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Waste – a growing challenge!

Every New Zealander generates about 735 kilograms of waste per year – an amount that has increased approximately 20% over the last 3 years. Most waste produced in New Zealand is buried in ...

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Fire risk assessment

In this activity, students identify and define fire risks, outdoors and indoors, using a provided image of a rural scene and an indoor scene they draw themselves. By the end of this activity ...

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Hub resources with te reo Māori

The Science Learning Hub has a small selection of resources that have been translated into te reo Māori. There are also a number of resources that are part te reo Māori and part English. If ...

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Making a solar oven

In this activity, students will learn about using the Sun’s energy to meet our needs. They will be introduced to concepts around solar energy needed for solar cooking (heat) – dark colours for ...

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Classification
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Reptiles and amphibians
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Habitat
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Animal behaviour
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Ecosystem
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Invertebrates
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Fungi

Fungi are eukaryotic organisms and include yeasts, mould and mushrooms. Some fungi are multi-cellular, while others, such as yeasts, are unicellular. Most fungi are microscopic but many produce ...

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Waste management

New Zealand generates almost 2.5 million tonnes of waste each year that is buried in landfill sites. Waste disposed of in this way is an inefficient use of resources, as much of the waste could ...

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Captive management of skinks

While employed as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Otago, Dr Kelly Hare looked at how captive management regimes could influence the health of individual skinks to promote more ...

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Kitchen science

In this recorded professional learning session, Lyn Rogers and Angela Schipper explore aspects of kitchen science. They discuss how kitchen science can be used to deepen students’ understanding ...

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Developing an eagle eye

In this recorded webinar, Andrea Soanes and Lyn Rogers look at the importance of observation as a fundamental aspect of the nature of science and explore relevant activities on the Science ...

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Making sense of what we see

In this recorded webinar, Andrea Soanes and Lyn Rogers explore how teachers can support students to interpret and make sense of their observations, focusing on how to utilise students’ prior ...

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Trending events

Wellington

Crazy & Ambitious 2

From kauri dieback to small mammal predators, from brown marmorated stink bug to Xylella, from kākāhi to kākā, the second Crazy & Ambitious symposium will cover them all. Enjoy panel ...

20/05/2019 - 21/05/2019
Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury

Professor Brian Cox Universal World Tour 2019

Using state of the art graphics and imagery from ground-based telescopes and space probes, presented using ultra-high-resolution LED screen technology, Brian will explore the latest missions to ...

11/06/2019 - 15/06/2019
Wellington

Innovative Young Minds

In 2019, there will be two sessions of the IYM programme during the July school holidays. Session 1 will run from 7th - 12th July and Session 2 will be held from 14th - 19th July. Students will ...

07/07/2019 - 19/07/2019
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