Resources & links

Event coordinators

Download the the Seaweek events flier template (Word, 360K) to promote your local events and activities.

Teachers

Seaweek is about exciting and inspiring all New Zealanders to renew their connections with the sea and explore what the sea means to different people - be it the love of fishing, a place where we work, go scuba diving, enjoy the tranquility of a deserted beach at dawn, observe birds and sea mammals, or simply a place where we can relax with friends and family over the summer.

We can't give our ocean too much aroha (love) or mana (respect).

Toitū te marae a Tāne, Toitū te marae a Tangaroa, Toitū te Tangata

If we care for the resources of the land and the sea, we, the people, will survive

Posters

Use our three Seaweek posters to stimulate your students' learning:

Southern royal albatross	Our impacts	Little blue penguins
A3 English (PDF, 902K) A southern royal albatross soars over the southern ocean. Learn about the work being done to promote fishing practices that avoid albatrosses getting accidentally injured or killed in fishing trawl lines. Find out more in the Southern Seabirds Solutions teaching resources.	A3 English (PDF, 3,064K) A collage depicting the impacts that people have on the sea. This is a great graphic for stimulating discussion, research, inquiry and action. Find out more on the Seaweek website.	A3 English (PDF, 1,702K) Little blue penguins being released back into Tauranga Harbour, after being rescued from oil spilt from the container ship Rena, which ran aground in 2011. Find out more on the Maritime New Zealand website.

More teaching resources

• Seaweek website
  
• Starters and Strategies Seaweek 2012 teaching resource

• What's the impact? (PDF, 183K)
  An education unit that has six activities to help children understand the impact people can have on life in and around the sea. The activities in the unit focus on:
• • people living close to the sea
  • how seals / kekeno behave and how we can protect them
  • the importance of marine reserves
    
• Protecting our seas brochure (PDF, 679K)
  Information on marine biodiversity, people pressures, marine reserves, the tools to protect marine areas and how to establish marine protected areas.
  
• Protecting our seas DVD
  View clips from the Protecting our seas DVD.
  
• Meet the Locals video clips. Mini-documentaries about New Zealand's unique marine species and habitats.
• • Poor Knights
  • Hector's dolphin
  • NZ fur deal
  • Goat Island Marine Reserve
  • Kaikoura
    
• DOC's marine reserves education kit
  
• The University of Auckland's marine laboratory Marine Reserve Education and Action Kit. Call Leigh to ask for a copy, phone +64 9 422 6111

Useful websites

• Birdlife International
• Experiencing Marine Reserves
• Island Bay Marine Education Centre
• Kiwi Conservation Club
• Ministry for the Environment New Zealand's Oceans Policy
• Ministry of Fisheries
• National Institute of Water and Atmospheric (NIWA)
• New Zealand Association for Environmental Education
• New Zealand biodiversity
• New Zealand legislation database
• New Zealand penguins
• "No Take" marine reserves (Dr Bill Ballantine's website about marine reserves in New Zealand)
• Portobello Marine Lab
• Royal Albatross Centre
• Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand
• Seanet
• Setting course for a sustainable future:The management of New Zealand's marine environment (A 1999 report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment)
• Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) New Zealand
• Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust

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