Healthy water

Environmental Monitoring and Action Project

EMAP ( Environmental Monitoring and Action Project) is an amalgamation of the National Waterways Project and GLOBE. Within the delivery of EMAP, Pollution Detectives have the opportunity to scaffold from using simple equipment into gathering hydrological (and other) data. This data can be of value to scientists the world over as well.

Up the creek

The Department of Conservation has an interactive bilingual teaching resource about a waterway and its conservation called Up the Creek.

NIWA

NIWA involves secondary and primary schools in international and national initiatives including school science and technology fairs, Kelly Tarlton's Marine Discovery Room and their Sea & Learn programme. Niwa focuses on its core area of expertise which iswater and atmosphere. Teachers can use the NIWA publication “water and atmosphere”  to support classroom teaching.

Learnz

LEARNZ is an online education programme for students in New Zealand state, private and integrated schools. It offers 16 virtual field trip experiences each year for primary and secondary school students which enables students to visit places and interact with people whilst still in the classroom.