The noisy reef takes us under the waves to the reefs of New Zealand to explore sound and noise under water. Using this unique habitat, we look at what sound is, how it travels, what changes under ...
The reefs of New Zealand are noisy places, not the silent world that many of us imagine. The animals that live on reefs, such as shrimp, kina and fish, all have their distinctive sounds, and this ...
Kina are a particular species of sea urchin endemic to New Zealand. Most of us can identify a kina shell found on a beach as a mottled green globe (sometimes intact) with a hole in the base. When ...
In this activity, students model how sound travels by sending waves along two stretched plastic slinkies tied together. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: understand that ...
In this activity, students take part in a class experiment to locate sounds when blindfolded. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: design a sound location experiment and ...
in this activity, a class or group of students create several soundscapes to gain a greater appreciation of how background sound differs from one geographical setting to another. By the end of ...
In this recorded professional learning session, Greta Dromgool and Ted Cizadlo will build your confidence to teach about the Physical World. The New Zealand Curriculum achievement objectives for ...
Join Karen Parker from Tahuna Normal Intermediate School and Greta Dromgool from the Science Learning Hub in a session which will introduce you to Vision 20/20, an exciting Participatory Science ...
In this recorded professional learning session, Greta Dromgool and educators from the New Zealand Association of Primary Science Educators (NZAPSE) explore fun ways you can learn and teach about ...
This animated video of a ripple moving out from a central source helps us visualise how sound waves radiate out in all directions from a vibrating source.
Dr Bronwyn Lowe describes how her confidence as a scientist has developed. Bronwyn sees science as being like a language with its own vocabulary and grammar. Once you’re fluent in the language of ...
This is an edited recording of the webinar Vision 20/20.
This slideshow, from the webinar Vision 20/20, provides additional support for the webinar video. Use the slideshow menu for further options, including view full screen, and go here for the ...
This interactive shows the mechanisms of human taste. Select here to go the transcript.
This slideshow from the webinar Physics made simple – waves provides additional support for the video tutorial.
