LENScience
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Context-Embedded Learning
Learning centred on exploration of a socio-scientific context. Supporting capability development across the curriculum.
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Healthy Start to Life Education for Adolescents Project
Learning experiences that engage students in exploration of socioscientific issues linked to health and wellbeing.
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Gut Bugs: Exploring the Human Microbiome
Resources for learning about the human microbiome through the highly-publicised Gut Bugs trial.
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Kai no te Oraanga Meitaki
Ko Au e Toku Aorangi: Kai no te Oraanga Meitaki. Exploring the importance of nutrition for wellbeing in the Cook Islands
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Classroom Posters
Using classroom wall space to support visual learners
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Bio-Protection Modules
These mini-modules explore issues around sustainable agriculture and environmental protection.
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Senior Biology Learning Resources
These resources are designed to aid learning for senior secondary school students.
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My Food, My Future
These learning resources explore issues around food labelling and its effect on the community.
Teaching and Learning Resources
The LENScience Teaching and Learning Modules provide schools with the opportunity to develop learning experiences for 11 - 18 year olds that foster science and health literacy via exploration of socioscientific issues and the work of scientists contributing towards solutions to these issues.
Partnerships for Learning
The LENScience learning modules are designed to be implemented by schools working in partnership with the Liggins Institute and our partner tertiary organisations. The modules use a context-embedded inquiry learning approach. They are designed to support the development of understanding of the nature and process of science as well as relevant concepts of science through exploration of a context. In most cases the context is linked to a socioscientific issue of relevance to adolescents.
Central to each of the learning modules are stories of science and scientists, enabling connections with the culture of science. Links between the context, the work of the science community and the lives of the students and their communities supports adolescents to identify the relevance of the learning to their lives.
Teacher professional learning and development resources are provided to support exploration of the pedagogy and the science associated with each module. Central to effective use of the modules is the in-school process of linking the learning modules into the school programme and the local community setting.
