Suggested Activities:
Bee-Bot Rides the Rivers
Send Bee-Bot on a trip around New Zealand’s 10 largest rivers:
This can be an activity where the children are divided into groups or a split class, or may be
used as an activity on a task board where the children complete the activity as individuals.
1. Divide the question cards between the player or the group
2. A student will take the top card and turn it over.
3. Read the question and if in a group discuss it or as an individual decide where
Bee-Bot might be.
4. When an answer is decided. Programme Bee-Bot to get to the picture on the mat
or.
5. Answers may be checked by printing out the teachers notes or saving them as a
PDF format and sending them to ipads/tablets or emails for the children to read.
6. If the answer is correct, the question card is kept, if incorrect, the question card is
passed to the left for the next player to answer.
7. Winner or winning team is the player/players at the end with the most question
cards.
Matching Pairs
Match the pairs of question cards and clue cards.
1. Spread the question and the clue cards face down.
2. Match the Clue cards and the question cards.
3. Send Bee-bot to that region with the picture in it.
What Region am I?
1. Share the river picture cards out between a group of children, but do not show
anybody else.
2. Take it in turns to give descriptions of the region they have whilst the others listen
and try to identify the correct river.
n estimated
What river translated in Maori means
flowing water?
What river rises in the eastern slopes
of Mount Ruapehu and empties into
Lake Taupo?
What river is also known as Mata-Au?
What river suffered through the
‘Hundred Year Floods’?
What river is NZ’s longest navigable
river?
What river is home to the ‘Bridge to
Nowhere’?
What river means ‘spring tide’ in
Maori?
Which river is 200km long but only
20km of it is navigable?
What river is well known for its sheer
cliffs of papa (clay)?
The port of this river was washed
away in a storm and never rebuilt.
Which river was this?
What river is renowned as a source of
brown trout?
What river enters the Pacific Ocean at
Toetoes Bay?
What river is home to several species
of endangered native birds, most
notably the Takahe?
Which river doubled as the fictional
River Anduin in the Lord of the Rings
first film for the scenes where the
Uruk-hai chase the Fellowship along
the river bank.
Which river runs through New
Zealand’s largest farm?
Which river is 160 Kilometres long
and is located in the South Island of
New Zealand?
Which river runs through the area
very important to New Zealand’s
astronomy?
Which river forms a political
boundary in the middle of its river
bed?
Which river is sometimes referred to
as New River?
Which river ends in Invercargill?
 New Zealand’s largest
river
 Situated in the North
Island
 425 kms long
 Empties into the Tasman
Sea
 Second longest river in
New Zealand
 Situated in the South
Island
 338 kms long
 Empties into the Pacific
Ocean
 New Zealand’s third
largest river
 Situated in the North
Island
 290 km long
 Empties into the Tasman
Sea
 Fourth largest river in
New Zealand
 Situated in the South
Island
 288 km long
 Empties into the Pacific
Ocean
 Fifth largest river in New
Zealand
 Situated in the North
Island
 241 km long
 Empties into the Tasman
Sea
 Sixth longest river in New
Zealand
 Situated in the South
Island
 240 km long
 Empties into the Foveaux
Strait
 Seventh longest river in
New Zealand
 Situated in the South
Island
 217 km long
 Empties into the Foveaux
Strait
 Eighth equal longest river
in New Zealand
 Situated in the South
Island
 209 km long
 Empties into the Pacific
Ocean
 Eighth equal longest river
in New Zealand
 Situated in the South
Island
 209 km long
 Empties into the Pacific
Ocean
 Tenth longest river in New
Zealand
 Situated in the South
Island
 203 km long
 Empties into the Foveaux
Strait