Explore different bird beaks and food types in a hungry hippos style competitive teams game.

Hide and seek macroinvertebrates identification/scavenger hunt.

Use your senses to discover the sights, sounds, smells, and living things around your local stream, river, or lake. This activity helps you slow down, look closer, and wonder about the world of water near you.

Head outdoors and explore your local nature space to discover the incredible world of invertebrates!

Learn about adaptations and create a creature that would be well adapted to becoming a ‘pest’ here in Aotearoa.

Get to know some native and introduced creatures through their identifying features, food sources, poo and tracks in our tracking game.

Study the feet, features and beaks of some of Aotearoa’s native birds, then test your identification skills.

Let’s dive into nature’s recycling heroes! Investigate which decomposers play a part in breaking down different types of resources.

How many different shapes can you find in nature?

Using our senses: What can you hear in nature?

Mugford Reserve (Christchurch) 5min Bird Survey Sheets.

Discover other parts of nature which have similar features to our funky carnivorous plants!

Get to know giant forest trees from their bark, leaves, and fruit, cones, or seeds.

Let’s compare the size of a mighty Kahikatea to some of our native species.

We’ve created a game to introduce you to macroinvertebrate community index sampling methods!

Easter Inspired: Match the Eggs to the Critter Game.

Identification sheets for marine species on the rocky shore and underwater.

Venom, sting, charge/trample/kick, bite, and pierce/pinch are all strategies to get rid of danger, learn who uses what.

Investigate different rocks, how they have been formed, and identify local rock types.