NZ Music Month | Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa 2026
01 May 2026 - 31 May 2026
Region(s): Nationwide
Type(s): promotion
The New Zealand Music Commission is celebrating Music Month this May, with a nationwide programme highlighting Aotearoa’s vibrant music communities. Wrap some science learning around this with our sound and music resources.
This year’s theme, Our Sounds, Our Spaces, celebrates our music and all the places it is made and enjoyed across Aotearoa; from incredible local live music venues and community halls to schools, libraries, marae, public parks, town squares, all ages spaces and more. NZ Music Month 2026 shines a light on the unique environments that bring music to life throughout the motu.
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We’ve made a partial replication of Building Science Concepts Book 18 Exploring Sound: Using Sound-makers and Musical Instruments. This article and interactive explore the big ideas and science concepts for Physical World levels 1 and 2.
Sound – lower primary is a collection of resources and notes for educators. Sign in so you can copy the collection to your own profile, where you can edit, curate additional resources and share and collaborate with others.
Sounds of Aotearoa is a recorded PLD session that features educators from the New Zealand Association of Primary Science Educators (NZAPSE) exploring fun ways to learn and teach about sound.
In this video teacher, Sandy Jackson uses music and simple musical items to encourage observation using multiple senses.
Physical World – Sound provides a handy curation of a wide range of resources on our website. Browse the resources under our sound topic for even more.
Activity ideas
We have lots of activities covering sound, the two below focus on music:
Musical sounds – experience how striking, blowing, plucking and scraping create sounds and how these sounds can come together to make music.
Investigating movement and sound with a pūrerehua – create and use a Māori musical instrument.
Investigating sound has simple exploratory activities and questions to experience and build an understanding of sound.
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