Our pānui for Pēpuere shows you how to shift your classroom practice, drive down emissions at the school gate, delve into the carbon cycle and rethink living or not.
In our next webinar, join Andrew James in a free hands-on workshop where we’ll leave the screen behind and learn simple and achievable drawing techniques to help you and your students.
Let us help you – this year, Seaweek – Kaupapa Moana 2025 runs from 1–9 March. Our useful Seaweek resources article lists a wide selection of unit plans and other teacher support materials grouped under possible teaching topics.
Neonicotinoids are a group of synthetic chemicals that are in some of the most widely used insecticides across the world. Evidence is starting to show that these insecticides can persist in soils and they pose a threat to non-target insects and other arthropods. How do we protect food crops from pests but also assure we don’t undermine those same crops by killing vital pollinators like honey bees?
Use this article to discover how river restoration projects have identifiable scientific benefits as ecosystems and natural infrastructure are revived. They also have social benefits.
Have voted for your favourite bug yet? It is now the last week to get your vote in. Our event listing has info and links to find out more on why insects are so critical for the health of our ecosystems.
This coming weekend spend 15 minutes counting butterflies and help increase our knowledge of the butterfly population in Aotearoa New Zealand. This citizen science project only runs once a year for a week (8–16 Feb) and it's easy to help.
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Sediment1incubation2 cores monitored by laboratory assistant Dwaye Monkley.
sediments: Material that settles to the bottom of a liquid. In geology, it describes the solid fragments of inorganic or organic material that come from the weathering of rock and are carried and deposited by wind, water or ice.
incubate: To hatch eggs by sitting on them or by the use of artificial heat. To maintain a favourable temperature and/or conditions to promote development.
Material that settles to the bottom of a liquid. In geology, it describes the solid fragments of inorganic or organic material that come from the weathering of rock and are carried and deposited by wind, water or ice.
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To hatch eggs by sitting on them or by the use of artificial heat. To maintain a favourable temperature and/or conditions to promote development.
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