Build up your science with the “Architecture” show.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGNgqqRgR0w

Bicycles is the topic for this book because bikes are familiar to children from most cultures and also because they allow easy investigation into the concepts of levers, friction, and motion.

This activity assists teachers and students who are new to coding to get started with block coding or programming. Students can create simple code, choosing a digital sprite/character and using block instructions to make it move.

Bridges are so useful. People have been making them for thousands of years. It would be really good to have a bridge so I can keep my clean floor nice and clean :D But how do you make a really strong bridge?

Bill Nye the Science Guy has downloaded the “Computers” episode into his Random Access Memory.

Link to video: https://www.schooltube.com/media/1_en0xw8er

This article describes the systems and technologies that have been developed to prevent unwanted pests, diseases, and goods coming into New Zealand and to prevent precious taonga such as native species being smuggled out of the country.

“Healing Honey” explains how mānuka honey has special healing properties that make it valuable for medicinal purposes. It discusses the technological experimentation and modelling that went into the development of a honey bandage to treat wounds.

“Greig’s Pointed Problem” explores the processes involved in planning, designing, and producing a technological solution to a problem through the process of developing a new umbrella.

Christchurch students from years 7 to 13 entered the Amazing Place City Project competition. They were asked to design an amazing place to help make Christchurch the best small city in the world. The year 7 winning team tested their ideas and used evidence to show that the ideas could really work.

A group of students investigate how to stop food rotting on a journey to Mars. They share what they know about the different methods of food preservation to come up with a plan.

Ryan Kothe, an animator from Auckland, uses stop-motion animation to make short videos and advertisements. In this article, he explains how to create your own stop-motion animation movie.

This article describes the process undertaken by three students from Feilding’s Manchester Street School as they designed and built a robot that won the New Zealand VEX IQ Challenge. The article offers an authentic way of introducing students to programming and computational thinking, as well as physics and engineering concepts related to energy, weight, and balance.

This article describes how three Kiwi companies have used digital technology to help solve health or social problems. It demonstrates how digital technologists think through a problem and how a seemingly abstract issue can be turned into a series of tasks that digital technologies can solve.

This article explains the Global Positioning System – a technology that we’ve quickly become dependent on. It explains how it works and its benefits, while also prompting students to think critically about the risks of over-reliance.

It’s time for Bill Nye to shed a little light on electricity.

Johnny gives you some great tips & tricks that will help to take some awesome photos, and there are a couple of prizes up for grabs!

Investigate how we can harness the power of the wind. Design a sailboat model that can use wind power to move. How can the power of Tāwhirimātea, atua of the winds, help Emirates Team New Zealand’s boat go faster?

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.

Uiuitia kia pēhea te whītiki te mauri me te kaha o Tāwhirimātea. Whakatauira mai he waka moana kua waihangatia e taea ana te hau pupuhi te mau i te ihi hei whakaangi.

Find out about power generated by the wind, what a wind turbine is and how it works

Make a water wheel and feel the power of water! Find out about hydro or hydroelectric power

An inventions episode – what a great idea!
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDjyseCqRKc

Design and build some cool Lego cars. Use this lesson plan and activity to help children create vehicles that can compete against each other in challenges such as speed and strength.