If you study insects you’re called an entomologist. You can learn a lot about insects, like how their bodies work, how long they live and what they eat.

This unit includes a series of activities which focus on the shells made from animals in the Phylum Mollusca (e.g. snails, mussels, limpets, chitons). Link to teacher guide: https://www.otago.ac.nz/marine-studies/resources/download/otago062811.pdf

This unit includes a series of activities which focus on the shells made from animals in the Phylum Mollusca (e.g. snails, mussels, limpets, chitons). Link to poster: https://www.otago.ac.nz/marine-studies/resources/download/otago371801.pdf

Insects are animals belonging to the class known as Insecta.

Get ready for “toad-al” fun with Bill Nye and the “Amphibians” episode.

Link for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMRCsjrjkpo

Bill’s in the swim with the “Animal Locomotion” episode.

Link for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkjGKBd61Y0

Look for the following on the beach. Remember not to collect anything that is alive, just describe it.

Ready for an eggs-citing show? It’s the “Birds” episode. Link for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhcKZOO5OWk

These posters have fun facts about whio/blue duck, and why they are important.

In this show, you can Bone up on Muscles.

Suzy challenges her grey matter to investigate what our brains do.

Joe takes you on a journey to discover the wonderful world of bugs!! Find some critters in your backyard & get to know them a little better.

To become familiar with the coastal environment with a special focus on rock pools and their environment.

You can’t see them, but they’re everywhere even inside Bill Nye. This is not science fiction, it’s the science of cells.

Link for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRsRxzK0_D8

Centipedes have been on earth for about 450 million years, even before dinosaurs. Centipedes have lots of eggs, are carnivores (they can kill or parlyse their prey with venom-laden claws) and are mostly nocturnal.

Bill Nye’s trying to tell you something – about communication.

Link for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyW8iuCkc-I

In “Skin and Bones” students are introduced to the fascinating communities that develop in the carcasses of whales on the ocean floor.

Scientist Hannah Rainforth investigated kākahi in the Whanganui River to find whether the evidence supports claims by local kaumātua that kākahi have nearly disappeared.

Sounds are all around us, even if we can’t hear them. Human ears are designed to pick up sound waves of a range of different frequencies, but ultrasonic and infrasonic sounds have frequencies that only certain animals can hear.

This article explores how early Māori went about naming and grouping the plants and animals they found around them. It explains what this process reveals about Māori ways of viewing the world and the framework provided by whakapapa. It prompts comparisons with the Linnaean system for naming and grouping organisms and describes an example of Māori and Pākehā working together and drawing on knowledge from both systems.

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 this resource to experience birds in your school grounds or another local green space.

Use this resource to experience invertebrates (insects) in your school grounds or another local green space.

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!