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AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2016 PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRAM 1

PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRAM

16–19 AUGUST 2016

2 AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2016 PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRAM AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2016 PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRAM 1

There is an amazing array of activities for you and your students to get involved in at this year’s Australian Museum Science Festival (AMSF) as part of the Australian Museum’s Month of Science.

For many years, the AMSF has offered a unique education experience for primary and secondary students and their teachers – in fact it’s the highlight of our science education year! The Science Engagement and Events team have made sure that AMSF 2016 is no exception; hundreds of Australia’s best science communicators and professionals will be on tap to answer questions and engage your students.

This year, we are pleased to bring you a huge range of hands on science and culture workshops and shows with a particular focus on Indigenous sciences and technical engineering to celebrate the National Science Week theme of ‘Drones, Droids and Robots’. The AMSF Expo is back with the best of the Australian science industry showing interactive demonstrations. It’s a fantastic way for students to understand how science benefits our everyday lives.

The AMSF could not exist without the support and participation of the many organisations and individuals who help ensure its high quality and diverse activities. I would particularly like to extend sincere thanks to our Major Partner 3M Australia and Festival Partner ANSTO; to our Academic Partner Western Sydney University; our Education Partners University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney, Macquarie University and Charles Sturt University and to our Supporting Partner CodeClub Australia, as well of course to all our wonderful volunteers and science engagement and event staff who’ve worked so hard to deliver the Festival.

I would also like to extend our warmest thanks to you; teachers and students. Your participation and enthusiasm is what brings all these amazing organisations and people together.

Join us as we celebrate the 15th anniversary of our incredible science education event, and help us share the wonders and curiosities of science with students.

Kim McKay AO Executive Director & CEO Australian Museum

WELCOME TO THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2016

CONTENTS

EXPO 2Workshops 4Shows 11Talks 16Exhibitions 18The team 20

The Australian Museum would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land we meet on, and pay respects to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We would like to pay our respects to Elders both past and present, and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.


SCIENCE EXPO MEET THE EXPERTS

Take a hands-on approach to science and meet the experts!

The AMSF Expo gives students an immersive space where they can ask all the hard questions, try out some science experiments and investigate the science they encounter every day. Australia’s top science institutions and organsations come together to provide students with interactive booths where they can explore STEM and get excited about the future of science. Highlights this year focus on new technologies with robots, drones and 3D printing.

PRESENTERS: Australian Museum, 3M Australia, Western Sydney University, University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney, Macquarie University, Code Club Australia, Lizard Island Reef Foundation, National Parks and Wildlife Service, 3D Printing Studios, Indigi Lab, Joint Academic Microbiology Seminars, Young Engineers, Merlin Entertainment and more.

EXPOEXPO


CHEMICAL OPPOSITESGet back to the basics! Find out more about the foundational chemistry concept of opposites: acids and bases; oil and water. What does it mean if a substance is basic? How acidic are some everyday items? How can chemistry help fix an oil spill? Get hands-on in this interactive workshop to discover just how important these basic scientific concepts are to our everyday lives.

PRESENTERS: 3M Australia

WILDLIFE DNA The Australian Museum has collectors, researchers... and crime fighters! Meet the superhero scientists who fight crime from the lab. Learn how to extract DNA from a strawberry with staff from the internationally acclaimed Australian Centre for Wildlife Genomics. Discover how they use similar methods of DNA extraction to help identify vulnerable and endangered animal species, and fight illegal wildlife smuggling!

PRESENTERS: Australian Museum Research Institute

WORKSHOPS

ATOMIC KIDSDiscover atoms and molecules – the tiny building blocks of everything around us. Explore the differences between well-used elements including gold, zinc, carbon, hydrogen and helium. Learn how to interpret the Periodic Table (the alphabet of the universe) and devise your own chemical formulas! Investigate what makes certain chemicals react (and explode!) and get hands-on with chemical reactions.

PRESENTER: ANSTO

ABORIGINAL BUSH FOOD & MEDICINEWhere could you get something to cure your headache before we had pharmacies? How do you find food without a supermarket? Learn how Indigenous Australians survived tens of thousands of years before modern conveniences were available, and see how traditional knowledge compares to Western science. Come along and learn how to let the land provide for you.

PRESENTER: Australian Museum

#GETKIDSCODINGGet up to speed with the latest in computer programming! Form a team and get cracking on your own computer game, animation or website. Code Club will introduce you to programming basics using drag-and-drop tools in this fun and interactive workshop where play and experimentation are encouraged, and problems can only be solved with collaboration. Don’t break the system: build it.

