Site Index - Search box
Use the site search engine or scroll down for manual links
1) Pages sorted into school topics:
2) Special Interest Groups (SIG's) and other information
Earth and Beyond (Astronomy):
- Bill Pickering - A Kiwi at NASA - read about Dr Sir William Pickering
- Data logger substitute - Black Box data logger replacement - a PICAXE chip to record data anywhere, then download to your PC
- Data logger substitute - a computer mouse data logger replacement - save hundreds of dollars by teaching your mouse a new trick
- Data logger substitute - use a digital mutimeter as a data logger replacement - add any of these sensors to carry out great geology or atmospheric investigations!
- Data logger substitute - RIGEL - the Real-world Interative Games and Electronics Link; the ultimate data logger and games system for teachers and students
- Enviropower - New Zealands energy conservation and renewable energy pilot project
- Fake fossils - make your own "dinosaur bones"
- Lunar Lander game - use nothing but air to steer a spaceship to safety
- Microbiology experiments - the tiniest life on Earth gives clues as to life on other worlds
- Micro-meteors collect shooting stars
- New Plymouth Observatory - visit their website here
- Rocket models that fly! there are two different types here to make
- Science Fair download the entry form and the regulations plus heaps of project ideas!
- Scientific Journalism winner - Do the benefits of science outweigh the risks? As printed by the Royal Society
- Sensors from voltage dividers - make your own sensors for weather and astronomy experiments
- Solar System model - Make planets that float in mid-air!
- Stalagmites - create artificial limestone caves!
- Sun Gun - shoot the closest star to Earth with this telescope adapter
- Volcano model - make an eruption in your living room!
- The interactive pages...arrange the planets of our solar system
- The interactive pages...uncover the hidden secrets of each planet
Biology (Living World):
- Bacteria / plant symbiosis isolate your own culture of Rhizobium bacteria
- Data logger substitute - Black Box data logger replacement - a PICAXE chip to record data anywhere, then download to your PC
- Data logger substitute - a computer mouse data logger replacement - save hundreds of dollars by teaching your mouse a new trick
- Data logger substitute - use a digital mutimeter as a data logger replacement - add any of these sensors to carry out great biology investigations!
- Data logger substitute - RIGEL - the Real-world Interative Games and Electronics Link; the ultimate data logger and games system for teachers and students
- Build your own Mouse sensor save hundreds of $$ by teaching your mouse a new trick
- Caulobacter a medically important bacterium found in New Zealand waterways?
- Caulobacter student research - our research presented at Otago University, November 23rd 1999
- Crime Scene Investigation our award winning CSI course requires some applications of biology
- Digital multimeters for use a data logger substitutes
- DNA extraction - use our original protocol to extract human DNA in minutes!
- DNA fingerprinting - use our original protocol to seperate a mixture using electricity.
- Environmental isolation of Protozoa (these single celled animals are fun to watch, a great High School project. Thanks to the voluntary work of Maree Wright!)
- Electron Microscope - Photo Gallery Close up views of viruses, cells, and the UGLIEST creature on this site...the Stem Weevil!
- Lethal lunch boxes - another winning science fair project using a temperature sensor to monitor food spoilage
- Microbiology experiments - safer than growing unknown organisms! Lots of good ideas and techniques.
- Microscope from junk - recycle old school left-overs and see a whole new world!
- Micrograph viewer - share the view with a friend...
- Visit the National Center for Biotechnology Information to download GenBank genetic sequences.
- Nitrogen fixation in New Zealand pastures - free fertiliser?
- Oil spill bacteria -that degrade oil (hydrocarbon bioremediation)
- Rhizobium - isolate your own nitrogen fixing bacteria
- Safe micro-organisms to use in schools
- Science Fair download the entry form and the regulations plus heaps of project ideas!
- Scientific Journalism winner - Do the benefits of science outweigh the risks? As printed by the Royal Society
- Sensors from voltage dividers - make your own sensors for biology experiments
- Swine Flu in New Zealand: symptoms, treatment & pandemic planning
- Tissue culture - try the technique similar to the one used in cancer research and in cloning
- Webcam Microscopy - our research presented at Otago University, November 23rd 1999
- The interactive pages...discover how a microscope works
Chemistry (Material World):
- A chemical rainbow - a rainbow in a jar
- Butter
making in 1 easy step!
- Crime Scene Investigation our award winning CSI course requires some applications of chemistry
- Copper plating - turn everyday objects into jewellery by elctroplating
- Data logger substitute - Black Box data logger replacement - a PICAXE chip to record data anywhere, then download to your PC
- Data logger substitute - a computer mouse data logger replacement - save hundreds of dollars by teaching your mouse a new trick
- Data logger substitute - use a digital mutimeter as a data logger replacement - add any of these sensors to carry out great chemistry investigations!
- Data logger substitute - RIGEL - the Real-world Interative Games and Electronics Link; the ultimate data logger and games system for teachers and students
- Dyes and indicators make your own acid/base indicator solution
- DNA extraction - use our original protocol to extract human DNA in minutes!
- Electrophoresis -use our original protocol to seperate a mixture using electricity.
- Electricity from Lemons discover the power in fruit
- Lethal lunch boxes - another winning science fair project using a temperature sensor to monitor food spoilage
- Fire extinguisher and learning about burning things
- Glass making
- How the Chemical Elements got their name
- Invisible ink write secret messages for your friends
- Magic bottle that will amaze your friends!
