Resources & Links

Education - Teaching

Kiwi Conservation Club (KCC)
Global Focus Aotearoa
Environmental Monitoring and Action Project (EMAP)
Nga Manu Nature Reserve
Take Action for Water - Greater Wellington Regional Council
Department of Conservation - Poneke Area
Waste Minimisation Support for Schools In Porirua City
Enviroschools Programme

Kiwi Conservation Club (KCC)

The Kiwi Conservation Club is the kids section of Forest & Bird and aims to encourage New Zealand kids to enjoy, empathise with and understand the New Zealand environment and the plants, animals and insects that call it home. We produce the Wild Things magazine 5 times a year which presents information on topics such as Marine Reserves, Wetlands, Rats, Native Birds and Night Time. Memberships are available from $19 per year. For more information see http://www.kcc.org.nz/ or contact Jenny Lynch at j.lynch@forestandbird.org.nz for a free sample magazine.

Global Focus Aotearoa

Global Focus Aotearoa provides information and education on on global and development issues. They create primary and secondary school magazines and teacher resource kits that provoke critical thinking and make learning fun. Focused on a variety of global issues, both the resources and magazines include different activity styles to cater to a range of learning needs. Resource kits are tried out in Aotearoa New Zealand classrooms, and teacher and student feedback is considered in the production of all our materials. All resources are also linked to the New Zealand curriculum.

Visit www.globalfocus.org.nz for more information.

Check out some of latest resources on environmental and sustainability issues. Global Issue magazines can be sent free to secondary schools and Small World issues to primary schools. These can also be down loaded for free (see below).

Global Issues Magazine

Environmental Monitoring and Action Project (EMAP)

The Environmental Monitoring and Action Project (EMAP) is a national environmental education programme funded by the Ministry of Education under its LEOTC fund. A range of resources to help schools report on the health and/or assess aspects of their local environment in areas such as hydrology (water), atmosphere (weather) and soils are available. These include videos, curriculum planners, ID cards, stickers and more. For more information visit http://www.emap.rsnz.org/ or contact Rebecca Goffin, EMAP National Coordinator, at rebecca.goffin@royalsociety.org.nz or 04 470 5772.

Nga Manu Nature Reserve

Nga Manu offers free to download study sheets and power points on a range of environmental subjects available at http://www.ngamanu.co.nz/. Also, for anyone that requires images of flora and fauna our Nga Manu has the http://www.ngamanuimages.org.nz/ website that has a range of free to download images of flora and fauna for students and teachers.

Take Action for Water - Greater Wellington Regional Council

Take Action for Water is an integrated teaching and learning programme for Year 5-8 students. It addresses issues relating to stream health and aims to empower students to take action for the environment. It is free to all primary and intermediate schools in the Greater Wellington region. The programme scaffolds new learning for students over the course of a term and covers native ecosystems, human impacts, an explore day to a local stream and an opportunity for students to take action over an environmental issue.

The programme includes a complete resource kit, facilitator support and funding to cover the bus for the explore day and $300 for Take Action projects.

For more information contact the Environmental Education for Sustainability Team on 04 804 1029

Department of Conservation - Poneke Area

The Poneke Area of the Department of Conservation has site based education resource kits. All these kits provide pre-visit, post-visit and on-site activities interwoven with sustainability education and designed to fully engage kids as they explore the areas. All three resources are available to download from the DOC website Student and Teachers pages: http://www.doc.govt.nz/by-region/wellington/getting-involved/students-and-teachers/

The Matiu/Somes Island environmental education kit includes curriculum linked activities focussing on ecology, conservation and restoration, history and people and the island today. To book kits contact the Wellington Visitor Centre on 04 4708595, wellingtonvc@doc.govt.nz
The Rimutaka Forest park environmental education kit explores cultural sites, native bush, wildlife habitats, river catchments, mountain ranges and more in Rimutaka Forest Park. For the kit, contact the Poneke Area Office on 04 472 5821.
Wellington's Seascape Mural environmental education resource is based around the seascape mural at Wellington's Oriental Bay and is designed to develop understanding of conservation issues in the marine environment. Available by website download.

Waste Minimisation Support for Schools In Porirua City

Trash Palace Waste Minimisation Education Programme (for Porirua Schools)

The Trash Palace Education Centre has developed a zero waste education programme specifically for schools and children. The teaching focuses on the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle and the three key concepts of environmental education: sustainability, personal and social responsibility and interdependence.

A typical day schedule includes:

A short trip up to Spicer landfill* and tour of Trash Palace

* Please note that landfill visits are at the discretion of the landfill manager and may be cancelled at short notice if circumstances require it. If a cancellation occurs a suitable replacement activity will run in that part of the programme.

A stimulating workshop at the purpose built Education Centre on site
Learning activities to support on-going action at your school

A follow-up visit to your school to support the on-going action at your school is also part of the programme.

Limited funded places in the Education Programme are available to Porirua Schools. The Programme is available to schools outside the Porirua area (subject to availability) but fees will apply.

Enviroschools Programme

Enviroschools is a national programme that aims to create a whole school approach to environmental education. Schools are supported to become more sustainable and are rewarded when they reach a level of achievement.

There are currently 587 Enviroschools nationally, including the following six Enviroschools in Porirua City: Glenview School, Katoa Kindergarten, Plimmerton School, Porirua School, Pukerua Bay School and Titahi Bay School.

Other Waste Minimisation Support for Schools

Recycling, composting and worm-farming support for schools is available, upon request and subject to availability.

Fun and Interesting Educational DVDs

There are 2 DVDs available for schools -

Towards Zero Waste - Exploring recycling with Transpacific AllBrite Ltd and Spicer Landfill

Towards Sustainable Living - Explore And Learn About Being More Sustainable And Reducing C02 Emissions, At Home And At School

Further information

For further information on any of the above programmes, please contact Dee Jones, Zero Waste Co-ordinator at Porirua City Council, email djones@pcc.govt.nz or phone (04) 237 1475.