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INCURSION TOPICS

We adapt each workshop topic to be age appropriate for your students.

Each workshop can be run as either a 60 min or 90 min session. See pricing here.

Curriculum links are available on each incursion topic page.



Topics: Kindergarten (3 and 4 yr old groups)

  • Bubble and Fizz

  • Science Mix - Shake, Shine, Fly

  • The Little Bang Discovery Club 4-week program

Topics: Primary School (Foundation - Year 4).

  • Light and Sound - or separately ‘light’ or ‘sound’

  • Push, Pull and Motion

  • Weather and the Water Cycle

  • Mighty Materials - Chemical science

    See below for more details on these topics.

 

BUBBLE and FIZZ

  • Learn to experiment! This workshop encourages the science mindset of curiosity, investigating, predicting and testing.

  • blow bubbles you can touch without popping!

  • use pipettes to mix and fizz!

  • create a lava lamp effect in test tubes!

  • and more...

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SCIENCE MIX - SHAKE, SHINE, FLY

  • Sounds shake! Lights shine! And objects fly! All the best bits from sound, light and motion topics.

  • each child explores their way through their own discovery box of science materials

  • mix coloured light with torches!

  • discover sound vibrations with sprinkles!

  • Launch a rocket balloon!

  • and more...

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The LITTLE BANG DISCOVERY CLUB

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  • a 4-week, hands-on science program for preschoolers, designed by the Children’s Discovery Museum, NSW.

  • Children get to learn, practice and build their foundational science skills over the duration of the program.

  • Session 1: sorting and classifying,

  • Session 2: measuring,

  • Session 3: predicting and testing,

  • Session 4: experimenting.

  • 4 hours Professional Development for attending teachers.

  • Receive the ‘Little Bang Book of Discovery’ from the Children’s Discovery Museum.

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LIGHT AND SOUND

  • You can also choose ‘light’ or ‘sound’ as separate workshops.

  • explore the characteristics of sound, light and colour.

  • make sprinkles dance to vibrations!

  • bend light with rainbow glasses!

  • investigate a musical coat hanger! and more...

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PUSH, PULL, and MOTION

  • investigate what makes objects move - discover push and pull forces.

  • launch rocket balloons!

  • explore motion with magnets!

  • spin tornado bottles!

  • move objects with static electricity!

  • and more…

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WEATHER and THE WATER CYCLE

  • This workshop models scientific enquiry with lots of predicting and testing concepts.

  • explore how weather works!

  • Investigate the water cycle!

  • Predict and test each part of the water cycle with a simple experiment that demonstrates; evaporation, condensation, and precipitation! and more...

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