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Kia Pākiki – AI in education

Amit Sarkar and Selena Chan worked on the 2025 book Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Education and Training. They sat down ...

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Graph of carbon dioxide concentration at school gate

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Drive it Down! – reducing emissions at your school

For the average New Zealander, transport contributes 90% of their personal, direct carbon dioxide emissions. People who drive to work ...

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Making lava fudge

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Making lava fudge

In this activity, students make chocolate fudge using three slightly different combinations of ingredients to model the different proportions of ...

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Making a case for the 5th kingdom

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Making a case for the 5th kingdom

Are fungi plants? Are they animals? How do you decide?

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iNaturalist

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iNaturalist

iNaturalist logs hundreds of thousands of photos of flora, fauna and fungi. There are even sound recordings too. Each is ...

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Water bottle rockets

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Water bottle rockets

In this activity, students make a water bottle rocket. They investigate the variables that affect the height and distance travelled ...

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Volunteers replanting a riparian strip by a stream, New Zealand.

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Citizen science

Two Tiger worms (Eisenia fetida).

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Earthworms

Sun’s ecliptic path and the 12 zodiac constellations.

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Navigation

standard symbol warning of poison.

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Toxins

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View looking down from Earth's atmosphere at clouds.

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Atmosphere

Row of beakers containing a range of common materials to test pH

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Chemical reactions

Fern koru in wild in New Zealand

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Māramatanga Māori

Image of Killer T cells (or cytotoxic T cells).

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Immune system

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Latest resources

Article

Kia Pākiki – AI in education

Amit Sarkar and Selena Chan worked on the 2025 book Artificial Intelligence in Vocational Education and Training. They sat down ...

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Climate change literacy learning links – teacher resource

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Climate change literacy learning links – teacher resource

This teacher resource lists selected articles from the Connected and School Journal reading series that support science concepts when teaching ...

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He rauemi reo Māori mō ngā rākau – Te reo Māori plant resources

Teacher PLD

He rauemi reo Māori mō ngā rākau – Te reo Māori plant resources

Kia whai mātauranga tātou mō ō tātou rākau mā te reo Māori.

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Kea Database

Citizen science

Kea Database

Taking part in this project helps scientists and conservationists know more about the habits of kea. Where are they? How ...

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Tēnei mea te hekaheka

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Tēnei mea te hekaheka

He puna koiora puiaki te wao nui a Tāne. Waihoki, ko Aotearoa anake te kāinga e tupu māori ai te ...

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Using our glossary

Teacher PLD

Using our glossary

Science has its own language. Some words – like ‘gene’ – are completely new. Other words – like ‘energy’ – ...

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