Our November pānui is full of ideas to get students outside for meaningful, hands-on and active learning through observation. Suitable for ECE to middle school. Learning...

Insect vision is quite different to human vision, but insects do see colours, and they use their colour vision to get around and find food. We...

Mercury – named after a Roman god known for speed and agility – is a chemical element that has fascinated humans for thousands of years. Mercury...

These unit plans come as Word document downloads that can be easily modified to suit your students’ learning needs or used as they are. Learn about...

Water has unusual properties that make it different to other liquids. It is the only common substance that is naturally found as a solid (ice), liquid...

In this activity, students learn about the surface tension of water by experimenting with bubbles. By the end of this activity, students should be able to:...

In this activity, students conduct a few simple activities to learn more about surface tension – a liquid’s thin ‘skin’. By the end of this activity,...

The next time you use a straw to blow bubbles into your juice or use a bubble wand to make soap bubbles, take a moment to...

Water seems to be everywhere in New Zealand. Oceans surround us. There are hundreds of lakes and rivers. Some South Island regions get more than 10...

Use these Material World resources for NZ Curriculum levels 1 and 2 to explore the characteristics of solids, liquids, gases and bubbles by observing water and...

The Aotearoa New Zealand longfin eel ❘ tuna (Anguilla dieffenbachii) is New Zealand’s only endemic freshwater eel. Our shortfin eel (Anguilla australis) is also found in...

Liquids are one of the states of matter – the other states are solids, gases, plasmas and Bose-Einstein condensates. The simplest way to determine if something...

Einstein pictured gravity not as a force but as a warping of space and time caused by the mass of objects. Understanding Einstein’s theories about the...

The human eye is a sense organ adapted to allow vision by reacting to light. The cornea and the crystalline lens are both important for the...

The human eye is a sense organ adapted to allow vision by reacting to light. The eye contains structures that allow it to perceive light, movement...

Usually we know that earthquakes have occurred by shaking of the ground and objects, obvious ground movement or by seismometer readings but scientists have discovered to...