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Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

Food

Food gives us energy, it helps us grow and it tastes good. We can get sick if we don't eat the right amount or right kind of food, or if we don't prepare it ...

Entry last updated: 14/04/26

Image: Dairy farming in Northern Auckland, a Waikiekie homestead (https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/166381/rec/3) by [unknown]. Collection: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19010322-08-02. No known copyright. Image cropped.

Transforming environments

This entry explores changes made by settlers to Aotearoa's natural environment, their naming of places and features, and efforts to conserve and restore its ...

Entry last updated: 14/05/24

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Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

Seas

Seas can be partly enclosed by land or completely enclosed by land. Some seas are part of an ocean like the Tasman Sea in the Pacific Ocean. Some seas are ca...

Entry last updated: 18/03/26

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Civil Rights Movement (USA)

Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)

The American Civil Rights Movement was a movement in the 1950s and 1960s for racial equality, especially in the Southern States of America where there was se...

Entry last updated: 14/11/24

Image: Scenic mix of beef and wind farming... (50081260031) (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scenic_mix_of_beef_and_wind_farming..._(50081260031).jpg) by Geoff McKay on Wikimedia Commons. CC by 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Senior Secondary (Years 11 - 13)

Sustainability

A sustainable world is one that can last over time. It includes practices that meet our current needs and those of future generations. Sustainability applies...

Entry last updated: 22/07/25

Image: Statue of Pania of the Reef. Napier, New Zealand (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_Pania_of_the_Reef,_Napier,_New_Zealand_(27268691771).jpg) from Archives New Zealand on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

People of Hawke's Bay

Here are some sources you could look at if you'd like to find out about individual people or groups of people from Hawke's Bay.

Entry last updated: 14/05/24

Image: Participants in the Land March crossing the Harbour Bridge, 1975 (https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/319869/rec/4) by the New Zealand Herald. Collection: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 589-0307. No known copyright. Image cropped.

Mana in Māori society

This entry has websites to help you understand the different meanings of mana and its importance in political, social and traditional relationships in Māori ...

Entry last updated: 14/05/24

Senior Secondary (Years 11 - 13)

Physics

Everything on earth and everything in the universe moves and interacts, and forces play a big part in that. Physics studies those forces and interactions. Ph...

Entry last updated: 10/07/25

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Transforming te taiao

This entry will help you find information on the changes made to the environment by pre-European Māori, and their care and connections to te taiao (the natur...

Entry last updated: 14/05/24