Talking to Dr Cate Macinnis-Ng from Te Punaha Matatini, Dr Michelle Dickinson will cover the basics of plant biology in vascular plants, carry out a hands-on experiment and talk about how plants cope with drought.

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!

This article describes the physical processes that drive weather: the water cycle and changes in air pressure and temperature. The text then explains how these processes work together to cause a variety of weather conditions.

Scientists know that global warming is leading to rising sea levels, but the rate of change and its likely impact are less clear. Scientists investigate what is happening and use the evidence to suggest how we might adapt to the changes.

Nancy Bertler is a scientist who studies the ice. She’s been examining Antarctic ice cores to discover what Earth’s climate was like in the past – and how it might change in the future.

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

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.

Erosion is going on all day, all the time. It’s happening right now!

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

The surface of the Earth is always changing. Mountains get made. But given enough time, entire mountains get washed away by what we call “erosion”.

Make a rain gauge and record how much rain is falling from the skies during the next rain fall. Was it a light shower or a heavy storm? Record and compare your results.

Go with the flow of ocean currents with Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Ride the rapids with Bill Nye in the “Rivers and Streams” episode.

Link to video: https://www.schooltube.com/media/Bill+Nye+Rivers+and+Streams/1_tx8sf4c9

Where does the water go when it rains? This is a very good question and hopefully rainwater is the only thing that arrives at that final destination!

In this episode Dr Michelle Dickinson will cover the basics of the water cycle, carry out a hands-on experiment to make rain and talk about freshwater algae with Dr Susie Wood from the Cawthron Institute.

Learn how you can make a tornado in a bottle with just a few simple items that you can find around the house.

Waitaha Wai is a water education programme designed to educate young people and their communities about the importance of water and waterways in their environment and how to maintain them for future generations.

Bill Nye the Science Guy is no drip – he’s just talking about the water cycle.

Link to video: https://www.schooltube.com/media/Bill+Nye+Water+Cycle/1_x140f0rz

The amount of water being extracted (taken from its source) in New Zealand, for things like irrigation (watering paddocks) and water bottling, is already large, but there are plans coming out all the time to take even more – millions, even billions, of litres more a year.

Water and Weather develops these ideas in the context of Earth's water cycle, offering children an opportunity to examine and develop their concepts about both water and weather.

Waterways offer us good examples of how the surface of planet Earth has been, and is being, shaped and changed. New Zealand, with its rugged landscape and rainy climate, shows plenty of evidence of the part water plays in the processes that shape our environment.

"Weathering" and "erosion" are terms that describe the basic processes of everyday wear and tear on the rocks, soils, and vegetation of our landscape. Studying them offers us readily accessible evidence of how the surface of planet Earth has been, and is being, shaped and changed.

Wet Feet is about involving schools and communities in the care and restoration of freshwater systems.

Water's ready availability, within or outside the classroom, can provide opportunities for investigation into its forms – liquid, solid, and gas – and the ways in which it changes form, particularly the processes of evaporation and condensation.

Windmills and waterwheels have been chosen as the focus of this book because children can construct them as models to more easily investigate how they work and what makes them work most efficiently.