Useful Links

Landcare groups

Landcare groups are about local communities taking action to address environmental issues in their area. Common issues addressed by landcare groups include water quality, erosion, pest management and native vegetation decline.

So, if there are any environmental issues in your area that need addressing e.g. your local streams need to be protected from stock, or your waterways and lakes are degrading in quality, you and your school could think about starting a landcare group.

Or are there any landcare groups in your area already that your school could join? Find out more about landcare groups and how you can get involved by following this link to Environment Waikato.

Environmental Education

Environmental education is about providing information, tools and support so people can make choices that have less of a negative impact on the planet. The aim is to motivate people and help them develop knowledge, skills, awareness, attitudes and values to protect and enhance our natural and physical environment.

Follow the link to Environment Bay of Plenty and find out about Enviroschools and available teacher resources (Environment Bay of Plenty School Lakes Programme).

To find an example of the teacher resources available on this website, click here, and you'll learn about the questions: 'What is water and where does it come from?', 'How does water flow?', 'What impact does our water use have?', 'What impact does our use of the land have on water qualtity?', and 'How clean is our local stream?'

Biozone International

Biozone International is a publishing house that specialises in the production of high quality student and teacher resources for senior biology in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and other countries which have embraced the resources for use in their biology teaching.

To find out more about the available recources or to get free samples follow the link to the Biozone homepage.