Term Three 2026: New Resources, Stories & PLD

Term Three 2026

Our website continues to be updated with new teaching resources, stories and professional learning resources. This post is a snapshot of the content that has been added recently.

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NZAEE Spotlights

These resource collections have been updated for 2026 and will be relevant this term:

Rākau | Trees in our Learning Spaces

Matariki, Environment and Wellbeing

Kōanga | Spring Inspiration

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New Teaching Resources

Waha civics education resources, produced by YouthLaw in collaboration with rangatahi. In the lead up to this year's general election, explore the resources available and get in touch with the team if you would like to order hard copies of the activity sets. For those attending our national conference in October, you will get to try out the resources and hear more about how they were created!

Learn about and advocate for our native birds with these recently produced online toolkits:

Marine Mammal Card Game from Project Jonah

EARTHCARE Board Game available for purchase from Keep New Zealand Beautiful. Teacher resources to support Aotearoa educators will also be available soon.

Reducing emissions in schools and kura - not a new resource, but a reminder that schools can still request a copy of their carbon footprint from the MoE.

Kiwi Conservation Club Activities. If you have previously used the wonderful resources produced by the team at KCC, just a heads up that these are now hosted on Forest and Bird’s Sharepoint, rather than a separate website. If you have tried to access KCC activities using the old links, visit the link above instead and scroll down to browse the categories.

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Professional Learning Resources

Te Whakatika Autumn 2026 is full of rich environmental education stories and research, including these articles:

Porirua Climate and Rangatahi Voice by Dr Conor Twyford, Wairere Pene, Orini Rokx-Taratu, Amanda Dobson, Michele Whiting
Bridging the Gap - Environmental Studies by Yotam Kay
Making the Most of the Outdoor Classroom by Naomi Ishihara
Unconventional Spaces of Learning by Katie Earle and Dr Judy Bruce
Current Good Practice in EOTC by Jenny Langrish
Re-anchoring Wellbeing in Place by Erin Porteous

Secondary principals’ perspectives from the 2025 national survey Uiuinga ā-Motu o ngā Kura | New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Includes a section about how schools are responding to climate change, on pages 32 - 35.

Engineering Climate Action | Engineering NZ - we have just discovered this website which includes a huge range of webinars and case studies to help spark interest or inquiry with students. Strong links to STEM learning.

The Reality of Everything recordings from a recent event in Pōneke. We highly recommended watching the presentations from Mike Joy, Mahina-a-Rangi Baker, and co-presenters Ganesh R. Ahirao and Morgan Edwards. Each video is less than 15 mins long.

Te Tiriti Based Futures and Anti Racism - recordings available from the 2026 event. There are also specific videos from the Rangatahi programme (click on the Videos tab in YouTube and scroll down until you see the green tiles).

Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge systems and practices for climate survival | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - recent international research.

International Webinars and online PLD:

Australian Association for Environmental Education online PLD: Nature Connection for Primary School Teachers.

Connected to Place: Regenerating Nature, Community, and Local Economies Through Systems Change | eePRO webinar

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