NCEA Level 1 Pūtaiao case studies

NCEA Level 1 Pūtaiao · Put your knowledge to work in context.

Pūtaiao is the science subject in Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, the Māori-medium curriculum, and this NZQA page is the Māori-language version of the subject resource hub. It serves kaiako teaching the marautanga and ākonga learning within it, gathering internal and external assessment resources, achievement standards, past assessments, exemplars, assessment schedules and reports, digital assessment links, and markers' support material in one place. The NCEA Level 1 Pūtaiao case studies are 5 cases and about 5,479 words.

Five variables, one sample: what a stream survey can and cannot prove

Te awa o Te Rākau runs from a QEII-covenanted bush block, through a dairy farm, and into an estuary where the local hapū gathers pipi. A Year 11 Pūtaiao class sampled three sites once, between 10:00 and 11:00 am on 12 March, two days after 38 mm of rain: Site Temp (°C) Turbidity (NTU) E.

1,039 words, about 5 min 2

Sizing solar for Te Whare Hui: read the load profile before the invoice

Te Whare Hui marae trustees have 18,000 and a 6,400 annual power bill. The electrician's load schedule for a typical winter day is: two heat pumps drawing an average of 0.9 kW each, for 6 h; a 3 kW hot-water cylinder element, on for 4 h; a chest freezer averaging 0.15 kW for 24 h; 18 LED lights at 12 W for 5 h; a 2 kW urn, used for 30 min per day.

920 words, about 5 min 3

The rāhui question at Te Rākau Bay

Te Hapū o Te Rākau Bay has counted pāua ( Haliotis iris ) each February since 2019 on 12 permanent 1 m × 5 m belt transects, and counted boat-days at the ramp. Year Legal-size pāua per transect (mean ± 95% CI) Juvenile (<60 mm) per transect Boat-days at ramp --- --- --- --- 2019 8.9 ± 1.2 5.6 310 2021 6.4 ± 1.1 4.1 470 2023 4.8 ± 1.0 1.9 760 2024 4.1 ± 0.9 1.5 830 Context: a marine heatwave in summer 2022/23 held sea surface temperatures 2.1 °C above average for six weeks.

1,136 words, about 6 min 4

The kūmara patch: a trial that cannot answer its own question

A kura māra has four plots, each 2 m × 3 m. In September the class tested whether lime increases kūmara yield.

1,227 words, about 6 min 5

Twelve minutes to the maunga: an evacuation plan that has to work for everyone

Te Kura o Te Moana has 320 students (Years 1–8) and 28 staff, and sits 380 m from the beach inside a tsunami evacuation zone. The modelled worst case - a rupture on the offshore trench at high tide - gives 12 minutes from the end of shaking to the first wave.

1,157 words, about 6 min