In this recorded professional learning session, Shanthie Walker from DOC and Lyn Rogers explore resources and ideas to support your students’ learning outside the classroom. They model a process ...
Active reading is an important activity for making meaning during the process of science inquiry (Osborne, 2010). The integration of science and literacy can enhance student learning in both ...
In this recorded professional learning session, Lyn Rogers and Andrea Soanes explore resources and ideas to support your students in taking action for conservation. They model a process of ...
Birdlife has been declining in the New Zealand bush for many years, mainly due to introduced predators such as rats and stoats. Professor Dave Kelly and Jenny Ladley of the University of ...
New Zealand birds evolved in isolation from natural predators for around 65 million years. When human settlers arrived, changes came rapidly, and birds were poorly adapted to withstand threats to ...
New Zealand is world famous for its unique birdlife. In our resources on conserving our native birds, we look at the issues surrounding the conservation of some of our threatened bird species ...
In this activity, students consider the conservation of native birds from a number of different perspectives. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: examine the conservation of ...
In this activity, students place small stickers (tags) onto caught or newly emerged monarch butterflies and release them into the environment. The tag number, information about the butterfly and ...
In this activity, students classify the different types of adaptations that New Zealand native birds have. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: classify adaptations of birds ...
Video recording of the PD webinar: Inquiry outside the classroom. Acknowledgement This Powerpoint was developed by the SLH to support the Department of Conservation’s Whio Forever project, which ...
Video recording of the PD webinar: Taking action for conservation. Acknowledgement This was developed by the SLH to support the Department of Conservation’s Whio Forever project, which was ...
Many New Zealand birds have declined in numbers, so Dave Kelly and Jenny Ladley of University of Canterbury study the effect this has on native bird-pollinated plants. Dave explains the need to ...
This slideshow, from the webinar Inquiry outside the classroom, provides additional support for the video tutorial.
This slideshow, from the webinar Taking action for conservation, provides additional support for the video tutorial.
This slideshow allows students to consider some of the pros and cons of various methods of predator control.
