Take this activity with you into nature and see what you can find!

Give me a home among the gum trees, with koalas and honey bees…In this unit find out about the life cycle of Australia’s majestic eucalypts and the animals that depend on them.

Suzy really bites into this investigation. How do apples grow? Do you know? Why don't you join Suzy and find out?

Can you cross off a line, a diagonal, or even the whole board, by finding each of these NZ tree species?

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

Suzy is all a Buzz about this question. She thinks the answer will be really sweet! Join her and it won't bee long before you know why bees make honey!

Build a tree is a fun way to demonstrate how a tree functions. This activity is suitable for both small and large groups of students (and adults!).

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

Find he rākau toa - a mighty tree - in your backyard, your school grounds, your neighbourhood, or in your wider region

Scientists are detectives. They try to solve the mysteries of nature. They use all their senses to find out what life, the world, and the universe are up to.

Christchurch school students came up with some exciting ideas for the BNZ Amazing Place Playground Competition. A group of year 4 students designed the winning playground by gathering survey data and research evidence about the popularity of their idea.

Balaclava School has a new greenhouse called the Living Room. The students find out how the environment inside the Living Room helps plants grow during the cold Dunedin winters and investigate which vegetables grow best inside and outside its unique climate.

This article follows a class project that students conducted after their teacher challenged them to find out how the smell gets into a scented candle. In the process, they learned about distillation, states of matter, and what it takes to become scientists and technologists.

Plants play a very important role in our local environment, and across Aotearoa, connecting many different organism together. Learn how to use a hula hoop as a quadrat, make some new discoveries where you live, and monitor changes over time.

Transfer water from one place to another using an interesting process called capillary action. Teach kids about this topic as they enjoy trying the fun water experiment.

Use this resource to experience native trees in your school grounds or another local green space.

In this episode of Ranger Kōrero – the big picture, ranger Dave explores the meaning of biodiversity in Aotearoa and how we all fit into that picture.

Is it living or not living? Is it a plant or an animal? Explore how we group things together based on their observable features, to help us figure out what everything is!

Stop and smell the “Flowers” episode — it’s sweet.

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

At this level, the focus is on a flowering plant's reproductive structures and the growth of new plants. The process of reproduction (including pollination) is covered in the levels 3 and 4 companion book, Making New Plants, Book 26 in this series.

Bees need flowers, and flowers need bees… In this unit find out about how flowers rely on animals to germinate and help disperse their seeds and how animals depend on plants for food.

These lesson sequences support teachers to facilitate science learning for students who are at home.

Fur, Feathers, and Bark looks at the variety of forms this surface takes, including the functions of insulation and camouflage.

Test your knowledge of nature in NZ with this quiz! Looking for more of a challenge? Try General Nature Quiz 2