Lesson Plans
Teaching resources for primary and secondary schools.
Topic | Lesson Name | Description | Age / Level |
Volcanoes | Lesson 1. Volcanoes: What is a volcano and where are New Zealand’s volcanoes? |
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Level 2 - 4 curriculum age 9 – 13 |
Lesson 2. Inside the Earth: What’s inside the Earth? |
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Lesson 3. The Crust: How does the crust move? |
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Lesson 4. Moving Plates: What pushes the plates along? |
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Lesson 5. Creating and Destroying Plates: What happens when plates move? |
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Lesson 6. New Zealand’s Plates: What’s happening with New Zealand’s plates? |
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Lesson 7. Magma: Why don’t all volcanoes look and act the same? |
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Lesson 8. Eruption Products: What can volcanoes produce? |
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Lesson 9. Making a Volcano: How can we make a volcano and use it to educate others? |
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Lesson 10. New Zealand Eruptions: What has happened in New Zealand’s recent eruptions? |
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Lesson 11. Monitoring Volcanoes: How and why are volcanoes monitored? |
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Lesson 12. Preparing for Eruptions: What will happen in future eruptions and how can we be prepared? |
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Lesson 13. Benefits of Volcanoes: What benefits do volcanoes bring to New Zealand? |
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Fossils | Lesson 1: Plant or Animal? |
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Level 4 curriculum age 12 – 14 |
Lesson 2: Macrofossils |
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Lesson 3: Microfossils |
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Fossil Casting |
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Level 1 - 3 age 6 - 12 |
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Earthquakes | Wellington Fault Field Trip |
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Level 3 - 7 curriculum age 8 - adult |
Shaky New Zealand |
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Level 5 - 6 | |
Ice & Snow |
Antarctica Lesson 1 Ice Streams, Ice Shelves and Ice Bergs of Antarctica |
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Level 4 - 6 curriculum age 12 - 16 . |
Antarctica Lesson 2 Making an Antarctic Ice and Water Flow Model |
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Antarctica Lesson 3 Antarctic Sediment Cores |
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Geology |
Think like a Geologist 1 What’s the story in a rock section? |
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Level 5 -6 curriculum |
Think like a Geologist 2 Making 3D geological block diagrams |
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Protecting against Geohazards | Create a model rockfall barrier Make a model to protect an area from rockfall |
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Level 3-4 technology curriculum age 10-14 |
Create a model sea wall Hands-on engineering challenge: |
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Create a model flood protection stop bank Test the water retention of the materials used |
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