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Rock Your Lesson Planning: Unleash the Power of the Hub's Collections Tool!

Ever wanted an easy way to sort, classify, and annotate educational resources for your lessons? Introducing the Science Learning Hub's ingenious Collections Tool – your new BFF for seamless lesson planning!

Check out some enthralling collections here.

Discovering the Collections Tool

Curious about making the most of this marvelous tool? Check out our fun video tutorial here for some insider tips and tricks on making the best out of the Collections Tool for your classroom planning. We cover essential topics including creating collections, note functions, collaboration, sharing, and more!

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Empowering You, Inspiring Them

We've designed the Collections Tool to empower you as educators by offering various ways to organize and categorize resources. Students can use it for their class assignments or as a powerful study tool. PLD providers or school leaders can utilize it to support and inspire others with innovative ideas. Teachers can even display annotated notes on a data show projector for class visibility!

To add a resource to your collection, just click the 'Add to Collection' button on individual items. After gathering content, you can effortlessly drag-and-drop resources to rearrange them and add notes wherever you fancy!

The 'Add to Collection' Button

Don't miss out on our magical 'Add to Collection' button! With it, you can launch a new collection or add to an existing one on the Science Learning Hub. When faced with multiple resources on a landing page (e.g., a topic or concepts page), just click the bookmark icons on your desired collections, and then hit the 'Add to Collections' button!

Sudoku Collection Management with Our 'Add to Collection' Butterfly

Want to add a resource to more than one collection to simplify your life? Just click the bookmark icon! No more endless shuffling of resources - we've got your back!

Key Collection Features

📝 Notes in Collections

Add semi-private or full-blown public notes linked to resources, allowing for seamless lesson planning and organization. Boast your notes' basic formatting options, including adding embeddable external links!

Create standalone, separate notes alongside resources to jot down brilliant ideas. Simply hover your cursor over the relevant resource image and click the appropriate icon!

🔒 Public Notes

Public notes that you attach to resources will appear in a vibrant yellow panel on the resource page. These bad boys are fantastic teaching tools!

🔒 Private Notes

Create a secret storm of private notes to conceal extension ideas, answers to questions, or other teacher-only information. To ensure privacy, switch on the lock icon, turning your note to a pale orange hue.

Now the interesting part - when you set a note to private, only the title of collection(s) that your private note belongs to will display on the resource page. Clicking the lock icon can effortlessly toggle your note back to public visibility.

Don't Forget to Save!

Before you take on the world of education with your magnificent collections, remember to save your notes and rearrange your resources in whichever order suits your style best. In the event that you've dropped multiple notes for the same resource item in a collection, only the first note from your collection will show up on that resource page.

Sharing Public Collections

Build collaborative environments by sharing your hard-worked collections with friends, colleagues, or the entire world! Locking a collection (using the padlock icon on the collection title) generates a shareable link, making it easy-peasy to invade other people's collection reminiscent of cover a car in stickers. Just grab the link, copy, and paste – ta-da! Sharing is caring!

Got a shareable collection link? Giddy up and add it to your collection – simply click the copy icon! This delightful collection will then become one of your own!

Collaboration

Partner up with fellow educators and work together in real-time on a collection by clicking the friendly people icon. Enter an email address and hit 'Invite'. The lucky recipient will receive an email from enquiries@our website with an access link to jump on board the new collection!

HELPFUL TIP: If the invitee isn't seeing the email, double-check the email address and scan those spam/junk folders.

Once they've joined your harmony, a charming icon representing them will appear in your collection. Unleash the power of teamwork and create intellectual masterpieces together! Just be mindful – if you see their icon near a note, that means they're currently doing their thing. Show some patience until they're done and their icon disappears.

Get Up Close and Personal with Your Collections

Keep a close eye on what's hot in your collection – privates, publics, and playtime partners, all at a glance!

Creative Copying: Public Collections Evolve

Roam free and clone public collections created by the Science Learning Hub team to make them your own. To do this, click the friendly copy icon at the top of the collection. If you're signed in, this action will effortlessly create a replica copy of the collection tucked away in your profile. Remember to rename your collection to fit your particular style – then go wild customizing it according to your needs!

The following collections have been lovingly curated and crafted by the Hub team, ripe for customization and breeding:

