All News from May 2012

• Alert Newsletter 719

  Posted: Wed, 30 May 2012 under Alert Newsletter, News

  Subscribe to Alert   1. Join discussion on how science can improve New Zealand The Transit of Venus Forum is taking place next week from… Read more…

   

• CREST “Show and Tell” at Wellington High School

  

  Posted: Thu, 24 May 2012 under CREST News

  Wellington High School students Oska Rego, Morgan Christy Jones, Rachel Linton and Hazel Osborne give a presentation about their respective Silver and Gold CREST projects. Read more…

   

• Alert Newsletter 718

  Posted: Wed, 23 May 2012 under Alert Newsletter, News

  Subscribe to Alert 1. Primary and secondary teachers out of classroom on science fellowships Primary and secondary teachers from all around the country are spending… Read more…

   

• Teachers taking leave from schools to research science, mathematics and technology topics relevant to everyday life

  Posted: Wed, 23 May 2012 under Media Releases

  Thirteen secondary teachers from throughout New Zealand are investigating topics as diverse as motorhome design, conservation sanctuaries, marine organisms in Doubtful Sound, sustainable building practices… Read more…

   

• Gold CRESTer attends NZIBO Training and Selection Camp

  

  Posted: Wed, 23 May 2012 under CREST News

  Congratulations to Gold CRESTer Apurva Kasture, from Palmerston North Girls High School, who attended the recent 2012 NZIBO (New Zealand International Biology Olympiad) Training and Selection Camp at the University of Waikato. Read more…

   

• Programme underway to improve science teaching in primary schools

  Posted: Mon, 21 May 2012 under Media Releases

  With the quality of science teaching in primary schools in New Zealand under the spotlight, thirteen primary school teachers are part way through a teacher… Read more…

   

• Our Changing World: Primary Science Teaching

  Posted: Fri, 18 May 2012 under Advancing Primary Science News

  The state of primary school science teaching has been in the news recently, but there are some strong efforts being made to improve matters and increase teacher confidence. Read more…

   

• Alert Newsletter 717

  Posted: Thu, 17 May 2012 under Alert Newsletter

  Subscribe to Alert 1. New Emerging Issues paper: Future Marine Resource Use We have published a new paper that highlights the vast extent of our… Read more…

   

• Primary Science Education:Teacher Confidence

  Posted: Thu, 17 May 2012 under Advancing Primary Science News

  A Radio NZ - National, Nine to Noon( broadcast 14 May 2012) with Kathryn Ryan, Richard Meylan (RSNZ), Peter Lind (Teachers' Council and Steven Sexton (NZASE) about Teacher confidence in the teaching of science in NZ Primary Schools. Read more…

   

• Generating sustainable wealth from vast ocean resources requires careful approach

  Posted: Tue, 15 May 2012 under Media Releases

  Generating sustainable wealth from New Zealand’s vast ocean resources requires us to proceed carefully, according to a new paper produced by the Royal Society of… Read more…