learning experience that you can take back to the classroom. At RNZAF Base Auckland 15-20 Jan 2023. Current teachers of yr 5-13 students can apply, deadline 16 Oct rnzaf.schooltoskies.co.nz/info/
  6.  Literacy:
  7.  HoD:
  8. Digital support:
    • Scratch Pad offer open days every Saturday and Sunday at their Auckland Centres
  9. Science Careers:

Resources

  1. Biology:
  2. Agricultural and Horticultural Science:
    • Recent survey showed 80% of urban students know little about how their food is produced. Farmer Time connects urban primary schools with farmers & growers, www.farmertime.co.nz
    • Fieldays (30 Nov – 3 Dec) is offering schools a discount for groups of 10 or more students when they visit in Week 7 of Term 4. https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx…
  3. Earth & Space Science:
    • Article about the DART project smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid
    • Ideas for teaching about earthquakes
  4. Chemistry:
  5. Physics:
  6. Primary & intermediate:
    • Follow up to last week, Ally Bull explains what she means by a library of experiences.
    • TeachEngineering has a Popular Topics page dedicated to hands-on, design-based activities for US grades 3-8 on the various phenomena, wonders and engineering feats in space!
  7.  EfS:
    • November 10 is a day of talks and classroom activities for students on climate change (in UK).
    • A graph of vehicle carbon emissions
  8.  Science
  9. Nature of Science:
    • 5 min video on what science processes really look like – it is not a linear method.

Professional Learning & Development (PLD) Opportunities

  1. Learning Network NZ, each of these $450 for non-members.
  2. Kohia Teacher’s Centre, Gate 2, 76 Epsom Ave, Epsom
  3. Canterbury Science Teacher Association PLD for science leaders and aspiring leaders 8 Nov at Ara, Madras St, Chch. Draft programme here. Free for CSTA members, else $40. Register here link.
  4. Register here for the next Science is Cool conference 10-11 Nov. Starts at 11am PT (7am NZST).

Cheers, Mike

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