Stuffing the new Y9 Sci curriculum
Gosh, it's been a while since I last posted. This NZC draft has got my pen out. Today I tried to stuff the Y9 curriculum list of content into something myself and our department might be happy to teach. We are a context-based department with a deep and lived connection to our cultural narrative. We have been teaching content within a Nature of Science framework and assessing through NOS for 7 years. I really feel like I am stuffing the content into some contexts our rangatahi might be interested in. Much like you have to stuff a tent back into the bag it came out of so you can do the zip up. There is sooo much to stuff in. After staring at it all and trying to make my mind bend to all 10 pages of it! I couldn't keep enough of it in my head to make any out any contextual patterns. So, I went to my trusty critical friend AI (Copilot) to help. Initially, AI came up with the following contexts Hazards and pressure (AF8) Matter and Materials Life's logistics Ecosystem...