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After School Programs

We have some great after school programs to support your kids learning during National Science Week. Fizzics Education and Australian Environmental Education are delivering FREE online sessions.

SciFest 2021

After School Science Show – 16 – 19 August at 4pm

Food Science Show

Delving into food chemistry is designed by Fizzics Education for the 2021 National Science Week theme which is Food: Different by Design. This fun science show makes food science visible and memorable.

  • What is molecular gastronomy and how is used in modern food design?
  • Just how much energy is food – let’s release it with fire!
  • How is food preserved and why don’t we notice some preservatives when we eat it?
  • How can we tell that there are nutrients in food?
  • Making healthy choices in our diet

Backyard Biodiversity

Join Karen from Australian Environmental Education to talk about Backyard Biodiversity. Discover some of the amazing animals living in your local area and find out what you can do to protect them. Live Insects and a Live Green Tree Frog with join Karen during this event.

  • Classification: Living Things: Vertebrates and Invertebrates, Arthropods
  • Identification: Common groups Animals and Invertebrates, Habitats and Comparing features
  • Hands on investigation: Field works practices, Applying geographical tools and Observation
  • Sustainability: Protecting habitats and Saving species

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Online Learning resources

We have created a list of Australian education providers and websites that have great online learning resources. There are some great options to help your students and kids in class or at home.

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ABC Education

ABC Education brings you thousands of free, curriculum-linked resources for Primary and Secondary students and teachers.

ABC TV Education broadcasts two hours of dedicated education programming for school aged viewers nationwide each weekday from 10am – 3pm on ABC ME.

Live Streams

Sea EagleCAM is a live remote feed operating out of the BirdLife Discovery Centre in the Armory at Sydney Olympic Park close to the Parramatta River.

Taronga Zoo Sydney has set up 24/7 live-streaming cameras at so you can enjoy your favourite animals at any time of day.

Get up close with our animals from the comfort of your own home and discover more about WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo by watching our live streams below.

Virtual Tours

Australian Museum

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Australian National Maritime Museum – Virtual Endeavour

Great Barrier Reef

Macquarie Island Research Station

Melbourne Museum

Queensland Museum

Queensland Gallery of Modern Art

State Library of NSW

Sydney Opera House

Sydney Observatory

Find more virtual tours with Google Arts and Culture

Online resources

Fizzic Education has 150 Science Experiments online for FREE. Science experiments and project ideas using simple, low cost materials that teach science easily.

Australian Environmental Education has FREE Earth and Environmental Science resources with simple information and ideas.

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Celebrating NAIDOC Week

Celebrate NAIDOC Week 2021 with some amazing virtual excursions. There are some amazing programs and resources available for you and your students.

  • Weaving friendship bracelets
  • Aunty Kim and Liana
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NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life. The week is a great opportunity to participate in a range of activities and to support your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

NAIDOC Week Virtual Excursions

Heal Country 

These sessions from the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney will focus on the theme Heal Country and how you can incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander understandings and perspectives of Country into your lessons. The week of programming provides great opportunities to participate in and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and their cultures.

Sessions available 22 – 24 June

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Dreaming stories and traditional string making with Aunty Kim

Join Aunty Kim, a proud Joondaburri woman, as she gives her special Acknowledgment of Country in the beautiful Badu wetlands at Sydney Olympic Park. She will also teach the students how to give a traditional Wangal welcome that they can all do together!

  • Making String bracelets
  • Sting bracelets

Students will have the opportunity to hear the Dreaming Story about how Garrigan got his blue tongue and scales. This Dreaming Story will then be linked to a practical activity where the students will learn a traditional string making technique and make friendship bracelets.

Tuesday 13 July 9.15am, 10.15am & 11.15am

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Launch: Algae Innovation Challenge

How can we grow a greener future with algae?

Design a product or a process, using algae, that makes an existing product or process more sustainable. Get your students involved in the Algae Innovation Challenge. The Challenge is open to Stage 4 & 5 students across Australia.

