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Why climate change matters to Māori

Climate change threatens the loss of culturally significant land, taonga species and resources affecting the perpetuity of mātauranga and tikanga Māori. Ka mura, ka muri – walking backwards into ...

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Watching the Weather

‘Watching the Weather’ is a Connected journal that explores multiple aspects of weather in New Zealand. In addition to weather, the issue has a focus on the Nature of Science strand of the New Zealand ...

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The marshmallow challenge

The marshmallow challenge is an ideal introduction to several key aspects of innovation – idea generation, collaboration, creativity and teamwork. It‘s a simple experiential activity where teams ...

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Investigating sunscreens

In this activity, students use UV beads to investigate the effectiveness of different sunscreen lotions. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: explain the connection between UV ...

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Rongoā Māori

Rongoā is the traditional Māori healing system. Rongoā is a holistic practice that often includes using the medicinal properties of New Zealand native plants. Early Māori and rongoā Although ...

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Relative dating

Relative dating is used to arrange geological events, and the rocks they leave behind, in a sequence. The method of reading the order is called stratigraphy (layers of rock are called strata) ...

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Skateboards made out of harakeke?

Professor Kim Pickering from the School of Engineering at the University of Waikato was the winner of the 2008 KuDos Award for Environmental Science, sponsored by Environment Waikato. Kim’s research ...KuDos

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Climate change resources – planning pathways

Climate change is one of the world’s big issues. It is also a big topic to tackle in the classroom. The Hub’s planning pathways interactive suggests ways in which climate change can be broken ...

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Planet Earth and Beyond – Weather

Weather is ever present, ever changing and always interesting. Have a look at these Science Learning Hub links to see how they might fit in to your weather unit. General weather concepts and ...

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Unit plans for primary teachers

These unit plans come as Word document downloads that can be easily modified to suit your students’ learning needs or used as they are. Butterflies (lower primary) Learn about native and introduced ...

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World Conference on Marine Biodiversity

The world conference on marine biodiversity (WCMB) welcomes presentations on all aspects of marine biodiversity, both fundamental and applied sciences. This year, the WCMB will be fully virtual ...

13/12/2020 - 16/12/2020
Bay of Plenty

Advanced materials and nanotechnology (AMN10)

The tenth biannual conference on advanced materials and nanotechnology (AMN10) will be held in February 2022 in Rotorua. The conference series is interdisciplinary and covers a broad variety of ...

31/01/2022 - 04/02/2022
Wellington

Once in a full moon

Join puppeteer Anna Bailey for a free te taiao themed show. One evening deep in the New Zealand bush a lonely kiwi looks up at the sky and mistakes the full moon for a giant egg. A magical string ...

16/12/2020
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