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Penguin Watch – Zooniverse

Help scientists establish valuable baseline data about the numbers, locations, habits and health of penguins in a range of Southern Ocean sites. This information will enable better understanding ...

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Crabeater Seals – Tomnod

Antarctica’s crabeater seals are the focus of an international study led by the University of Canterbury. The aim is to understand potential environmental and social impacts on one of the ...

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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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Who’s eating who?

Have you ever wondered how animals manage to survive in the harsh Antarctic environment? What do they eat during those long winter months when ice and darkness cover the land and sea? Rights: ...

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Investigating sea level rise

In this activity, students build simple models to demonstrate the differing impacts of melting land ice and sea ice on sea level rise. Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato ...

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Climate change resources – planning pathways

Climate change is one of the world’s big issues. It is also a big topic to tackle in the classroom. The Hub’s planning pathways interactive suggests ways in which climate change can be broken ...

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Teachers using the Hub – Butterflies and citizen science ...

In this online PD session recorded on 30 July 2015, primary school teacher Angela Schipper describes how she used the Butterflies resources from the Science Learning Hub in the classroom. In ...

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A butterfly story in a primary classroom

The New Zealand Curriculum has a strong focus on ensuring that all students have the skills and knowledge to participate in public debates and decision-making processes as critical, active ...

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The Antarctic field toilet

To keep Antarctica as pristine as possible all impacts from human presence have to be kept to an absolute minimum, this includes human wastes. The field camp has an out-doors toilet that consists ...

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A guided tour of the Tangaroa

Stacey Mulgrew, the Land Information representative gives a tour of the ship. Stacey starts on deck and explains the decks of the ship using the ship’s deck plans. She shows where one of the ...

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Antarctic icefish

Andrew Stewart is discussing the adaptations of the Antarctic silverfish. Points of interest for teachers: Students may want to discuss why the icefish does not have red blood. Why is more oxygen ...

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The benthic zone – slideshow

This short slideshow shows some of the animals found in the Antarctic benthic zone. Use the Slideshow menu for further options, including view full screen, and go here for the download option.

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Researching in Antarctica – slideshow

This slideshow presents images from Megan Balks and Jackie Aislabie's trips to Antarctica. Use the Slideshow menu for further options, including view full screen, and go here for the download ...

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Planning pathways using climate change resources

This interactive groups Hub resources into key science and teaching concepts. The article Climate change resources – planning pathways provides pedagogical advice and links to the New Zealand ...

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