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Te tapa ingoa

This Connected article by Priscilla Wehi and Hemi Whaanga explores how early Māori named and grouped the plants and animals they found around them. Discover what this process reveals about Māori ...

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Ruminant digestion

Ruminants are mammals with specialised digestive systems that use fermentation processes to gain nutrients from plant material. Cattle, sheep, horses, deer, goats and camels are all ruminants ...

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Ngā mātauranga me te whakamahi a te Māori i ngā hekaheka ...

He whānui te mōhio o ngā tūpuna ki ngā hekaheka me ngā tini painga o ētahi. Ko ētahi he kai, ko ētahi he rongoā, ko ētahi hei tā moko, ko ētahi hei tahu ahi. Te hekaheka ka whakamahia mō te tā ...

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Using weather data

The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) gathers weather data throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. NIWA and its predecessors have been gathering this information for decades ...

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Atoms and molecules
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States of matter
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Changes of matter
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Models in science
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Our Solar System – revolutionary ideas

Since the earliest times, humans have made observations of the night sky. These observations, particularly of the Earth, Moon, Sun and planets (visible to the naked eye), led to the development ...

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Constellations in the night sky

In this activity, students learn about star constellations and that various cultures have their own names and legends about them. They will appreciate that identifying constellations and ...

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Colours of light

Light is made up of wavelengths of light, and each wavelength is a particular colour. The colour we see is a result of which wavelengths are reflected back to our eyes. Visible light Visible ...

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Resources with Māori content

Teachers often ask what Māori content is available on the Science Learning Hub. We have a wide range of resources including articles, teaching and learning activities and videos. The Hub also has ...

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Living World – Insects

Here are links to Science Learning Hub resources for primary teachers related to insects in the Living World strand of the New Zealand Curriculum. Investigate insects found in New Zealand to ...

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Visit to a lavender farm – case study

A Year 9 class visited a local lavender farm as part of a biotechnology unit investigating the production, packaging and marketing of lavender oil for aromatherapy. The purpose of the field trip ...

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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
Auckland

Horizons – A 2022 space odyssey

Having set two Guinness World Records with his previous sell-out World Tour, Professor Brian Cox is back with a brand-new live-on-stage show in 2022. Horizons takes audiences on a dazzling ...

26/02/2022 - 03/03/2022
Wellington

NZIP & Physikos 2021

The 18th Conference of the New Zealand Institute of Physics, incorporating Physikos, the New Zealand Physics Teachers Conference will occur this July. As much as ever, a strong community of ...

12/07/2021 - 14/07/2021
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