Stuff for Students
- International Polar Year
- Climate and weather
- Estuaries
- Common climate and weather terms
- Common Hydrological Terms
- Climate change, global warming and greenhouse gases
- El Niño and La Niña
- Layers of the Atmosphere
- Climate for Students - UV & Ozone
- Drought
- Storms and Cyclones
- Clouds
- Ideas for projects using climate data
If you’re wondering about water or atmospheric science, have a look at our Frequently Asked Questions or follow some of the Links we’ve collected for other good websites. Teachers will find additional material in our Activities and Classroom Resources.
Climate and weather
New Zealand climate, climate terms, climate change, ozone and UV, storms and cyclones, climate projects and more
Estuaries
What are estuaries and why are they important?
What are the different types of estuaries and how are they formed?
Hydrology
Common hydrological terms
Oceans
The Iron Hypothesis
is an educational resource based on the SOIREE iron fertilisation experiment in the Southern Ocean. It is published by the Royal Society of New Zealand as number 106 in their Alpha series.
Marine Biodiversity, written by Dennis Gordon and published by the Royal Society of New Zealand as Alpha 108, is a beginner’s guide to the topic.
Spongy Skeletons
The article Spongy Skeletons has been reproduced here from School Journal, Part 2, Number 3, 2004 (ISSN 0111 6355, Item number SJ2304) published by Learning Media Limited.
spongy_skeletons.pdf- Material from Spongy Skeletons reproduced by permission of the publishers Learning Media Limited, PO Box 3293, Wellington, New Zealand. Copyright © Crown, 2004.
- Article and photographs reproduced by permission of the author, Jill MacGregor.
- Sea sponge illustrations (from A.W.B. Powell, Native Plants and Animals) reproduced by permission from the Auckland Museum.
- International Polar Year
- Climate and weather
- Estuaries
- Common climate and weather terms
- Common Hydrological Terms
- Climate change, global warming and greenhouse gases
- El Niño and La Niña
- Layers of the Atmosphere
- Climate for Students - UV & Ozone
- Drought
- Storms and Cyclones
- Clouds
- Ideas for projects using climate data