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Image: Glass Plate Negative: Kate W. Sheppard (https://collection.canterburymuseum.com/objects/243177/glass-plate-negative-kate-w-sheppard) by Henry Herbert Clifford. Collection: Canterbury Museum. Ref: S62/1/2. Image cropped.

Kate Sheppard (1847–1934)

Kate Sheppard was born in England on 10 March 1847. She and her family moved to New Zealand in the late 1860s. Kate was a founding member of the Women's Chri...

Entry last updated: 30/09/25

Image: Caravan in the desert (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caravan_in_the_desert.jpg) by © Sergey Pesterev on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Sahara

The Sahara in North Africa is the largest desert in the world. It is 9 million square km, and contains a part of Western Sahara, Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria...

Entry last updated: 10/07/25

Image: Rohingya Refugees Camp in 2019.97 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rohingya_Refugees_Camp_in_2019.97.jpg) [cropped] by CAPTAIN RAJU on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Junior Primary (Years 1 - 4)

Refugees (junior)

Refugees are people who have to leave their home country. They escape war, persecution (bad treatment), or natural disasters.

Entry last updated: 7/04/25

Image: Statue of Ernest Rutherford by sculptor Paul Walshe, at the Rutherford memorial, Brightwater. Photograph by Louise Gribbon. Used with permission.

Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937)

Ernest Rutherford was born in Nelson, New Zealand in 1871. A great scientist, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908, the Order of Merit in 1925, ...

Entry last updated: 14/04/26

Image: Cave Stream In New Zealand 008 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cave_Stream_in_New_Zealand_008.jpg) by letisha81 on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Caves (New Zealand)

New Zealand is known for its limestone or karst caves and cave systems. Many are known for their formations and glow-worms. This entry will give you informat...

Entry last updated: 10/07/25

Image: Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) (26748321945) (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koala_(Phascolarctos_cinereus)_(26748321945).jpg) by patrickkavanagh on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Animals (Australia)

Australia has many different kinds of animals. They include native animals that are indigenous to Australia and are not found anywhere else, and introduced a...

Entry last updated: 8/12/25

Image: Skibladner replica Viking longship, Haroldswick - geograph.org.uk - 6298903 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skibladner_replica_Viking_longship,_Haroldswick_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6298903.jpg) by Mike Pennington on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Vikings

Around the 9th century AD, Vikings travelled from Scandinavia to raid towns and settlements around Europe and the British Isles. These seafaring warriors fro...

Entry last updated: 6/12/24

Image: Natures designs. (11285030584) (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Natures_designs._(11285030584).jpg) by Bernard Spragg. NZ on Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Native plants (New Zealand)

Native plants are plants that are indigenous to or originate from a specific country. New Zealand has a wide variety of native plants which are unique as the...

Entry last updated: 14/04/26

Image: The Babson World Globe (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Babson_World_Globe.jpg) by Bryan.Lipiner on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Countries of the world

Countries are made different by their history, politics, people, culture, economy, beliefs or religion, language and geography.

Entry last updated: 10/07/25