Here are links to Science Learning Hub resources for primary teachers related to life cycles in the Living World strand...
In Spring 2020 Countdown developed a fantastic collection of insect cards and an album full of amazing facts and activities all about insects found in Aotearoa...
This article describes how students and Ngāti Mutunga teamed up with an ecologist to investigate frog populations – kimihia means to look for – in the...
What is a mast? You might be forgiven for thinking it had more to do with ships than conservation! The term comes from the ancient English...
Introduced wasps cause all sort of problems for people and native species, but did you know we have native wasps in New Zealand? What is a...
Nō te whaitua eukaryota ngā hekaheka, ko te īhi, ko te puruhekaheka, ko te harore ētahi o ōna huānga. He pūtautini ētahi hekaheka, ko ētahi ia,...
Fungi are eukaryotic organisms and include yeasts, moulds and mushrooms. Some fungi are multicellular, while others, such as yeasts, are unicellular. Most fungi are microscopic, but...
He puna koiora puiaki te wao nui a Tāne. Waihoki, ko Aotearoa anake te kāinga e tupu māori ai te nuinga o ōna hanga ora. Ko...
Glow-worms are New Zealand’s underground stars. Small but bright, it is no wonder why they attract so many tourists to places such as Waitomo and Paparoa...
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...
Humans have many reasons to grow plants. We use them for food, for building materials, for pleasure and for many other purposes. A plant really just...
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...
Oliver Trottier and Jessica Feickert (Leigh Marine Laboratory) have been working to understand the biology of the New Zealand pea crab, which is a parasite of...
Green-lipped mussels are endemic to New Zealand. They make their home on rocks and solid surfaces around New Zealand’s coastline. Mussel life cycle During its life...
The flowers and fruit of flowering plants come and go as part of their life cycle. Some flowering plants don’t even have stems and leaves all...
Paula Lourie and Angela Schipper wrote the ferns collection of resources with the aim of creating a botany resource that was uniquely Kiwi in character. Why...
There are ferns in most New Zealanders’ backyards and local environments. Ferns are green flowerless plants with divided leaves that tend to grow in damp, shady...
In New Zealand, ferns are abundant in our landscape. They are a major part of our ecosystems. Scientists are interested in when and how our ferns...
Ferns are abundant in our New Zealand landscape, making them a major part of our ecosystems. They are the green flowerless plants with divided leaves that...
This resource provides explanations of the key concepts encountered when exploring this context – the ‘basics’ that every student should understand. Fern Botany Biosystematics Classification Herbarium...
Butterflies are appealing insects. We actively encourage them to visit our gardens, but white butterflies (Pieris rapae rapae) are an exception. We consider them unwelcome dinner...
New Zealand’s most identifiable butterfly is the monarch (Danaus plexippus). Although found in many places around the world, the monarch is considered a New Zealand native...
All of our reptiles and amphibians are fully protected by law. It is illegal to collect skinks and geckos, and you need a special permit to...
Our great forests of Tāne-mahuta hold a treasure trove of life that is mostly found only in Aotearoa. Fungi are among Tāne’s descendants, along with plants...
We can gain an understanding of New Zealand’s ancient past by studying our plants and their distribution. This enables us to find answers to questions such...
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