WEATHER and THE WATER CYCLE

Discover how weather works through multiple hands-on activities including;

  • Discuss - what is weather? establish prior knowledge.

  • Investigate - the water cycle, using pictures to model.

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

  • Test - hot air goes up with a balloon and warm water.

  • See - a tea bag rocket demonstrate hot air rising.

  • Create - condensation on a cold surface.

  • Discover - how to make a real cloud in a jar.

  • Explore - why rain falls.

  • Manipulate pipettes - to model rain in a jar.

  • Investigate lightning - through static electricity and a plasma globe.

  • Create a thunderstorm - predict and test how warm and cold temperature differences move water, our weather, and storms!

  • Discuss - temperature differences between Earths equator and poles.

  • Investigate – the movement of tornados in bottles.

TOPIC SURCHARGE

A surcharge of $50 per booking plus $10 per workshop applies to the weather workshop. This is to cover consumable materials and extended set up and pack up labour costs of this topic. 

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CURRICULUM LINKS; 

  • VEYLDF Learning Outcomes

    • Outcome 1, Identity - through hands-on science activities, children are supported to act with self-confidence and autonomy, seeking and accepting new challenges, and demonstrating initiative by asking questions.

    • Outcome 2, Connection – science workshops provide an opportunity for a shared group experience, where everyone participating is included and can contribute. Children often work with partners to share science activities, strengthening their connection to classmates. Science workshops reveal to children the science they use in daily life, and connect them to the bigger world of scientific knowledge.

    • Outcome 3, Wellbeing - inquiry-based science activities encourage perseverance and resilience in the face of new learning situations. Children experience wellbeing and a sense of achievement through hands-on learning.

    • Outcome 4, Learning - science workshops encourage children to be curious and enthusiastic about their learning. When given opportunities to generate questions about situations and phenomena, make predictions, carry out courses of action and evaluate results, children are expanding their scientific thinking skills. This creates learning dispositions that are essential for 21st century children, and underpin all future learning.

    • Outcome 5, Communication – science workshops introduce new vocabulary through scientific language. Children express and share their ideas. Scientific communication includes children’s recording/documenting of their findings.

  • Victorian Curriculum Content (F-2)

    • People use science in their daily lives (VCSSU041)

    • Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape; daily and seasonal changes affect everyday life (VCSSU046)

    • Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events (VCSIS050)

    • Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions (VCSIS051)

    • Compare observations and predictions with those of others (VCSIS054)

  • Australian Curriculum Content (F-2) 

    • Daily and seasonal changes in our environment affect everyday life (ACSSU004)

    • Everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways (ACSSU018)

    • Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape (ACSSU019) 

    • Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events (ACSHE013)(ACSHE021)

    • People use science in their daily lives, including when caring for their environment and living things (ACSHE022)

    • Pose and respond to questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS014)(ACSIS024)

    • Participate in guided investigations and make observations using the senses (ACSIS011)

    • Participate in guided investigations to explore and answer questions (ACSIS025)

    • Engage in discussions about observations and represent ideas (ACSIS233)

    • Use a range of methods to sort information, including drawings and provided tables and through discussion, compare observations with predictions (ACSIS027)

    • Compare observations with those of others (ACSIS213)

    • Represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways (ACSIS029)