23 Nov	BEANZ Auckland workshop
25 Nov	Chemistry PLD, VuW Kelburn, Wellington, $40. Q’s to Joyce.Lan@vuw.ac.nz
26/27 Nov	PCT Day, Cashmere HS – Free to members, else $30. Register here
27 Nov	Physics day at UoA cancelled
27 Nov	Physics PLD VuW Kelburn, Wellington, Q’s to gabrielle.holmes@vuw.ac.nz
30 Nov	Chemistry & Physics PLD, Garin College, Nelson. $40. Q’s to Joyce.Lan@vuw.ac.nz
30 Nov	Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 10:42pm https://www.rasnz.org.nz/in-the-sky/eclipses-2019
1 Dec	World AIDS Day https://www.nzaf.org.nz/ (Red Ribbon)
4 Dec	Chemistry PLD, VuW, L4/50 Kitchener St, Auckland. $40. Q’s to Joyce.Lan@vuw.ac.nz
5 Dec	World Soil Day www.nzsoils.org.nz
Moon	FM 30 Nov        3Q 8 Dec         NM 15 Dec          1Q 22 Dec

Info

1. Culturally Responsive & Relational Pedagogy:
   • 10 ways to add te reo Māori into your everyday work on p13 of this mag https://water.partica.online/contrafed/september-october-2020/flipbook/12/
   • Poster about different types of wai https://www.waternz.org.nz/Attachment?Action=Download&Attachment_id=4359
2. Pedagogy
   • An infographic on agency https://theeducationhub.org.nz/agency-infographic
3. The November NZASE newsletter has publicly available articles on Atua and the periodic table and Pūhoro STEM academy and members-only articles on Ammonium nitrate explosions and Teaching astronomy. Join here https://nzase.org.nz/membership/

Resources

1. Biology:
   • Lessons guiding students through a nuanced understanding of the evolution of deer mouse fur color – showing how ecology, cell biology, molecular biology, inheritance, and population genetics all work together. https://learn.concord.org/connectedbio?
   • Interactive key for identifying insects in your backyard https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/tools-and-resources/identification/what-is-this-bug/
   • As spring is tadpole season, you may like to do an end-of-year unit on frogs. This is about our native frogs https://predatorfreenz.org/nzs-unfroglike-frogs/
2. Earth & Space Science:
   • Explore the hands-on activities in this grade 5 unit on weather & climate to understand air properties & composition, relative humidity, barometric pressure & weather patterns.
   • When I couldn’t find a table of planetary data in metric units and without Pluto I made one
   • This activity models sea-floor-mapping using an echo sounder https://www.earthlearningidea.com/PDF/351_Sea_floor_mapping2.pdf
3. Chemistry:
   • An article on vaping, with teacher guide https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/resources/highschool/chemmatters/past-issues/2019-2020/dec-2019/vaping.html
   • Eucalypt roots can absorb gold particles & store them in the leaf, acting as a gold detector https://www.nationalgeographic.com/…/131022-gold…/
   • Balloon activity to model molecular shapes https://www.carolina.com/teacher-resources/Interactive/molecular-geometry-with-balloons/tr35717.tr
4. Physics:
   • Activity building a solar cell using berries https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/uoh_organic_activity1
   • Article & video on gravitational waves https://education.australiascience.tv/gravitational-waves
   • Student activity to find the water pressure in water guns https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/cub_bernoulli_lesson01_activity1
5. Education for Sustainability:
   • The Sep/Oct issue of the magazine Water is available online https://lnkd.in/gdmjZiW
   • The Hauraki Gulf Monitoring Project uses Marine Metre Squared citizen science project to survey the coastal environment. The latest State of the Gulf Report.
6. Primary & Intermediate:
   • Science Learning Hub has some resources on shadows, with respect to the sun and using materials of different transparency.
   • Weighing a dinosaur https://education.australiascience.tv/so-how-do-you-weigh-a-dinosaur
7. Nature of Science:
   • Testable questions www.shonscience.com/unit-0-scientific-inquiry1/scientific-questions-testable-questinos
   • Exploring different kinds of investigation https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/types-science-investigations

MoE/NZQA

1. MoE is seeking feedback on the draft English-medium Literacy & Numeracy Assessment Standards that have been developed as part of the NCEA Change Package. An online feedback form is available on the Ministry’s Citizen Space website until 18 Dec.

Vacancy

1. BEANZ is looking for an experienced biology teacher to facilitate PLD across the country for 2021. Funded as a year of teacher release. More info here https://beanz.org.nz/news/

Professional Learning and Development’

1. Victoria uni’s chemistry PLD – Because of a clash, Wellington’s day is now Wed 25 Nov, but Auckland & Nelson dates remain the same. Topics covered will include update on NCEA Science changes, digital/on-line (remote) learning, and research into green energy such as hydrogen technology. $40 pp. Register here https://pay.wgtn.ac.nz/SCPS2020
2. ASTA’s exam review evening will be Dec 3 at MAGS. Flyer: https://www.mikesnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ASTA-Exam-Discussions-2020.pdf

Technicians

1. Did you know the SciPADs have technician’s books? Here. These are due to be updated in 2021 – if any tech would like to help with this, especially L2 and L3 chemistry, please get in touch with jason@scipad.co.nz . It would be a paid contract.

Cheers, Mike

P.S. Next week will be the last newsletter for the year, as I am on leave from 1 Dec