Science BT Course

How? When? How often?
Nature of science is the only compulsory strand, the rest are expected to be taught at least once in the time between year 0-8.

Why is science part of the school curriculum?
- participate as critical, informed and responsible citizens in a society in which science plays a significant role.

Experiment
- Ice ball (frozen balloon)
- Salt
- Food colouring
Make inferences first.
What did you notice? Making scientific observations.
Wonderings - what are you curious about? what questions do you want to know?

Things to think about:
- Hands on, minds on
- Nature of science/capabilities
- I notice, I think, I wonder

Making scientific observations
- Using senses to make observations of what is in front of you. How do we help our kids not just to access prior knowledge, but just to notice what is in front of you.
- Reframing the language to make it scientifically accurate during their observations.
- The data that they can collect is right in front of you, what are the observations you can make from just looking at it.
- Draw on the whiteboard what they are telling you to highlight what they have told you, and what they havent. This encourages them to drop in more descriptive language to make their noticings more accurate.

Science Learning Hub
- Developing an eagle eye https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/search?term=developing%20an%20eagle%20eye 
- Using Science to teach other curriculum areas for example, measurement.

Mystery Box
- Only using your eyes to make observations.
- Scrambled Sentences - Set of cards, place all the cards face down so you cant read the words, and mix them up (Science Learning Hub activity).

Capabilities
- What am I getting better at doing?
- Functions students engage with (Key competencies for science).
- Gather and interpret data, use evidence, critique evidence, interpret representations, engage with science.