Browse by topic
Everything we have on one topic for New Zealand, from Year 1 up: lessons, practice and tools.
Maths
Fractions
Halves, quarters and beyond: equal parts, comparing and ordering fractions, equivalent fractions and adding them.
Decimals and percents
Tenths and hundredths, place value after the point, and percents as parts of 100.
Place value
Ones, tens, hundreds and beyond: reading, writing, comparing and rounding whole numbers.
Addition and subtraction
Number facts, mental maths strategies and multi-digit adding and subtracting.
Multiplication and division
Equal groups, arrays, times tables and dividing with and without remainders.
Money and financial literacy
Counting coins and bills, making change, saving and spending choices.
Telling time
Reading analog and digital clocks and working out how long things take.
Measurement
Length, mass, capacity, area, perimeter and volume, with real tools and units.
Geometry and shapes
2D and 3D shapes, angles, symmetry, location and movement on a grid.
Patterns and algebra
Repeating and growing patterns, unknowns, equations and simple coding.
Data and graphs
Collecting data, making and reading graphs, averages and chance.
Word problems
Reading a problem, choosing the operation and checking the answer makes sense.
Science
Living things and life cycles
What living things need, how they grow and change, and how they fit their habitats.
Ecosystems and food webs
Producers, consumers and decomposers, and how a change ripples through a food web.
The human body
Body systems, cells, senses and keeping healthy.
Matter and materials
Solids, liquids and gases, properties of materials, mixtures and reactions.
Forces and motion
Pushes and pulls, simple machines, magnets and building strong structures.
Energy and electricity
Forms of energy, circuits, and where our power comes from.
Light and sound
How light travels and makes shadows and colours, and how sound is made and heard.
Weather and seasons
Daily and seasonal changes, measuring weather, and climate.
Rocks, soil and water
Rocks and minerals, soil, erosion and the water cycle.
Space and the solar system
The Sun, Moon and planets, day and night, and the phases of the Moon.
Science investigations
Asking a question, planning a fair test, measuring and explaining what happened.