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Parasitoid wasp life cycle

Introduced wasps cause all sort of problems for people and native species, but did you know we have native wasps in New Zealand? Rights: Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, CC-BY 4.0 Certonotus ...

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Life of a pea crab

The New Zealand pea crab (Nepinnotheres novaezelandiae) is a parasite that spends its adult life within a mussel shell. However, the larval stages of its life cycle take place in the open ocean ...

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Freshwater macroinvertebrates

New Zealand has over 200 species of freshwater macroinvertebrates. An invertebrate is an animal that lacks a backbone. ‘Macro’ means the invertebrates are large enough to be seen without ...

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Plant reproduction – literacy and numeracy learning ...

Plant reproduction is a topic that lends itself to many areas within the junior and middle school curriculum. This teacher resource provides a number of literacy and numeracy links to New Zealand ...

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Poetry with Fred the Thread – middle primary

If you enjoy Dr Seuss, you will enjoy Dr Hoare! Poetry with Fred the Thread – middle primary is a ready-to-use cross-curricular teaching resource. It uses a humorous poem read by author and ...

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Pollination – three-level reading guide

In this activity, students read about pollination using a three-level reading guide and use their ability to locate information to interpret the scientific information. Students apply their ...

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eBird

This comprehensive worldwide online citizen science (OCS) project collates bird species, numbers, locations and times of sightings into a large database. You can create a class as a user and, by ...

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Spyfish Aotearoa

Come and visit Aotearoa New Zealand’s underwater world in this online citizen science project. Discover, count and identify unique fish species that live within our marine reserves ...

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Marine Metre Squared

Marine Metre Squared is a New Zealand citizen science project that supports communities to monitor their local seashore. The project has been designed to provide meaningful, valid environmental ...

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Living World – The rocky shore

The rocky shore is a popular topic in primary school science. Below are some Science Learning Hub resources for primary teachers related to the rocky shore in the Living World strand of the New ...

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Reading aloud text with secondary students

This research brief focuses on how one secondary school teacher used a Science Learning Hub activity to develop her year 9 students’ science and literacy skills. For this, she used a variety of ...

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All about insects

In this webinar, join Greta Dromgool as she introduces Tom Saunders and Chrissie Painting – two of Aotearoa New Zealand’s amazing entomologists. Delve into the fascinating world of insects and ...

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Pea crabs: male vs female

Male and female New Zealand pea crabs differ in their size, shape and colour. In this video, Oliver Trottier (Leigh Marine Laboratory) uses live crabs to demonstrate the key differences, and ...

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Pinning down the pea crab life cycle

Until recently, the life cycle of the New Zealand pea crab had not been fully described – in particular, the larval stages were unknown. However, Jessica Feickert, a Master’s research student at ...

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How pea crabs find their way home

As they prepare to metamorphose from larvae into adults, New Zealand pea crabs seek out the green-lipped mussels (and other bivalve molluscs) that will be their homes for the remainder of their ...

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Monarch butterfly life cycle

The life cycle of the monarch butterfly. Click on one of titles to find out more about each stage. Select here to view the full transcript and copyright information.

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Marine ecosystem

Explore this interactive diagram to learn more about life in the sea. Click on the different labels to view short video clips or images about different parts of the marine ecosystem. Select here ...

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Environmental forensics

Dr Candida Savage explains the clues she collects in estuaries and fiords, to understand how changes in land use affect these environments. Click on the labels to watch the videos for more ...

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