Our māramatanga Māori resources are a growing collection that we envision will deepen understanding and further highlight mātauranga me te ...
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 ...
He mea whakahirahira te manu ki te iwi Māori, he uri whakaheke nā Tāne Mahuta he mana nui tōna i te tirohanga mātairangi a te māori ...
Iwi Māori of Aotearoa did not have a written language until the 19th century, and knowledge was encoded and passed down through waiata (songs), pātere (chants), ...
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. ...
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 – ...
An English-language edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s <i>Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica</i>. The translation of many scientific works from Latin to English allowed them to reach a ...
These schools taught Māori students subjects like English and maths. The schools have been criticised for contributing to the diminishment of te reo Māori and for ...
Illustration of a compound microscope from René Descartes’ La Dioptrique. Descartes’ contributions to scientific thought include the formula ‘cogito, ergo sum’ (I think, therefore I am) ...
In this once popular demonstration, a child suspended by insulated cords was charged with static electricity to attract objects and generate sparks.
Detail from Manchester from Kersal Moor by William Wyld shows how the Industrial Revolution transformed the English countryside.
“Man is but a worm” is a Punch magazine caricature of Charles Darwin from 1882, mocking his theory of evolution.
This is the patent document for the light bulb developed at Thomas Edison’s laboratory. Edison’s inventions were possible thanks to a diverse and ingenious team of ...
Citizen scientists are volunteers. Many citizen science projects are aimed at gathering environmental data and preserving te taiao.
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