Education: Year 5 - 8 Programmes
Take on the challenge of designing and constructing bridges to meet a specific purpose. Working in pairs using K’NEX.
Areas Covered: types of bridges, basic engineering, forces, co-operative planning, designing, constructing, and modifying.
Explore the universe in our hands on astronomy programme. Areas covered include the moon phases, the planets of the solar system and lots more.
Areas Covered: moon phases, star and planet characteristics, our unique earth, space technology.
Introduce your students to electrical components. Design and build electrical circuits using ElectroFlash kits.
Areas Covered: circuit requirements and controlling electricity, conductors and insulators, and components including transistors and resistors.
Using Lego; students will investigate simple mechanisms to create machines to solve a design problem.
Areas Covered: machines make work easier, pulleys, levers, wheels, gears, co-operative designing, constructing, testing and modifying.
To replace Fantastic Forces we are working on a new physics based programme.
Areas to be covered:Newton’s three laws of motion, gravity, friction, air pressure, momentum, balance, and transfer of force.
Kick start your students laboratory skills with our favourite colourful chemistry experiments. Students carry out flame test, build sugar rainbows and explore acid/base reactions.
Areas Covered: laboratory skills including safety awareness, colourful flames, acids and bases and chromatography.
Introduce your students to electricity. Design and build electrical circuits and a take home night light.
$8.00 per student
Investigate the theft of a new recipe from Eaglebrook confectionary company.
Students, working in groups, carry out a range of investigations to identify the thief.
Technology is rapidly moving forward, give your students a head start with Science Alive! Robotics.