• 1080 and the wicked problem of predator control
• 3, 2, 1 . . . Lift off! (This collection supports the House of Science Rockets Ngā Tākirirangi kit – it's cool for everyone exploring the universe through the lens of rockets!)
• The air around us
• Animals of Aotearoa
• Antarctica (This delightful collection supports the House of Science Antarctica resource kit – providing insights into the continent's flora, fauna, and its vital role in our oceans and climate systems!)
• Antimicrobial resistance resources
• Autumn science
• Big Blue Future (This exciting collection supports the House of Science Big Blue Future project – inspiration for protecting our beautiful oceans!)
• Bilingual and reo Māori infographics and diagrams
• Biodiversity - estuaries and marine ecosystems
• Biosecurity
• Birds
• Bringing back the birdsong
• Clean water and sanitation - supporting UN SDG 6 (One of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals – educate yourself on clean water, supporting communities in New Zealand and worldwide!)
• Citizen science
• Climate change - the basics
• Climate change education - primary & Climate change education - secondary (Don't sweat the heat! Brush up on your climate change education!)
• Climate change (Dive deep into the realm of climate change, ocean acidification, sea and land water changes, and other related topics affecting our beautiful planet!)
• Clear the air (This collection supports the House of Science 'Clear the Air' kit – knowledge is power, so knowledge up on air quality!)
• Climate change (HoS) (Explore what is climate change, ocean acidification, sea and land water, cultural reasons for environmental changes in Māori communities, and ideas for tackling these challenges in the classroom!)
• Design a satellite mission to help fight climate change (Let your imagination soar in designing a satellite mission that addresses climate change!)
• Discovering DNA (This collection covers themes focusing on genetics, DNA extraction, forensics, whakapapa, and solving environmental puzzles!)
• Discovering new species (Adventure awaits! Witness the secrets of Fred the Thread, exploring the scientific process of discovering new species!)
• Early years resources
• Earthquakes (Strap in and explore the mind-boggling world inside our Earth – learn about plate tectonics, seismic waves, and engineering equipped to keep us safe!)
• eDNA (Discover the science behind identifying species via environmental DNA samples – locally relevant, globally fascinating!)
• Electricity
• Exploring space - resources for years 5/6
• Flight and the science capabilities for NZC levels 1-3
• Forest health (Unleash your inner tree-hugger – investigate native trees, kauri dieback, and myrtle rust, all while safeguarding Aotearoa's forests!)
• Friction - the contact force that slows or stops moving objects
• Fun science (Hands-on, science-based fun activities for kids and adults alike!)
• Gardens
• How we see the world (Curious about light, color, and human eyesight? Discover these fascinating topics and more in our 'How we see the world' collection!)
• The human heart and circulation system (Ever wondered what keeps you alive? Jump into the fascinating world of the human heart and circulation system!)
• Kaitiakitanga and moths
• Land (Explore the complex world beneath your feet – dive into soil health, water quality, and environmental management!)
• Learning at home - Galileo: exploring simple physics, engineering and astronomy, and the nature of science
• Learning at home - river catchments and connections
• Light and color
• Light and shadows
• A load of rubbish (Educate yourself on the importance of proper waste management and the circular economy in our collections' 'A load of rubbish' adventure!)
• Low cost, low risk, big wow activities
• Māori concepts for animal ethics
• Matariki and Environment Aotearoa 2022 – each whetū in the Matariki cluster is linked to a part of the environment. This collection provides additional context and pedagogical insights.
• Matariki picture books and science resources – supporting the Picturebooks for Matariki webinar.
• Microscopes
• Mighty microbes (Become a microbe master with the Science Learning Hub's 'Mighty Microbeshop' collection!)
• Moo to You (Calling all dairy enthusiasts! Explore the wonders of dairy products and dairy farming in our 'Moo to You' collection!)
• Oneone - soils (Join us on an exploration of soil and primary production with the Agricultural and Horticultural Science 1.3 pilot program!)
• Opportunities for using te reo Māori
• Our atmosphere and climate 2020
• The periodic table of elements
• Physics - force and motion
• Science capabilities
• Science Roadshow 2024 (This collection hosts a wealth of resources supporting the activities in the Science Roadshow resource booklet!)
• Science Roadshow 2025 (Geared up for the Science Roadshow? Get your giggle on with some fun activities, informative videos, and valuable articles in our Science Roadshow 2025 collection!)
• Sea science and plastic
• Simple machines (Find joy in uncovering the complexities of simple machines with us in the Simple Machines Delight)
• Sound - lower primary
• States of matter and why they matter
• Summer science
• Rongoā Māori
• Te repo/wetlands
• Takahē - conservation and ecology
• Takahē - science capabilities
• Tātai arorangi - Astronomical knowledge
• Te pūngao puia - Geothermal energy
• Viruses and the immune system
• Volcanoes - Puia (Explore the fiery heart of our Earth in our 'Volcanoes - Puia' escapade!)
• Water analysis (Ever tested water quality? Get aquatinted with water analysis and waterway health in this engaging collection!)
• Water quality
• Waves PLD resources
• Working in the space sector

Still Stumped?

Got questions? Ask the team at enquiries@our website for further assistance. Find out more about how we curate resources using both the Collections Tool and Pinterest here.

1. Exploring the Science Learning Hub's Collections Tool, you can take advantage of its features, such as creating, rearranging, and annotating various educational resources for seamless lesson planning. [gadgets: Resources, technology: Collections Tool]
2. The Collections Tool is not only useful for teachers but also students who can use it for class assignments or as a powerful study tool, and for PLD providers or school leaders to support and inspire others with innovative ideas. [gadgets: Collections Tool, technology: purpose]

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