PRESENTER: Code Club Australia

SCIENCE OF NAMING SPECIES What’s in a name? Naming a new species is much harder than you may think! Find out how to identify a new species and learn how scientific illustrations are made (and why they are so important!). Discover a new world of sea creatures that are waiting to be described, named and have an identification key written for them by you!


WORKSHOPS


WORKSHOPS

SCIENCE OF THE PACIFICEmbark on a cultural tour to discover the science of the Pacific! Interact with collection items as Australian Museum staff reveal the secrets behind these objects, and the wonderful communities who made them. Find out more about the technologies of Pacific communities, their sustainable practices, and the everyday science encountered in their cultural practices.


SLIPPERY SQUID DISSECTIONSGot an ink-ling for discovery? Come and dissect a squid with the Australian Museum’s Malacology team! The Australian Museum Malacology collection is one of the largest of its kind in the world, showcasing molluscs from past and present, Australia and beyond. Find out more about the internal features these curious creatures use to survive in underwater darkness.

PRESENTER: Australian Museum Research Institute

IDX ROBOTICSBuild a bridge between STEM and digital technologies, science and culture, with LEGO robotics. Learn more about the Eora Nation as you program a robot to complete an obstacle course with significant landmarks and territories. Find out how robots are used in our everyday lives as you explore basic robotic concepts, use robots to problem solve and learn how robots are helping us understand more about Australia’s history!

PRESENTER: Indigenous Digital Excellence, National Centre of Indigenous Excellence

INTRO TO LEGO MINDSTORMS PROGRAMMING Get hands on, and program your future! Learn the basics of programming in this hands-on workshop and be inspired to get involved in STEM innovation. This robust, robotic workshop will look at the autonomous robot programming, and use LEGO Mindstorms EV3 technology to help you move robots with an iPad. Stop dreaming and start doing: the future is here and you can be part of it!

PRESENTER: First Australia

WORKSHOPS


WATER WORKSWater can move in mysterious ways! Discover how the wonderful water molecule works and all the tricks it can perform. How can it flow uphill? What does it likes and what it doesn’t like? Can you do a trick to make water disappear? Come along and find out what makes water so special, and the different ways it can move.

PRESENTER: Children’s Discovery

AUSTRALIA’S FIRST SCIENTISTSDid you know Indigenous Australians were physicists, biologists and chemists long before Galileo, Plato, Einstein, Darwin and the Curies were even born! Join our educators in the First Australians galleries and discover how Indigenous people have used deep knowledge and understanding of ecosystems, the seasons and Earth’s resources to live sustainably for tens of thousands of years.


CSI WORLD Discover what it means to be a crime fighting scientist! It’s time to suit up and help unlock the mysteries of a comic convention crime. Back by popular demand, learn the methods of real forensic scientists, from fingerprinting to basic DNA analysis. Retrieve and analyse evidence found at the crime scene to help police catch the criminal!


CLIMATE CHANGE AND AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS What does a change in temperature or rainfall mean for Aussie animals? Climate change is one of the key issues facing the world today. Get hands-on and investigate how changes to weather and climate are impacting Australian animals. Find ways you can reduce your carbon footprint to help our native critters.


WORKSHOPS

FROGS, FROGS, FROGSJump up, jump up and get down: it’s time to do some frog calls! Learn about the different ways frogs communicate, and how you can speak amphibian. Have a close look at some live frogs to learn about their life cycles, how they adapt to changing environments, the differences between frog species and why they are not toads.

PRESENTER: Frog and Tadpole Study Group

CABINET OF CURIOSITIESYour bus has arrived, but one like you’ve never caught before! All aboard Shark in a Bus! Explore this mobile museum of curiosities of a self-proclaimed shark lover; shark jaws of all shapes and sizes, treasures from the deep, and even a Great White! Learn about shark safety, marine conservation, stopping plastic pollution and why it’s so important to love and protect these great giants of the sea.

PRESENTER: Shark in a Bus

WORKSHOPS


WORKSHOPS

CIRCULAR MECHANICS Round and round we go! Why does water stay in a bucket when it is swung above your head? What is the difference between centrifugal and centripetal forces? How does an ice-skater control their speed while doing a pirouette? Come and learn the answers to these questions as you discover more about objects that undergo circular motion! Build a spinning top so you can complete the circuit and take the motion home.

