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Activity key

Lvl Curriculum level
CS Contextual strand
Living world icon. Living world
Material world icon. Material world
Physical world icon. Physical world
Planet Earth and beyond icon. Planet Earth and beyond
Understanding about science icon. Understanding about science
Investigating in science icon. Investigating in science
Communicating in science icon. Communicating in science
Participating and contributing icon. Participating and contributing

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Nature of science teaching activities

The nature of science strand is the overarching and unifying strand.

The teaching activities in this section provide examples of how you might adapt other activities to meet the aims of the nature of science strand and progress your students' understanding of science.

The nature of science strand has four achievement aims :

  • understanding about science
  • investigating in science
  • communicating in science
  • participating and contributing.

The aims provide a focus for your teaching and for your students' learning about the nature of science. Rather than teaching these separately, most activities involve more than one of these aspects.

The table below lists one or more achievement aims from the nature of science as a major focus for the activity.

37 activities.

Lvl NoS CS Topic Activity
5-6 Investigating in science icon. Participating and contributing icon. Material world icon. Antarctica, States of Matter Floating ice predictions
6-8 Understanding about science icon. Living world icon. Applied biological principles Trace elements and land use: Why the Kaingaroa Forest isn’t grassland
5-6 Investigating in science icon. Communicating in science icon. Material world icon. Atoms, ions and molecules Selecting models of atoms
5-6 Understanding about science icon. Communicating in science icon. Material world icon. Atoms, ions, molecules Models of the atom from Democritus to Rutherford
5-6 Understanding about science icon. Planet Earth and beyond icon. Earth science Plate tectonics (1/2): birth of a theory
5-6 Understanding about science icon. Planet Earth and beyond icon. Earth science Plate tectonics (2/2): evolution of a theory
1-2 Investigating in science icon. Communicating in science icon. Material world icon. Electricity/metals Which of these materials make the light go on?
3-4 Understanding about science icon. Participating and contributing icon. Living world icon. Planet Earth and beyond icon. Environmental studies Establishing priorities for solving problems
4-6 Investigating in science icon. Participating and contributing icon. Living world icon. Planet Earth and beyond icon. Environmental studies Investigating ways to clean up oil spills
3-4 Participating and contributing icon. Living world icon. Planet Earth and beyond icon. Environmental studies Ranking environmental problems
7-8 Investigating in science icon. Material world icon. Environmental studies Using a model to simulate oil pollution
3-5 Investigating in science icon. Physical world icon. Forces in action How far can we stretch things?
6 Understanding about science icon. Living world icon. Health Researching bacterial cultures and antibiotics
3-4 Investigating in science icon. Material world icon. Physical world icon. Heat transfer Investigating heat transfer by conduction
1-2 Investigating in science icon. Communicating in science icon. Living world icon. Insects and Spiders Which ones are spiders?
6-8 Investigating in science icon. Physical world icon. Light intensity Light intensity attenuation
3-4 Investigating in science icon. Physical world icon. Magnetism Magnets: what can magnetism pass through?
3-4 Understanding about science icon. Investigating in science icon. Physical world icon. Magnetism Magnets: what patterns can a magnetic field make?
3-4 Communicating in science icon. Living world icon. Rocky Shore Constructing diagrams of food chains
1-2 Investigating in science icon. Communicating in science icon. Living world icon. Rocky Shore Grouping rocky shore animals
5-6 Understanding about science icon. Participating and contributing icon. Living world icon. Rocky shore Scientific knowledge and Māori knowledge about mussel biology
6-7 Understanding about science icon. Investigating in science icon. Living world icon. Rocky Shore Surveying beach populations using transects
5-6 Understanding about science icon. Planet Earth and beyond icon. Space Changing theories about Mars
5-6 Understanding about science icon. Planet Earth and beyond icon. Space Conflicting theories for the origin of the Moon
3-4 Understanding about science icon. Planet Earth and beyond icon. Space Different stories about the Moon: Rona me te Mārama
7-8 Understanding about science icon. Planet Earth and beyond icon. Space How science ideas change over time
3-4 Understanding about science icon. Planet Earth and beyond icon. Space Using binoculars to view the Moon
4-6 Understanding about science icon. Investigating in science icon. Planet Earth and beyond icon. Space Using models to understand how craters are formed
4-6 Understanding about science icon. Communicating in science icon. Planet Earth and beyond icon. Space Using online models to understand the phases of the Moon
4-5 Understanding about science icon. Investigating in science icon. Material world icon. Sports studies Factors affecting ball bounce
3-4 Understanding about science icon. Investigating in science icon. Living world icon. Sports Studies Fitness testing using pulse rates
5-6 Investigating in science icon. Living world icon. Sports studies Joint injuries: sampling and statistics
5-6 Communicating in science icon. Living world icon. Sports studies Models of the heart
3-4 Investigating in science icon. Material world icon. Physical world icon. Sports Studies Predicting the behaviour of a bouncing ball
4-5 Understanding about science icon. Investigating in science icon. Material world icon. Physical world icon. States of matter Why does popcorn pop?
3-4 Understanding about science icon. Investigating in science icon. Material world icon. Types of materials Substances (1/2): carrying out common diagnostic tests
3-4 Understanding about science icon. Investigating in science icon. Material world icon. Types of materials Substances (2/2): identifying mysterious substances

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