BEANZ TERM 1 Newsletter 2023

In this edition
* President’s Report
* What Can BEANZ Offer Members?
* Your BEANZ Executive
* Research Project request for help
* Your Regional Representatives
* BEANZ Practice Exams are Free
* Resources offered by BEANZ
* Maurice Wilkins Centre PD Days
* Mātauranga Māori Workshops
* Prime Minister’s Science Teacher Prize
* Science Teaching Leadership Program – Follow Up
* NZ International Biology Olympiad
– a report
* Feature Article – From the Smallest of Bones Come the Biggest of Secrets
DownloadIn this edition …
P1 President’s Report
P2 Obituary – Helen Mora
P3 Your BEANZ Executive
P3 Introducing and Exec Member
P4 Your Regional Representatives
P5 Workshops Available in 2022
P5 BEANZ Level 3 Exams are Free
P6 Chem Ed/ Biolive Conference 2022
P7 BEANZ Conference Scholarships
P7 Sharing the Mahi
* Emily Tighe’s Bee Resource
* Ngā Manu Nature Reserve Field
Trip
* Mātauranga – it’s not that scary!!!
In this edition …
P1 President’s Report
P2 Your BEANZ Executive
P3 Sharyn Varcoe – Executive member
P3 What can BEANZ offer members?
P4 Regional Representatives
P5 Introducing Stephen Williams – our new BEANZ Facilitator
P5 BEANZ Exams are free! (if you are registered!)
P6 Science Teaching Leadership Program
P7 Crazy About Bees – BEANZ Scholarship outcome.
P7 KNZB Sustainable School Award
P9 Sharing the Mahi: Linda Haycock, Trudy Gee, William Chen.
P11 Feature Article – Palaeogenomics comes of age
DownloadAttention Biology Teachers BEANZ Regional Representatives needed in
Gisborne
Porirua / Hutt Valley
Southland
Looking for your next challenge? Or perhaps an opportunity to give something back to the biology community?
Regional representatives are a key link between biology teachers in their region and play a key role in facilitating professional development opportunities with support and input from BEANZ.
Gerd Banke is BEANZ Regional Representative for Nelson Marlborough. In her words being a BEANZ Rep means, “being a sounding board for the region” where you “get to collaborate with some of the country’s most inspiring Biology teachers when we meet during our National huis and plan the regional workshops”
If you are from one of the three regions mentioned and are interested in taking up this position, or would like more information contact Mikhal Stone (BEANZ Regional Rep Liaison) at: mikhal@actrix.co.nz
A job description is available here:
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If you are looking for your BEANZ representative for your region, find it here. They would love to hear about you and exciting things you are doing in your classroom.
DownloadP1 President’s Report
P2 Your BEANZ Executive
P3 Ben Himme – Executive member
P3 Bio Teachers Facebook Page: A Treasure Trove
P4 Regional Representatives
P5 BEANZ Providing Lock Down Support
P5 The New Look BEANZ
P6 Sharing the Mahi – Yvonne Caulfield
P7 Sharing the Mahi – Angie Fox
P9 BEANZ Research Scholarship
P10 Genetics resources from Thierry Lints
-Unlocking Life’s Code
-The Genomic Revolution
P11 Feature Article – Land of the Chonky Birds Nic Rawlence
In this edition …
P1 President’s Comments
P2 Your BEANZ Executive
P2 Introducing Penny Daddy
P3 BioLive 2021 Conference postponed
P4 Regional Representatives
P5 Network of Expertise Update
P6 Vacancy for Regional Reps
P6-7 NZ BioOlympiad
P8-9 BEANZ Exams
P10 Sharing Your Mahi
P10 Scholarship Tutorial Report
P11 Skeletons in the Closet
P12 Plants Unit incorporating Mātauranga Maori
P12 Investigating Vascular Systems in Plants
P13 Unlocking Life’s Code
P14 BEANZ Facilitator Role
P15 BEANZ Research Scholarship
P16 Feature Article Extinction Crisis – Nic Rawlence
DownloadIn addition to a version of the resource created for teachers, GIM is also developing a University micro-credential course for educators wanting to expand their understanding of genomics. If interested, please contact t.lints@auckland.ac.nz.
To obtain this resource click download below.
A teacher version complete with notes and answers is available from ….
… Allan Smith, BEANZ National Administrator admin@beanz.org.nz
DownloadIn this edition …
P1 President’s Report
P2 Your Executive
P2 introducing Erica Jar
P3 BioliveChemEd Conference details
P4 Conference program
P5 Conference scholarships
P5 Regional Representatives
P6 Maatauranga Workshops
P7 NZ BioOlympiad (NZBIO)
P9 Sharing the Mahi
P9 CSTA Exams Available
P10 BEANZ Research
Scholarship 2021
P11 BEANZ L3 Practice Exams
P13 BEANZ Facilitator Job advertisement
P14 Feature article – Lost in Translation or Deliberate Falsifications?
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