This topic planner offers suggested pathways through some of the flight resources on the Science Learning Hub and connects to relevant programmes offered by the Royal Albatross Education Centre.
The topic planner focuses on the following themes:
- Flight and feathers
- Adaptations for flight
- Flight patterns.
The topic planner can be used to create your own personalised teaching unit, and the material can be used in any combination or order. It can also be used to help plan pre/post-activities if your class is going on a flight-themed field trip.
Download the topic planner (see link below).
Useful links
'Royal cam' is live streaming from Pukekura/Taiaroa Head, the world's only mainland breeding colony of albatross in the southern hemisphere. Observe albatross in their natural habitat.
Take a look at these beautiful close-up photos of Buller’s albatrosses on the windswept Solander Island in Foveaux Strait.
Watch this video and slide show about the research being looking at the question 'Do albatrosses have personalities?'
