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ARB newsletter June 2015 - Welcome to the new ARB website

Kia ora koutou

At the end of June the old ARB website will be archived.

This means you will not be able to access the old website after June 30 2015.

All NZ teachers and educationalists are asked to use the new ARB website at arbs.nzcer.org.nz.

Hopefully, you have already registered for your personal username and password on the new website: arbs.nzcer.org.nz/register

The new website comes with a number of new features:

Individual, personalised teacher accounts.
My folder - where you can save collections of your favourite resources and quickly find them for future use.

World Water Day - 22nd March - Assessment Resource Banks

World Water Day (March 22)
UNESCO’s World Water Day is on the 22nd of March. The theme this year is "water for sustainable development". There are seven aspects - health, nature, urbanization, industry, energy, food, and equality.

Science ARB resources provide support for exploring some of these aspects.

Nature

Four resources on the Assessment Resource Banks (ARB) focus on freshwater ecosystems.

What lives in our waterways?

Students complete drawings of things found in or near a waterway, and describe relationships between them.

Waterways tag

Seaweek, and 2015 International Year of Light

Kia ora and welcome to the first Assessment Resource Banks newsletter from our new website at https://arbs.nzcer.org.nz.

Coming up ...

We now have over 2250 resources published on the new site. Of these about 250 can be completed online as well as by pencil and paper. Our plan is to bring across all the exisiting ARBs to the new site, and re-develop some resources so they can also be completed online.

Please note: Registration for the old arb website will close at the end of this year as we migrate to the new site.

Welcome to the new ARB website

Kia ora and welcome to the first Assessment Resource Banks newsletter from our new website at https://arbs.nzcer.org.nz.

We now have over 1400 resources published on the new site. Of these about 300 can be completed online as well as by pencil and paper.

What's new?

When a volcano erupts

Mount Tongariro from the air — Tongaririo (c) Philip Capper, 2008, FlickR (Attribution).

On the 6th August 2012 Mount Tongariro erupted sending an ash cloud of approximately 10,000 cubic metres that was identified in Napier and Wellington.

The ARBs have several assessment resources that look at warning signs, volcanic eruption process, parts of a volcano, activity and dangers of an eruption, and the spread of ash.

Seaweek 2013 March 2nd - 10th

Makara baech, Wellington — Makara, Wellington (c) J.Fisher, www.PhotoKete.co.nz

This year's theme is Toiora te moana, toiora te tangata - healthy seas, healthy people. It promotes thinking about the relationship of people (ngā tangata) to the sea (te moana).

This selection of ARB resources may be useful for incorporating some science into your Seaweek activities. The tasks can be completed either individually or in groups, and make good starting points for discussions about what makes a healthy ocean and how we can manage that.

Earthquakes

On Sunday 21st July 2013 a sizeable earthquake occurred in the middle of New Zealand.

This was one of a swarm of earthquakes.

seismograph

Here are some resources that feature earthquakes. They address science, English and maths knowledge and skills.

Using the resources

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