LENScience
Links to Curriculum and Assessment of Learning
This page informs teachers on how these resources link to the New Zealand curriculum.
These Resources Support Teaching and Learning and Link to the New Zealand Curriculum: Science Learning Areas:
Level 7 |
Levels 7 & 8 |
Level 8 |
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Nature of Science |
Understanding About Science: Understand that scientists have an obligation to connect their new ideas to current and historical scientific knowledge and to present their findings for peer review and debate
Participating and Contributing: Use relevant information to develop a coherent understanding of socio-scientific issues that concern them, to identify possible responses at both personal and societal levels |
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Living World |
Evolution: Understand that DNA and the environment interact in gene expression
Ecology and Evolution: Explain how the interaction between ecological factors and natural selection leads to genetic changes within populations |
Life Processes, Ecology and Evolution: Understand the relationship between organisms and their environment
Understand how humans manipulate the transfer of genetic information from one generation to the next and make informed judgements about the social, ethical and biological implications relating to this manipulation |
These Resources Support Teaching and Learning and Link to the Marautanga O Aotearoa
Pūtaiao:
- Te Ao Tūroa: Te Rauropi: Taumata 6-8
- Ngā Tautake Pūtaiao me ngā Kōrero-o Mua: Taumata 6-8
These Resources Link to the Following NCEA 2 Biology Achievement Standard
- AS91159 Biology 2.7: Demonstrate understanding of gene expression
Use the resources on this page together with resources on the Feast or Famine: Understanding Gene Expression web pages to support contextual and NoS-integrated learning for this external achievement standard.
These Resources Link to the Following NCEA 3 Biology Achievement Standard
- AS91607 Biology 3.7: Demonstrate understanding of human manipulations of genetic transfer and its biological implications
For this achievement standard, human manipulations of genetic transfer may involve investigation and modification of the expression of existing genes. Biological implications may involve the impact on the health or survival of individuals.