Join us for the information session: 21 June at 3.30pm

This event is proudly brought to you by the UTS Deep Green Biotech Hub. Students will learn about the emerging, cutting-edge field of biotechnology as well as aspects of algae biology and design-thinking.

The Algae Innovation Challenge will develop students’ team-work, creative and scientific thinking, presenting and entrepreneurial skills vital for equipping the next generation of changemakers to reimagine ‘business as usual’ and build tomorrow’s green solutions, today.

Register your interest now

Visit the Algae Innovation Challenge website to find out more

The New South Wales Deep Green Biotech Hub (DGBH), located at the University of Technology Sydney, is supported by the NSW Government through the Boosting Business Innovation Program (BBIP). DGBH brings together researchers, SMEs, industry, start-ups, students and other stakeholders to propel NSW to the forefront of algae-based biotechnology innovation in Australia.

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Plant your History at Elizabeth Farm

Plant your History at Elizabeth Farm is a live, online virtual excursion. Students have the opportunity to explore the shared history of the Burramattagal people and European settlers on Darug Country, at the site of Elizabeth Farm in Parramatta, one of Australia’s oldest colonial/European residences.

FREE event on Thu 27 May 2021 at 2pm

Inquiry question

How important is Country to Aboriginal peoples and what ongoing impact has the arrival of settlers had on Aboriginal people and Country.

Curriculum links

Science    

  • ST1-5LW-T identifies how plants and animals are used for food and fibre products    
  • ST2-5LW-T describes how agricultural processes are used to grow plants and raise animals for food, clothing and shelter    

Geography    

  • GE1-1 describes features of places and the connections people have with places
  • GE1-2 identifies ways in which people interact with and care for places    
  • GE2-2 describes the ways people, places and environments interact
  • GE2-3 examines differing perceptions about the management of places and environments    
  • GE3-2 explains interactions and connections between people, places and environments

History  

  •  HT2.4 describes and explains effects of British colonisation in Australia
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Get involved in ExoLab-9

ExoLab-9 is a unique exobiology classroom experience. Your student can be involved in a science experiment where students from across the world compare their results with an identical growth chamber on the International Space Station (ISS).

Fizzics Education are the lead for the Australian component of this global education opportunity.

  • Join an international school community to share results & ideas along with the U.S. National Laboratory.
  • Collect and analyze data to identify the optimal combination of legume, bacteria, and soil to produce nodulation in the harsh environment of the space.
  • Engage in experimental design, data collection and analysis, writing and revising hypotheses, and communicating about what they’ve learned using evidence from their experiments.
  • Direct curriculum outcomes for high school and primary year groups.
  • Guided by experienced educators from Fizzics Education & Magnitude.
  • Find out about the equipment needed to be involved and the different ways that you can access this.

Find out how your school can be involved

Run an identical experiment in parallel with the International Space Station, in collaboration with Magnitude.io & Fizzics Education in your school. Join an international school community to share results & ideas along with the U.S. National Laboratory.

Register on the links below for your preferred Teacher Information sessions in June and July.

June 23 at 1:00 PM AEST
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June 23 at 4:00 PM AEST
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June 29 at 1:00 PM AEST
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June 29 at 4:00 PM AEST
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July 13 at 1:00 PM AEST
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July 13 at 4:00 PM AEST
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Gondwana Garden

Gondwana Garden live stream presented by the Australian Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens. Bring dinosaurs and plants live into your classroom in this thrilling experience for your students.
Go back in time to when Australia was part of Gondwana 165 million years ago and meet Winny the Australian Museum’s life size Muttaburrasaurus and discover dinosaur environments.





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Why Study Physics?

If you missed our live streaming event, you can view the recording here.

Why Study Physics? – A careers talk and Q&A presented by Dr Vanessa Moss

Are you ready to explore the secrets of the universe? Exploring the universe is one of the most amazing things we can do and astrophysicist Dr Vanessa Moss does it every day. Studying physics will allow you to see the world with a different perspective, to have insight into how things work, and to be curious about making new discoveries. Join Dr Moss as she shares her journey through her own career and describes the work of some of her peers who followed different career paths in physics.