A teacher resource about the Rena disaster of 2011. This pdf is free to download and includes a lesson plan overview and follow up activities. Teach your students about this important Tauranga Moana story - Aotearoa New Zealand's worst maritime environmental disaster.
Click here to open the Rena Teacher Resource PDF
** Add this product to your shopping cart if you would like a set of laminated A3 high res photos from the Rena disaster delivered to your school or kura. **
Hands on Tauranga also offers an Outreach session all about the Rena. Megan will come to your class or team and teach about the Rena disaster, bringing with her a taxidermied penguin, penguin puppets and other objects related to the Rena. Read more about this Outreach session and book here https://www.handsontauranga.co.nz/hot-info/outreach/
Read more at these links below
> https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/shipping-containers/rena-disaster
>https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1138-pollution-from-rena
House of Science has a resource kit 'Fossil Fuels / Ngā Koranehe' which includes learning about the impact of oil spills, and evaluating the effectiveness of a selection of materials and techniques used to contain and clean up oil spills on land and in the water. Check it out on their website under 'Science Kits' https://houseofscience.nz/science-kits/
The Tauranga Heritage Collection holds objects either from, or related to the Rena. Check them out here online
T-shirt > https://view.taurangaheritagecollection.co.nz/objects/27149/t-shirt-rena-disaster
Rena Compass > https://view.taurangaheritagecollection.co.nz/objects/28462/marine-compass-from-mv-rena
Sign, Rena Disaster > https://view.taurangaheritagecollection.co.nz/objects/27893/sign-rena-disaster
Date: Replica
Subject Area: Social Science, Science,
Specific Themes: Tauranga Moana, Mount Maunganui, Mauao, environment, oil, Port of Tauranga, Rena, shipping
Handling Collection Number: HC260