Making progress in Science Levels 1-4

NMSSA -used to be called national monitoring
collaboration with NZCR and Ministry, assesses children across the country, every 4 years with a new assessment, last one was in 2017
Makes sure that this works at school, tests are self trilled, a lot of schools are involved in the process

Understanding about science- focus on scientist's work (what does scientist do? gather evidence, interpret data, use evidence and critique evidence

Investigating in science 

Communicating in science: how scientist represent their world- use particular diagram, models, food chains, food web,

Participating and contributing   when they can take action, if they look at rubbish at school, positives and negative, and think about how they can make changes? 

Rubbing rulers and picking up paper: Physical world
Data table ticks and crosses, produced data and looked at it, and what is the pattern?
counting the ticks and crosses

what made thing jump? rubbing 2 things together
What were they doing in nature of science? Investigating science- students were doing this.
gathering data
looking deeper into that

Science capabilities that we need to look at

Looking for patterns - observations and investigations  try this as regular learning opportunities 

Measurement: investigating in science? Interpret representations

Looking at the pictures-using evidence (looking at photos) 

Assessing the exploration 
Elimination the different items, testing, checking, hypothesising, building a great evidence,
Trust the scientist that has the evidence  
Plastic against rubber 
Systematic exploration 

How do you know? 
Are you sure? How sure are you? 

Looking at particular features, scientific features, looking at more features 
It fits in the palm of my hand, if you draw the outline of the shell

Measurement in terms of sophistications ( using a ruler to measure- top of the line.) 

Creating the rainbow

We want them to explore and be curious at Level 2. Not to be assessed.
Posters- rainbow diagrams with simple language

Diabetic course at the hospital

As we have a child who has a type 1 diabetes, I went to do the training at the hospital. I have had a child with Type 1 in a previous centre and have done the same course before so I was familiar with the contents but it was very refreshing to do this again and bring back the memory. I have also learnt some new things, and this time we were able to do the GlucaGen training as well.