- Another magic bottle
- Microbiology and nano-technology -the tiniest life forms hold fantastic chemical secrets
- Milk Glue is amazingly strong stuff!
- Mystery putty it bounces and stretches!
- Oil spill bacteria -that degrade oil (hydrocarbon bioremediation)
- Periodic Table: I like this one because it forces the students to learn the names and symbols of the elements. Microsoft Word format. Download
- Proteins a simple demonstration of the composition of proteins
- Rayon - a polymer carry out a polymerisation reaction
- Rechargable cells build your own rechargable "battery"
- Saline Cell Toys - SCT's demonstrate the power of playdough!
- Science Fair download the entry form and the regulations plus heaps of project ideas!
- Scientific Journalism winner - Do the benefits of science outweigh the risks? As printed by the Royal Society
- Sensors from voltage dividers - make your own sensors for chemistry experiments
- Sherbet and acids - acid you can eat!
- Tea ink another of the 1001 uses for tea
- Testing for acids using ingredients from the kitchen pantry
- Volcano model - make an eruption in your living room!
- Webcam Microscopy - use this system to video crystals growing on a slide
- Wonderful Copper plating - make leaves and flowers into metal plated earings and necklaces
- The interactive pages...identify these pieces of lab equipment
- The interactive pages...weird metals and gases hide in this Periodic Table
Physics (Physical World):
- Air pressure Is the bottle half empty or half full? Maybe it's never empty...
- Air Track save hundreds of $$ by building your own frictionless track!
- Bending light you don't have to be Superman to do this demonstration
- Bike Indicator - A Primary School student puts a PICAXE on her bike
- Bill Pickering - A Kiwi at NASA - read about Dr Sir William Pickering
- Crime Scene Investigation our award winning course requires some applications of physics
- Classroom noise meter - Safe Sound Indicator is the commercial version produced by the NFD
- Data logger substitute - Black Box data logger replacement - a PICAXE chip to record data anywhere, then download to your PC
- Data logger substitute - a computer mouse data logger replacement - save hundreds of dollars by teaching your mouse a new trick
- Data logger substitute - use a digital mutimeter as a data logger replacement - add any of these sensors to carry out great physics investigations!
- Data logger substitute - RIGEL - the Real-world Interative Games and Electronics Link; the ultimate data logger and games system for teachers and students
- Electricity from Lemons discover the power in fruit
- Enviropower - New Zealands energy conservation and renewable energy pilot project
- Floating - how can concrete float?
- Heavy skies how heavy is the sky?
- Laser Wars! - Play a combat game in broad daylight instead of in the dark! See the Terminator!
- Lethal lunch boxes - another winning science fair project using a temperature sensor to monitor food spoilage
- Lightning machine - and build a static electricity detector/ alarm!
- Lunar Lander - use nothing but air to steer a spaceship to safety
- Seeing magnetism in a bottle reveal the invisible "strings" that pull magnets together!
- Microbiology and nano-technology -the tiniest life forms build gears, motors and fantastic machinery
- Microscope from junk - recycle old school left-overs and see a whole new world!
- Mighty Mouse - Light follow/avoid modes, line follow mode and only 8 legs away from evolving into a Cyber Spider!
- Mini-submarine - this model is fun to make
- Mission: Impossible stunts in the classroom!
- Mission: Impossible game - Operate a nuclear reactor in this GameMaker simulation
- Motors and Generators learn to build your own in this award winning article!
- New Plymouth Observatory - visit their website here
- Physics experiments - Determine the value for g, the acceleration due to gravity on Earth. PDF format.
- PICAXE chips - cheap, easy to program chips with almost limitless potential
- Physics labels - you will never use!
- Rainbows make your own at will by using mirrors
- Radiometer - a curious toy for your window sill
- Rechargable cells build your own rechargable "battery"
- Robots - build a Dalek, learn about Cybot Bob, ALIS and the new PICAXE controller chips
- Rocket models that fly! there are two different types here to make
- Saline Cell Toys - SCT's demonstrate the power of playdough!
- Science Fair download the entry form and the regulations plus heaps of project ideas!
- Scientific Journalism winner - Do the benefits of science outweigh the risks? As printed by the Royal Society
- Sensors from voltage dividers - make your own sensors for the data logger or your PICAXE robot
- Seperating mixtures with an electric force field
- Simple Speaker - a musical motor!
- Solar System model - Make planets that float in mid-air!
- Sun Gun - shoot the closest star to Earth with this telescope adapter
- Toys make cyberpets and interactive toys!
The neXus Files:
- Gifted Children - support and ideas for teachers and parents, including case studies of interventions that worked very well.
- Science Fair download the entry form and the regulations plus heaps of project ideas!
- Designing experiments
- Making a public presentation
- Professional looking Science Fair and Conference posters
- Crime Scene Investigation our award winning CSI course
- Einstein's riddle
- Science Trivia
- Scientific Journalism winner - Do the benefits of science outweigh the risks? As printed by the Royal Society
- Wise Words
- What is Science? Does our school version of Science really measure up?
- What is the nature of science? What should 'doing science' look like in our classrooms?
- Dr Who? Build a Dalek or a TARDIS
- Who founded the NRG?
|
Home | Search | About Us | Science Fair | Technical data | Microbiology | Games Design | Robotics / Electronics | e-Learning ICT | Downloads | Gifted children | Teachers resources | Courses / workshops | Publications / papers |
All rights reserved