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

Experiment with the tightly packed, compressed air inside a balloon to amplify small sounds into big noises.

Using senses such as sight, touch and taste, your brain is capable of making amazing calculations that let us respond to the world around us. Teach students more about this with our fun brain activities and lesson plan.

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

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.

Animals use amazing senses to navigate the world. How do dolphins find things underwater? Why do dung beetles roll their dung at night? Scientists gather and use evidence about animals’ super senses to support their ideas.

Does your body have a dominant side? Test yourself with a variety of challenges to find your dominant eye, hand and foot.

Do you like being able to tell the difference between a hot piece of pizza and a cold piece of pizza?

Ears are great! You can hook your glasses over them; you can hang earrings from them, and they can stop your hat sliding down over your eyes! But, how do your ears work?

Music offers a context for concepts of sound that is familiar to children and that they can easily relate to. The concepts on ways in which musical sounds are produced and reach our ears can be investigated and explored in activities that are both relevant to and extend children’s experiences.

Connecting to nature is important for our mental and physical well-being. It is a great way to reduce stress, anxiety and pain. Nature helps us to feel calm, peaceful, and happy. In our first day of nature connection we will be exploring local green spaces. Let’s start to look closer at nature, put our listening ears on, breathe in the fresh air, and open up our hearts to nature!

Light is an integral part of our sense of sight. The physical phenomena of light and of how it travels form patterns that we interpret as sight and colour. These provide excellent opportunities for students to investigate the sources and nature of light.

Scientists use a special tool called an underwater hydrophone to learn more about our big and magnificent marine mammals!

As this topic is Manu/Birds of Aotearoa, our activities are based around identification through sight and sound, along with bird feeding habits and creation stories.

Mindfulness is such an important skill to learn for children in an increasingly hectic and sometimes stressful world. Joe takes you through some simple exercises you can do to be still in the moment and start your mindfulness practice.

Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill Nye the Science Guy is here to talk about patterns

Link to video: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5uigft

This resource can help you plan, implement and take action on restoration projects throughout the school year.

Year 1-8 resource including English, Mathematics and Science for learning about safe road use and citizenship.

Observe and identify small animals in their habitats using your
senses (sight, smell, touch, hearing).

To describe the properties of different materials that objects are made from, using the senses of touch and sight. To select and describe decorations for a hat, based on the properties of materials

Today let’s explore stillness. I want you to find a place outside in your garden. It’s good if you can see a dripping tap, pond, stream, or somewhere damp. You will want to see an open area, and perhaps be slightly undercover – you could sit up against a tree ...feeling comfortable!

Learning about skin science is no sweat.

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

Bill Nye is using his sniffer to find out about the science of “Smell”.

Link for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6QK3g1vP1M

Listen up, scientists. Bill Nye is here to make some noise in the “Sound” episode.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ZlU2qk1Go