Our māramatanga Māori resources are a growing collection that we envision will deepen understanding and further highlight mātauranga me te ...
Iwi Māori of Aotearoa did not have a written language until the 19th century, and knowledge was encoded and passed ...
He mea whakahirahira te manu ki te iwi Māori, he uri whakaheke nā Tāne Mahuta he mana nui tōna i ...
This resource contains kuputaka Māori mo āhuarangi hurihuri a hurihanga waro – reo Māori words associated with climate change and the carbon cycle. Māori developed detailed ...
E whai ana Te Tatauranga o ngā Manu Māra o Aotearoa ki te whakamanawa i te kaitiakitanga mā roto i ngā kohakoha pūtaiao kirirarau ki te ...
A change in birdsong was a tohu for mana whenua that something was not right in the Waitākere Ranges. A rāhui is a form of tapu ...
The association of birds as the children of Tāne Mahuta reflects their importance in Māori cosmology and their integral role in the natural world. They were ...
Te Tatauranga o ngā Manu Māra o Aotearoa | New Zealand Garden Bird Survey strives to encourage kaitiakitanga through citizen science efforts to enhance knowledge and ...
Kōwhai trees litter the banks of rivers and streams and are a popular choice as a border for new roading developments around Aotearoa. Not only are ...
Aotearoa New Zealand is home to an amazing diversity of living things, many of which are endemic – only found here. Nowhere else on the planet ...
The Earth is a dynamic system – a combination of interrelated, interacting parts that form a collective entity. From a scientific point of view, the Earth ...
Our atmosphere and climate 2023 – an environmental report produced by the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ – begins with this whakatauākī: Tiakina te ...
Food preservation is something that most people take for granted. Our cupboards contain tins, jars, sealed bags and boxes. Refrigerators and freezers store perishable foods. We ...
Botany is the scientific study of plants. This field of study encompasses terrestrial, freshwater and ocean plants, as well as algae and some non-plants like fungi. ...
In this activity, students use two separate online interactives or paper-based graphic organisers to explore these key science ideas: what makes something living and what makes ...
Puna Aronui – Exploring mātauranga pūtaiao was a Science Learning Hub PLD programme designed to support educators to deepen understanding of mātauranga Māori as a meaningful ...
In this recorded professional learning session Simone Marsters and Greta Dromgool share an excerpt from their 2025 SCICON workshop Ahi Mārama: Igniting understanding through interwoven knowledge ...
Puna Aronui was a 4-week part-time online programme funded by the New Zealand Association of Science Educators and the Network of Expertise. It was designed to ...
Kua whakawhanaketia tēnei rauemi hei whakahihiri, hei whakahihiko, hei tautoko hoki i te whakaako kei roto, kei waho hoki i te akomanga. He ataata pakiwaituhi tāoreore ...
This interactive resource has been developed to engage, inspire and support learning in and out of the classroom. It contains short animated videos featuring Te Ariki ...
This interactive diagram uses information from Our atmosphere and climate 2023 – an environmental report produced by the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ – ...
Use this interactive graphic organiser to consider whether something is an animal or not. Place the image cards where you think they belong. You can move ...
Use this interactive graphic organiser to consider whether something is living or non-living. Place the image cards where you think they belong. You can move the ...
This is an edited recording of the webinar Igniting understanding through interwoven knowledge systems.
Te Waikoropupū Springs are the largest cold-water springs in the southern hemisphere. Eight main vents discharge water from an aquifer beneath the Tākaka Valley. Waikoropupū is ...
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