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Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)

Christianity is the biggest religion in the world. It is based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or Jesus Christ. People who follow the religio...

Junior Secondary (Years 7 - 10)

People who lived during World War One and soon after left behind lots of diaries, photos, letters, manuscripts, and other such documents that recorded event...

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

Tsunami is a Japanese word that means 'great harbour wave'. These giant ocean waves are caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or landslides on the ocean...

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

Floods happen when large amounts of water from rivers, oceans, seas and lakes overflow onto land. This can result in the loss of lives, and the destruction o...

Regional Resources

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

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

Antarctica is mostly a frozen continent located at the South Pole. In this article we'll look at what makes Antarctica and the animals and plants that surviv...

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

The Arctic region is the area around the North Pole. It includes parts of countries like Russia, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Greenland, Canada, USA and...

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

A volcano is a vent (opening) in the earth's crust through which magma (molten rock within the earth) erupts to the surface as lava, a mixture of liquid rock...

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 Rotorua.

Senior Secondary (Years 11 - 13)

1080 is a poison that has been used in New Zealand since the 1950s to control the populations of invasive species such as possums, rats, stoats, deer and rab...