AT HOME ENVIRO & CONSERVATION LEARNING

Activities and resources for learning about conservation and the environment at home. While New Zealand is experiencing lockdown conditions due to COVID-19, use common sense when going outdoors. Keep the activities in your own garden or incorporate them into your daily walk, while remembering to stay in your personal bubble.
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Young scientists: are you ready to explore?
Are you ready to explore? Become a scientist in your section and discover the world outside your door. Why not share your discoveries and creations, and we'll share them, too #YoungScientists #ScienceInYourSection #Lockdown #LeafArt
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Global Environmental Education Partnership — WEBSITE
A Champion for Environmental Education Around the World Our mission is to create a vibrant and inclusive learning network designed to strengthen environmental education globally to create a more sustainable future for all.
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Activities & Resources
Curriculum linked activities and resources for use in the classroom, at your ECE centre, online or when learning from home.
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New Zealand bush ecosystems — SLH STUDENT ACTIVITY
In this activity, students build a food web that represents the New Zealand bush ecosystem. Students use images of organisms within the ecosystem to explore the relationships between them. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: * understand the difference between a food chain and a food web * describe some of the relationships between organisms within the New Zealand bush ecosystem * explain why birds have an important role in the New Zealand bush ecosystem...
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Get the kids outside. The potential for learning abounds - THE DAY USA OP ED
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Origami Kererū – KIWI CONSERVATION CLUB ACTIVITY
Too many of us are familiar with that sickening “thunk” as a bird hits a window. Window strike kills many birds each year, but this is one harm to our native birds which can be avoided.
Urban Wildlife Trust
Too many of us are familiar with that sickening “thunk” as a bird hits a window. Window strike kills many birds each year, but this is one harm to our native birds which can be avoided.
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‘Slow Education’ and its links to sustainability
‘Slow Education’ is more than just slowing down. It is an educational approach that seeks to achieve healthy relational bonds between and across people, as well as connectedness to the local and wider environment. It asks us to pause before we buy something for use in our teaching and to instead consider whether we might make do with the resources that we have on hand. In addition, it asks us to build our own skills and capacities to meet these ends. It prioritises care, quality, and enjoyment.
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Koikiwi play cool ecological and environmental friendly games
Koikiwi.com has simple online games with ecological messages. The audience is from age 6 and upward.
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Nature, nurturing and neuroscience
A Porirua primary school has seen a transformation in children’s behaviours since adopting the Neuro-sequential Model in Education (NME) developed by American psychiatrist and author of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr Bruce Perry. Four days a week, first thing in the morning, Jess’s class spends about an hour in the bush. The dynamic nature of the bush play programme has changed the behaviours she was seeing in her class. “When they first get into the bush, they are a bit unsure...
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Tātai Aho Rau Core Education blog
Ko koe ki tēna, ko āhau, ki tēnei kiwai o te kete. You take that handle of the kete and I’ll take this one. Teaching and learning is all a bit of a puzzle right now; not a simple child’s one with only one place where each piece fits, but more like a Wasgij puzzles where we can’t see the finished picture and are unsure how long it will take to complete. Thankfully we do have many clues: We can draw on our understanding of how our junior primary ākonga learn,...
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Seedlings
In these uncertain times, I was thinking about how I can best support you as teachers or as parents. So this special edition of Seedlings is focused on some activities that kids can do to explore their own backyards. I've picked a few things to share as I've noticed that, day by day, more organisations like Predator Free and Project Crimson Trusts have posted to social media ideas and activities for kids to do. If you are a teacher and looking for more ideas to support your students ...
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StayiNatHome NZ
The whole of NZ is now on Level 4 Covid19 lockdown, in self-isolation to slow the spread of the virus. It can be a scary and stressful time. One way to briefly reach past the worry is to pull out the iNaturalist app, or your camera, and focus on nature. This is a project to celebrate nature at home, while we all do our part to save lives by slowing the spread of Covid19. Focus on the moment by exploring, connecting with, and sharing nature and try to switch off from all the stress and worry.
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Making a tracking tunnel — SLH STUDENT ACTIVITY
In this activity, students make a tracking tunnel to monitor the presence of pest species in a neighbouring gully or their school grounds. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: understand the uses of tracking tunnels in conservation create a functional tracking tunnel identify any tracks present in their tracking tunnel decide on a plan of action if any tracks are present.
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Conservation rankings — SLH TEACHING RESOURCE
Ranking species according to their risk of extinction is an important tool in conservation management. The Department of Conservation (DOC) spends almost 15% of its total budget on species conservation. Additional money is spent on related programmes, including the control of introduced species, mainland islands and fire control.