Friday 27 June 2014

Back in Wellington


19-20 June

 

We had our last set of curriculum focus days. We focused on the capability of ‘critiquing evidence’. Mostly it means you need to repeat or replicate experiments so you can gather enough data to come out with a representative average. It also means you have to look at a range of data to look for abnormalities, as it may mean the method wasn’t done correctly.

 

We also looked at a bit of transition back to school ideas. One of the tutors was away so we had Michael Fenton as a guest tutor. He used to do this programme but now he runs the open polytech science teaching diploma course. As he said, they gave us seeds of ideas, a bit of a look-see into several ideas. One of the ideas was a science table of curious objects.
our science table of curiosities

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a test of the power of air!
...and the strength of balloons?
 

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