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  • Amazing adaptations

    Auckland Botanical Gardens: Adaptation and biodiversity in the plant world. Available: All year Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Animal genetics and selective breeding

    Ambury Regional Park: Learn about the role of genetics in farming. Available: Term 1 only Students: Secondary school

  • Arataki nature trail

    Waitākere Ranges Regional Park: Explore the rich biodiversity and history of our native forest Available: All year Students: Primary, intermediate and secondary

  • Arataki nursery adventure

    Waitākere Ranges Regional Park: Learn about growing native plants. Available: All year Students: Primary, intermediate and secondary

  • Arataki Visitor Centre

    Waitākere Ranges Regional Park: Interactive displays and information on the history and ecology of the area. Available: All year Students: Primary, intermediate and secondary

  • Biodiversity alert!

    Waitākere Ranges Regional Park: New Zealand's unique bird biodiversity has changed over time. Available: All year Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Biological impacts of pest control (sci1.12)

    Waitākere Ranges Regional Park: Pest control in maintaining forest biodiversity Available: All year Students: Secondary

  • Bush camp - 1883

    Waitākere Ranges Regional Park: Bringing local history to life Available: All year Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Close encounters of an animal kind

    Ambury Regional Park: Meet the farm animals and learn how to care for them. Available: All year. Cows milked terms 3 and 4 only Students: Primary

  • Coastal biodiversity detectives

    Long Bay Regional Park: Learn about biodiversity of the coastal environment Available: All year Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Create your own garden

    Auckland Botanical Gardens: Learn about the lifecycle of plants and basic gardening skills Available: All year Students: Primary school

  • Discover farming

  • Fabulous fibres

    Ambury Regional Park: Discover where animal fibres come from and how they are used. Available: All year Students: Primary

  • Farming technology - primary and intermediate

    Ambury Regional Park: Learn how technology has shaped life on a farm. Available: Terms 1 and 4 Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Farming technology - secondary

    Ambury Regional Park: Learn how technology has shaped life on a farm. Available: Terms 1 and 4 Students: Secondary school

  • Friends and foes in the garden

    Auckland Botanical Gardens: Healthy plants attract healthy invertebrates and fend off harmful pests Available: All year Students: Primary and intermediate school

  • Green roofs, green thumbs

    Auckland Botanical Gardens: Technical and green solutions to stormwater management. Available: All year Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Green waste to garden gold

    Auckland Botanical Gardens: Nature's recycling system can be harnessed to compost organic waste Available: All year Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Harakeke weaving and propagation

    Auckland Botanical Gardens: Growing, harvesting and weaving flax following Māori protocol Available: All year Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Healthy waterways, healthy people

    Long Bay Regional Park: How people influence life in our waterways Available: All year Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Investigating invertebrates - Auckland Botanical Gardens

    Auckland Botanical Gardens: Learn about the important role invertebrates play in our environment Available: All year Students: Primary

  • Investigating invertebrates - Waitākere Ranges Regional Park

    Waitākere Ranges Regional Park: A look at the amazing diversity and adaptations of invertebrates Available: All year Students: Primary

  • Keep Kauri Standing

    Waitākere Ranges Regional Park: Kauri trees are unique and under threat Available: All year Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Let's focus on trees

    Auckland Botanical Gardens: All about tree - their parts, lifecycles and relationship with animals Available: All year Students: Primary

  • Magical migrants

    Ambury Regional Park: Discover the role of wetlands in supporting seabirds and their migratory habits. Available: Selected dates, October to March Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Marvellous manu (birds)

    Auckland Botanical Gardens: Learn about biodiversity, sustainability and taking action for native birds and their environment Available: All year - August and September are best Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Milking it!

    Ambury Regional Park: Follow the journey of milk from cow to kitchen. Available: Terms 3 and 4 Students: Primary

  • Milky whey

    Ambury Regional Park: Follow the journey of milk from cow to shop. Available: Terms 3 and 4 Students: Primary

  • Muriwai field trip (geography)

    Muriwai Regional Park: Natural processes shape the landscape and create features over time. Available: All year Students: Secondary students

  • Natives in a nutshell

    Auckland Botanical Gardens: Learn about our native plants and practice the skills to grow them Available: All year Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Outdoor challenge - Ambury Regional Park

    Ambury Regional Park: Working together to have fun and stay safe in the outdoors. Available: All year round Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Outdoor challenge - Auckland Botanical Gardens

    Auckland Botanical Gardens: Working together to have fun and stay safe in the outdoors Available: Terms 1 and 4 Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Outdoor challenge - Long Bay Regional Park

    Long Bay Regional Park: Working together to have fun and stay safe in the outdoors. Available: All year Students: Primary

  • Seaside sensational senses

    Long Bay Regional Park: Using our senses to discover the coast Available: All year Students: Primary

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  • Volcanic discovery

    Ambury Regional Park: Learn how volcanic activity has shaped Auckland's landscape. Available: Terms 1, 2 and 4 Students: Primary and intermediate

  • Volcanic hazards and landforms

    Ambury Regional Park: Learn how volcanic has shaped Auckland's landscape. Available: Terms 1,2 and 4 Students: Secondary

  • Wai Care - primary, intermediate students

    Waitākere Ranges Regional Park: Freshwater science Available: All year Students: Primary and intermediate students

  • Wai Care - secondary students

    Waitākere Ranges Regional Park: Freshwater science Available: All year Students: Secondary students

  • Zero waste heroes

    Waitākere Refuse and Recycling Centre: Learning how to make good use of things put out in the rubbish. Available: All year Students: Pre-school, primary, intermediate, secondary

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