Stuffing the New Y9 Science Curriculum | Carmen Kenton

Reposted from My Preproom by Carmen Kenton

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.

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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

• Ecosystems and Kaitiakitanga

  
  

As a Canterbury school, AF8 (Alpine Fault 8) is a good local context and we already have a unit that will go with that nicely, with some tweaks. I liked the Kaitiakitanga part of the ecosystems context, but...

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Stuffing the New Y9 Science Curriculum, by Carmen Kenton, can be read for free with no sign-ins or special accounts. Carmen, an experienced secondary science kaiako based in Ōtautahi, offers sharp insight into the realities of the new Y9 science curriculum. Bay Science extends a huge mihi and thanks to kaiako like Carmen who generously share their whakaaro to support colleagues across Aotearoa.