SLH: Moanamana – taking action to protect our oceans
09 October 2025 - 09 October 2025
4:00–4:45 pm
Region(s): Nationwide
Type(s): professional Development
Join Simone Marsters from Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao Science Learning Hub in a session exploring the amazing mahi students are doing to protect and enhance their local marine environment.
Taking action for marine environments
The United Nations states that an estimated 60% of marine ecosystems have been degraded. Akonga from around New Zealand are taking action through monitoring and restoration projects, making positive changes to their local marine environments.
Our guest presenters Alisa Torgensen and Dean Stanley have key roles in bringing to life RŪNĀ, a Yachting New Zealand project that supports kiwi kids to learn from the past and to steer toward a sustainable future. In this webinar, you will hear about Moanamana – one of the RŪNĀ modules. This project supports schools and students to take action on marine ecosystem degradation at the local level by creating a network of NZL Blue Belt sites around Aotearoa New Zealand's coastline and waterways.
Dean will share what schools in Te Kahui Ako o Motu Kairangi in the eastern suburbs of Wellington have been inspired to do alongside Worser Bay Boating Club to help restore marine ecosystems in their corner of Wellington harbour.
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About Moanamana
60% of the world's marine ecosystems are degraded
Moanamana is a developed in partnership with the New Zealand Marine Studies Centre and Coastal People: Southern Skies Centre of Research Excellence. Together they support young people to learn through and be kaitiaki of the marine environment, and in the process help them to be safe, feel connected, and be more active in, on and around the ocean.
The aim is that Moanamana connects schools and kura with their local sailing club and supports ākonga to become citizen scientists to research the impact of pollution, climate change and overfishing on marine ecosystems. Through classroom learning, field trips to their local yacht club, data collection, analysis, and restoration projects, ākonga take an active role in bringing mana back to the moana.
This session will be most valuable for teachers of years 4–10.
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Joining the webinar
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Related content
This webinar is part 2 in a series, watch part 1, Monitoring the moana – participatory science methods.
For all Hub resources on estuaries and seashore environments, including the significance of estuaries to Māori, marine animal adaptations and marine habitats – see our Estuaries and Oceans topics.
The Ministry of Education’s Building Science Concepts series includes Book 21: Life between the Tides: Sandy Shores, Mudflats, and Rocky Shores and Book 22: Tidal Communities: Interdependence and the Effects of Change.
Useful links
Explore what a Moanamana experience could look like for your class on the RŪNĀ website and register your interest here.
Acknowledgement
Thank you to RŪNĀ.
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