Pest control can be a particularly tricky topic to tackle in a New Zealand classroom.

But Kiwi teachers have worked out different ways to teach the sometimes uncomfortable subject to different groups of kids, recent research has found.

Dr Sally Birdsall, a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland focusing on science and sustainability education, interviewed educators on how they were tackling the difficult matter.

“We interviewed people who worked in primary schools who were carrying out predator control,” she told RNZ’s Nights on Tuesday.