Term Two 2025
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
Measuring the Mighty: Maths Adventures in Kauri Education
Waikato schools learn key maths concepts through rich tasks related to their local forest and grounds, building skills and values. Thanks to the Waikato Regional Council for sharing this story, with specific links to the new maths and stats curriculum for Yrs 0 - 8.
Hangarau: Sustainable, Relational Practice
Continuing our collaboration with Technology Education NZ, we have a new Spotlight that explores the connections between environmental education and Hangarau, Te Marautanga o Aotearoa. Huge thanks to Ruth Lemon for her work on this article, which includes a useful overview of Kaupapa Māori education in Aotearoa.
Climate Education: A Teacher’s Perspective
Teacher Angela Raynor shares an honest account of her journey towards becoming a more confident teacher of climate change education, including curriculum links and examples of student creativity and community action.
Young People's Voices in Community Decision Making
This article by educator Sian Carvell explores the importance of children and young peoples' rights in climate education and action.
Nature Connection for Aotearoa Educators
We have updated and added more content to this Spotlight, which provides an introduction and overview for educators to explore and strengthen nature connection, both personally and with your students. Webinar recordings are added to this page, with our Nature Connection in Early Childhood video available now.
New Teaching Resources
Native Trees Printable Cards, from Kids Greening Taupō, with photos, ID tips and interesting facts.
Freshwater biosecurity: Invasive Clams, online resources from Kids Greening Taupō.
Aquatic Bug Bags, learning inquiry from Enviroschools Waitaha for creating habitats in streams and rivers.
Awhi Awa | Embrace a Stream - Stormwater and freshwater education pack including drain labels, classroom resources and instructions to help care for your stream.
Our environment 2025 Tō tātou taiao Science Learning Hub article to support the recent MfE and Stats NZ report.
Carbon Sinking in Schools from Zero Waste, Zero Carbon website with free PDF activities and instructional videos to help students turn food scraps into a powerful tool against climate change.
Pepeketua of Aotearoa produced by NZFrogs, the Pepeketua of Aotearoa series includes four booklets with accompanying posters, each available in either te reo Māori or English. There are also two special topic posters: What makes our Pepeketua special? and Protecting our Pepeketua.
Wild Fixes card sets from SustainedFun, helping connect people with nature and each other.
Professional Learning Resources
NZAEE Webinar Recording: Nature Connection in Early Childhood, with case studies from Marlborough Kindergarten Association.
TENZ Webinar recording: Pōhatu Penguins Project - designing the virtual and Minecraft world. Pōhatu Penguins and the Helps Pōhatu Conservation Trust (in Waitaha | Canterbury) wanted to create an educational resource that would enable users to explore and experience the colony from anywhere in the world. The outcome has been to create a web-based virtual version of the colony and a Minecraft Education world, backed by a teaching resource website.
TENZ Webinar recording: Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Competition - Learn about Samsung’s Solve for Tomorrow, a national competition for Year 7-13 students in Aotearoa New Zealand. This challenge empowers students to address social, environmental, or economic issues using STEAM and design thinking. Aligned with NZC and TMoA, the competition promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving while engaging students with real-world challenges. Perfect for technology and science educators, this webinar will explore how to get involved, inspire innovation, and help students develop future-focused skills that make a tangible impact in their communities.
Education Gazette Articles
Ākonga take ownership of their learning through forest school, published October 2024. To boost confidence and provide ākonga with opportunities to safely take risks, St Joseph’s School in Feilding started a forest school programme, allowing tamariki to follow their interests while learning life skills and how to be kaitiaki of the ngahere (forest).
Connecting to wellbeing through kai at Kereru Park Campus, published March 2025. At Kereru Park Campus wellbeing is at the heart of everything. Through kai, wai, and physical activity, the school has strengthened relationships with whānau to create a culture that reflects and nourishes its community.
Īnanga investigation weaves local ecology into learning at Summerland Primary, published March 2025. Learning is powerful when it connects ākonga with their environment, their communities and each other. Partnering with community organisations, Summerland Primary School in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland has been part of an investigation into the native fish calling their local waterways home, deepening their understanding of place and discovering their role in protecting native species like īnanga (whitebait).
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