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New Zealand curriculum – draft 2006–2007
Read the science curriculum learning area introduction on pages 20–21:
- The New Zealand curriculum: Draft for consultation 2006 (PDF, 2.24 MB)
- Science curriculum achievement objectives (PDF, 512.91 kB)
In science, students generate and test ideas, observe, investigate, and model in order to develop scientific knowledge, understanding, and explanations.
Science is about investigating, understanding, and explaining the natural world. The planned curriculum for science still consists of helping learners develop sound scientific understandings of the living world, the material world, the physical world, and planet Earth and beyond, but proposed some changes to better reflect the part people play as citizens in a world shaped by science.
The main change proposed was to combine the two existing integrating strands into one, tentatively named 'developing scientific competencies'. The new strand applies right across the science curriculum. Students will learn about the nature of science, types of scientific investigation, and how to make informed decisions using their knowledge of science.
While these aims existed within the current curriculum, they have been developed further and it was proposed that they become integral to the way in which science is taught.
