This issue of Your environment, Canterbury breathes fresh air into the issue of wintertime smog –
what actually is air pollution, what causes it, why it is so bad in many towns and cities across the
world, and in New Zealand and Canterbury, and what you, your family and friends can do about it!

Heat things up with this experiment. You can do it right where you’re sitting, right now. Try it!

This book explores concepts related to the conservation of matter during physical and chemical changes. It also provides an opportunity to reinforce the concept that gases are material substances, that is, they have mass.

What a mess! Someone’s left out frozen milk, smeared melted chocolate around, spilt white crystals everywhere and what’s that smell? Investigate the elements of the mess scene and find out exactly what’s happening!

What effect does salt have on the temperature of ice? This lesson plan and activity will let students experiment for themselves. What outcomes and reasoning will they come up with?

A class arrives at school to find their room transformed into a laboratory and their teacher transformed into an animal dental hygiene scientist. The zoo asks them to invent a recipe for elephant toothpaste.

At times, Connected themes require the introduction of concepts that students at this curriculum level may not be able to fully understand. What matters at this stage is that students begin to develop understandings that they can grow over time.

Connected promotes scientific, technological, and mathematical literacy so that students can engage in a critical and informed manner with real-life science- and technology- related issues and authentic, context-based mathematical explorations. Connected is provided to all primary schools.

With this experiment, you can study ocean currents in the safety of your own home-no submarine needed.

Some animals are suited to live in the desert and other animals are suited for a forest home… In this unit, explore the structural features and adaptations that help an animal survive in its environment.

Bill’s heating up and chilling out in the “Deserts” episode.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI0mNRKaRrs

Students work in small groups to research energy-efficient house design and passive solar energy. They share their research findings, develop a design for an energy-efficient house and construct a model energy-efficient house from materials supplied, then explain their model to the class.

Adding sugar to water might not make a great drink but it does help with this easy experiment.

Nanogirl and some friends find out what goosebumps are and whether all animals get them - especially animals that live in very, very, very cold places

Use dry ice and a soapy mixture to create a giant dry ice bubble. How big will your bubble get before it bursts?

Nanogirl wants to get the Superpowers of the Earth! Join her as she experiments and investigates how we can use the hidden power that's all around us, above us and buried right under our feet to give ourselves superpowers.

Do egg shells really contain thousands of tiny holes? Find out with this fun science experiment for kids.

Three fun activities involving eggs.

Bill Nye the Science Guy is all charged up for the “Energy” episode.

Watch Bill Nye go with the flow in the “Fluids” episode.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWtETy5eW1M

Get a grip – it’s the “Friction” episode.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu-5QRYjPQk

Twiggy the Pukeko dreams that one day she will live in a warm, dry house. She meets Tua, a tuatara who knows a thing or two about energy from the sun. They visit the Green Dream House and meet Greeny, the owner. Twiggy’s head is soon spinning with facts about insulation, double glazing, solar energy, passive solar design, and a long list of ways to be energy efficient.

Things sure are heating up at Nye Labs.

The title of this topic refers to the transfer of heat energy - a phenomenon that is familiar to children as they experience the processes of warming and cooling in everyday life.