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Levels 1 to 4

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Learning Intentions are from the Ministry of Education
Integration ideas are from the Ministry of Education
Levels 1 to 4
Developing movement concepts and motor skills in the environment
Technology: Share ideas about the ways in which familiar technologies affect their lives eg. the use and disposal of plastics

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Using senses such as sight, touch and taste, your brain is capable of making amazing calculations that let us respond to the world around us. Teach students more about this with our fun brain activities and lesson plan.
Level
1-4
Type
Activity
Brain & Senses
Science Kids
Using senses such as sight, touch and taste, your brain is capable of making amazing calculations that let us respond to the world around us. Teach students more about this with our fun brain activities and lesson plan.

Climate is the average weather of a given area over a long period of time. This includes seasonal temperatures, rain, sunshine, and large weather events such as storms.
Level
1-4
Type
Unit
Climate Change
Kids Greening Taupō
Climate is the average weather of a given area over a long period of time. This includes seasonal temperatures, rain, sunshine, and large weather events such as storms.

Siali is selected to trial a new augmented reality device called SquareEye. While the trial starts off fun, he slowly starts to notice that SquareEye is affecting his experiences in ways he doesn’t necessarily consent to. This story, set in the not-so-distant future, explores how digital technologies can alter our experiences without us knowing.
Level
3
Type
Book
Connected 2018 Level 3: ‘Square Eyes’
Ministry of Education NZ
Siali is selected to trial a new augmented reality device called SquareEye. While the trial starts off fun, he slowly starts to notice that SquareEye is affecting his experiences in ways he doesn’t necessarily consent to. This story, set in the not-so-distant future, explores how digital technologies can alter our experiences without us knowing.

Does your body have a dominant side? Test yourself with a variety of challenges to find your dominant eye, hand and foot.
Level
1-4
Type
Experiment
Dominant Side
Science Kids
Does your body have a dominant side? Test yourself with a variety of challenges to find your dominant eye, hand and foot.

Our eyes are incredible machines, but how do they work? Suzy asks the question while on the grounds of parliament, in NZ. She visits the NZ Film Archive and takes a good look things there!
Level
1-2
Type
Video
Eye: How does the eye work?
Suzy's World
Our eyes are incredible machines, but how do they work? Suzy asks the question while on the grounds of parliament, in NZ. She visits the NZ Film Archive and takes a good look things there!

Curriculum resources for young people to contribute, connect and extend their ideas about keeping safe around trucks on New Zealand roads.
Level
1-4
Type
Unit
Keeping safe around trucks
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
Curriculum resources for young people to contribute, connect and extend their ideas about keeping safe around trucks on New Zealand roads.

Kia Pai Tō Haere is a flexible curriculum resource for Māori Medium Schools that provides guidance for teachers planning contextualised learning based on a kaupapa that keeping whānau safe on a journey is everyone’s work.
Level
1-4
Type
Te Reo Māori
Kia Pai Tō Haere
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
Kia Pai Tō Haere is a flexible curriculum resource for Māori Medium Schools that provides guidance for teachers planning contextualised learning based on a kaupapa that keeping whānau safe on a journey is everyone’s work.

Light is an integral part of our sense of sight. The physical phenomena of light and of how it travels form patterns that we interpret as sight and colour. These provide excellent opportunities for students to investigate the sources and nature of light.
Level
1-2
Type
Activity Book
Light and Colour: Our Vision of the World
Ministry of Education NZ
Light is an integral part of our sense of sight. The physical phenomena of light and of how it travels form patterns that we interpret as sight and colour. These provide excellent opportunities for students to investigate the sources and nature of light.

Light from a source forms shadows and can be absorbed, reflected and refracted. In this unit, conduct investigations that explore these ideas and discover the amazing behaviour of light for yourself.
Level
3
Type
Unit
Light shows
Primary Connections
Light from a source forms shadows and can be absorbed, reflected and refracted. In this unit, conduct investigations that explore these ideas and discover the amazing behaviour of light for yourself.

Light and sound are all around us. What produces light and sound? Can you feel sound? Does sound travel through things? Do we need light to see? Are two eyes better than one? Let’s use our senses to explore light and sound.
Level
1
Type
Unit
Look! Listen!
Primary Connections
Light and sound are all around us. What produces light and sound? Can you feel sound? Does sound travel through things? Do we need light to see? Are two eyes better than one? Let’s use our senses to explore light and sound.

Water is pretty amazing! Did you know you can use it to zoom-in on nature? Use these videos to make your own magnifying glass at home! Download our groundwater article so you can look closer at micro-organisms too!
Level
1-4
Type
Activity
Make a magnifying glass out of water
Kiwi Conservation Club - Hakuturi Toa
Water is pretty amazing! Did you know you can use it to zoom-in on nature? Use these videos to make your own magnifying glass at home! Download our groundwater article so you can look closer at micro-organisms too!

Year 1-8 resource including English, Mathematics and Science for learning about safe road use and citizenship.
Level
1-4
Type
Unit
Road safety: Everyone is a road user
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
Year 1-8 resource including English, Mathematics and Science for learning about safe road use and citizenship.

Because light is so easily observable, we can readily investigate its sources and patterns (including reflection and absorption) and consider how we receive and process the sensory information of light and colour.
Level
3-4
Type
Activity Book
Seeing Colours: The Spectrum, the Eye, and the Brain
Ministry of Education NZ
Because light is so easily observable, we can readily investigate its sources and patterns (including reflection and absorption) and consider how we receive and process the sensory information of light and colour.

Join Nanogirl as she experiments and investigates her way through the science of light, eyeballs, cameras and optical illusions!
Level
1-4
Type
Video
Sight Superpower Series
Nanogirl
Join Nanogirl as she experiments and investigates her way through the science of light, eyeballs, cameras and optical illusions!

Today let’s explore stillness. I want you to find a place outside in your garden. It’s good if you can see a dripping tap, pond, stream, or somewhere damp. You will want to see an open area, and perhaps be slightly undercover – you could sit up against a tree ...feeling comfortable!
Level
1-4
Type
Mindfulness
Sit Spot
Whenua Iti Outdoors
Today let’s explore stillness. I want you to find a place outside in your garden. It’s good if you can see a dripping tap, pond, stream, or somewhere damp. You will want to see an open area, and perhaps be slightly undercover – you could sit up against a tree ...feeling comfortable!

Gather round children and marvel at the amazing bending straw. It's an easy optical illusion that only needs a glass, some water and a straw.
Level
1-4
Type
Experiment
Straw Bending
Science Kids
Gather round children and marvel at the amazing bending straw. It's an easy optical illusion that only needs a glass, some water and a straw.

We need to eyes to be able to use binoculars and to see through both lenses of a pair of glasses, but what's the real reason you have two eyes?
Level
1-2
Type
Video
Two Eyes: Why do we have two eyes?
Suzy's World
We need to eyes to be able to use binoculars and to see through both lenses of a pair of glasses, but what's the real reason you have two eyes?