Educational Resources

ALPHA series of educational leaflets depicting science and technology with a New Zealand context, first published in 1980 by the DSIR, and now by The Royal Society of New Zealand (No. 85 onwards), for secondary and now primary schools.

1. The earthquake problem in New Zealand
2. How plants use phosphorus
3. The uptake of phosphate by plant roots
4. New fruit crops for New Zealand¥
5. Simulation modelling in agriculture
6. Volcanoes in New Zealand¥
7. Viruses and the control of insect pests
8. Nitrogen fixation and genetic manipulation
9. Chemistry of drugs in man
10. Fruit juice products in New Zealand¥
11. Charting New Zealand's seafloor
12. Petroleum exploration in New Zealand
13. Fossils¥
14. The DSIR Climate Laboratory
15. Plant tissue culture
16. Geological time¥
17. New Zealand's changing geography¥
18. Life in Antarctic lakes and rivers
19. Active earth deformation¥
20. Marine minerals around New Zealand
21. Maku lotus-a new legume of New Zealand's grasslands
22. The ironsands industry¥
23. Drink-driving crashes
24. Food composition 1. Carbohydrates
25. Food composition 2. Proteins
26. Food composition 3. Fats¥
27. Food composition 4. Minerals
28. Food composition 5. Vitamins
29. Cutting geothermal pollution
30. New fertilisers for New Zealand's agriculture
31. Botany Division, DSIR, Herbarium
32. Coal geology in New Zealand¥
33. Making synthetic gasoline for New Zealand: the Mobil process
34. Battery electric vehicles¥
35. Meteorite-the extraterrestrial
36. Time keeping in New Zealand
37. New Zealand lake¥
38. Soils information-vital for growing things better
39. Insect collecting
40. Cook Strait-the sea bed in motion
41. Tsunamis-a natural hazard
42. DSIR overseas aid in action
43. Pollination
44. Discovering New Zealand's ancient shorelines
45. The mineral skeleton of soils
46. The New Zealand Arthropod Collection
47. Speciality fruit crops for New Zealand
48. The world of soil micro-organisms
49. Sensory evaluation-the ultimate test for edibility
50. New Zealand's Southern Fiords-a marine wonderland
51. Control of insect pests by protozoa
52. Essential oils and their production¥
53. Insect rearing
54. Food additives
55. Tidal research¥
56. Forensic science in DSIR¥
57. Biomarker chemistry in petroleum exploration
58. Honeydew-a South Island beech forest resource
59. The sea in motion around New Zealand
60. Edgecumbe earthquake¥
61. Birds at risk-the threat of extinction
62. DNA fingerprinting-a question of identity
63. Cyclone Bola 1
64. Cyclone Bola 2
65. Electronics for agriculture
66. Atmospheric ozone
67. Pepino breeding-towards a new market¥
68. New Zealand horticulture-a taste of success
69. Islands of New Zealand
70. Conservation-the problem of endangered animals
71. Drugs in sport
72. Machine vision systems
73. Biological control of weeds
74. Gorse¥
75. Lead in the New Zealand environment
76. The new genetics
77. Measuring ocean waves with radar ‡
78. Climate change and New Zealand
79. Waiting for the big one! (earthquakes) ¥‡
80. The new superconductors ‡
81. Global rivers environmental education network¥
82. Computer networks ‡
83. Food for health ‡
84. Minerals: resources from the earth
85. Moas-the terrible birds of New Zealand ‡ "Who ate the last Moa?" (a 25 minute video, available for $40.00)
86. Biotechnology ‡
87. The glitter of gold ‡
88. ANTARCTICA, high, cold, dry, and windy ‡
89. ANTARCTICA, the seventh continent ‡
90. Forensic science‡
91. Your healthy heart-the beat goes on!‡
92. Marine invaders‡
93. Comets-bits and pieces flying around‡
94. Food irradiation‡
95. Wind power‡
96. Laura is a research biologist
97. Sibling rivalry-La Niña El Niño‡
98. Cardiovascular disease‡
99. Whale research‡
100. Radiation‡
101. Pets or pests?‡
102. New Zealand hoki‡
103. Limestone‡

¥ These ALPHAS are now out of print, but photocopies are available.

‡ These ALPHAS have work and/or fact sheets.

Prices:

Nos. 1-85 @ $3.00 each. No. 86 onwards (with work sheets) @ $5.00 each.

Class sets (minimum order 20 copies) of one title @ $1.00 each for Nos. 1-85 and from No. 86 onwards, $2.50 each. All prices include packing and postage (and GST) within New Zealand.