Backyard Battle is a citizen science programme run by Keep New Zealand Beautiful. It gets students, teachers, volunteers and other citizen scientists out collecting litter at key inland sites such as public recreational spaces, highways and railways, car parks and residential, retail and industrial sites. The goal is to help create a better understanding of litter’s pathway across the land of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Steps in the drinking water treatment process TEST
Step 1 Collection and screening
Step 2: Sedimentation
Step 3: Sand filtration
Step 4: Carbon filtration
Step 5: Disinfection UV
Step 6: Storage and usage
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The deeper meaning is that we are scared of things we don’t know and don’t understand, which is very, very apt for this particular animal, because if you don’t understand its behaviour and the way it interacts, you will be frightened if you encounter one, because it will come running at you.
The whakahao does a kind of bluff charge where it runs right up to you and if you run away, it chases you, but if you stay completely still and ignore it, it will stop about a metre or half a metre away from you and just flop down. So if you don’t understand its behaviour, it’s a very scary thing.
But that also applies to anything about mātauranga or Māori knowledge. If we don’t know about it, we are scared of it, but if we understand it then we’re not afraid of it anymore.
Rauhina Scott-Fyfe
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Glossary test:
daughter cell and daughter cells.
- Word at the end genus
- Word at the end punctuation DNA
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TEST: Magma Drillers Save Planet Earth – resources
This interactive introduces and houses resources developed by Magma Drillers Save Planet Earth – a University of Canterbury project funded by Curious Minds.
Select here to view the full transcript and copyright information.
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Discarded cigarette butts
Cigarette butts are one of the most most common forms of litter in the world and they are not biodegradeable – the filters are made of plastic cellulose acetate fibres that trap nicotine and tar. The used butts are often washed out to sea after been flicked on the ground and a study has found one cigarette butt in a litre of water is enough to kill fish.
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Alternative glosary terms deoxyribonucleic acid and deoxyribose nucleic acid - for DNA
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Antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance – a timeline
- Discovery and use of antimicrobials
- Scientific discoveries
- Antimicrobial resistance develops
This interactive has been developed in partnership with New Zealand Food Safety.
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Planning for students to be citizen scientists provides pedagogical support for educators interested in contributing to an online citizen science project.
See these similar projects:
- Litter Intelligence
- Litterati is a similar online citizen science (OCS) project. It is an international project that allows participants to photograph, upload and tag litter in their own area.
Copied from https://slh.staging.haunt.digital/resources/2755-litter-intelligence
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Plastic is a wicked problem. It’s incredibly useful, but it’s also a huge environmental issue. A helpful resource is Thinking about plastic – planning pathways which includes our interactive planning pathway – use this to begin a cross-curricular look at plastics.
New Zealand science organisations Royal Society Te Apārangi and the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor have created reports and resources to help us rethink plastic.
Read the Connected article Down the drain to see how students in Petone, Lower Hutt, took action to prevent rubbish from entering their local marine environment.
The article Material World – Recycling and biodegradability curates Hub resources into the following topics:
- The issue of waste
- Modern landfill systems
- Biodegradability, recycling and reuse
- Plastic recycling
