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Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

Oil and gas are fossil fuels which means they are formed from fossils, which are the remains of animals and plants that lived long ago. Fossil fuels are used...

Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)

Buddhism is a belief system based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama who lived in the 6th century BC. He was called Buddha which means The Enlightened On...

Senior Secondary (Years 11 - 13)

European Art is a visual art that has many stylistic periods that show the topical subjects, artistic styles and social influences of that time. The stylisti...

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

Planets are round objects that move in circles around stars. There are 8 planets in our solar system (including Earth), and 5 dwarf planets. These planets mo...

Regional Resources

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.

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

Physics is the study of things known as matter and how they move. It is a huge topic. Physics includes the study of light, sounds, electricity and how every...

Senior Secondary (Years 11 - 13)

The visual arts are types of arts you can see. Some types of visual art are painting, drawing, video, crafts, photography, as well as physical objects like c...

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

Chemistry is a branch of science and is the study of matter. It describes states of matter. There are three states of matter - solid, liquid and gas, and the...

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

People have been interested in the Moon since ancient times. One of the reasons for this is that it is the most visible body in the sky, apart from the Sun. ...

Junior Primary (Years 1 - 4)

Almost three-quarters of the Earth's surface is water. Earth's water is always moving around the planet. As the sun heats the water in rivers and oceans, the...