PRESENTER: University of New South Wales

FACT OR FICTION 2.0 Can you tell fact from fiction? Test out your scientific deduction skills during this big screen experience where the internet collides with cutting edge science and research. Have your wits about you as you discover the truth about some of the most popular internet clips, and cast your vote on whether the information featured is scientific fact or fiction.

PRESENTER: ANSTO

VOLCANOES, ERUPTIONS AND MORE…Did you know that rocks move? The world as we know it has been developed by these movements through eruptions, earthquakes, meteors and tectonic plate shifts. Witness a scientific power that rocks in this interactive show and see if you can make a volcano explode!


LIVE ANIMAL INTERACTIONCatch up with some of Australia’s favourite animals! Meet live native reptiles, mammals and birds. Take a peek at some of the cutest creatures and hear stories of how they’ve adapted to a constantly changing environment. Learn the difference between native and introduced species and why biodiversity and conservation are so important to our world.

PRESENTER: Australian Wildlife Displays

SCIENCE MASH-UP It’s science madness at this medley of amazing demonstrations! Help two highly competitive presenters as they use exciting experiments to prove they can do the best science tricks in Australia! Entertaining, fast-paced and interactive, this show is all about the science of hilarious antics, and the magic of audience participation.

PRESENTER: Creative Science

SHOWS


...TICK, TICK, BOOMExplosions galore? More! More! More! Explore the science behind explosions and discover why chemical safety is so important. Learn some explosive basics like air pressure differentials, exothermic vs endothermic chemical reactions, the effect of surface area on reaction rates, combustion requirements and applications of controlled explosions. KABOOM!

PRESENTER: Fizzics Education

BIG SCIENCE, BIG FUN Join us for an action-packed science show! Watch out for bubbling liquid nitrogen, levitating beach balls, a giant gyroscope, coloured shadows, a student-sized hovercraft (or else you might end up on a nail chair!). Discover the mysteries of light, sound and combustion with gigantic bubbles, flying toilet paper, hair-raising electricity experiments and more!

PRESENTER: Fizzics Education

SHOWS

THE MYSTERY INVESTIGATORS SHOWCan you bend a spoon or find water using only a stick? The Mystery Investigators can! Join Richard Saunders from TV’s The One and his pal Ian Bryce as they unlock the secrets behind strange and mysterious stories in this interactive show. Help the Mystery Investigators use scientific methods to demonstrate and explain fantastic phenomena and bust scientific myths!

PRESENTER: Mystery Investigators

OUR LIVING CLIMATE Travel through the universe in this Planetarium adventure that will amaze and inspire. Discover the planets, stars, lunar cycles, seasons and constellations. Take a trip through the Solar System and to the very edge of our galaxy, before coming back down to Earth to find out what’s in the sky over Sydney tonight.

PRESENTER: Planetarium Entertainment

SHOWS


enLIGHTenWhat is light? How do we make it? How do we use it? Can we use it to hide the truth? In this show we will learn all about light with interactive and engaging demos..

PRESENTER: University of Technology Sydney

FIRE, WATER AND AIR SHOWWitness the melting, freezing and evaporating powers of energy! Using a variety of cutting edge fiery and explosive demonstrations, students will experience an exciting and engaging science stage show while learning about the world around them. The scientific content focuses on chemical and physical changes as well as the many different forms of energy to improve student engagement in all sciences.

PRESENTER: Street Science

SHOWS

DIGITAL SCIENCE LABExperience the motion of celestial objects in real time! Starlab is back with a new digital immersive environment that takes your galaxy exploration experience to a whole new level! Travel through time and space to the outer limits of our solar system. As a bonus, get to see Melbourne Planetarium and CAASTRO’s full dome presentation of ‘Capturing the Cosmos’, narrated by Geoffrey Rush.

PRESENTER: University of New South Wales

SOUND EFFECTSWhat was that noise!? Delve deep into the science of sound and discover how sounds are made. Find out how we hear and learn lots of ways to make funny sound effects using everyday materials. Get up! Stand up! Shout! Help create an interactive sound story that is as strange and spooky as it is NOISY!

PRESENTER: Science Safari

SHOWS


TALKS

SCIENTISTS UNLEASHED They’re out of the lab! Join scientists from the Australian Museum Research Institute (AMRI) for a snapshot of their research from around the globe in two 15-minute talks followed by a Q&A session.

PRESENTER: Australian Museum Research Institute

GREAT MOMENTS IN NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK Ask anything; he will know the answer! Australia’s favourite science guy Dr Karl Kruszelnicki will present his latest swag of super science stories. If you like science dished up with a big serving of humour, then don’t miss this opportunity to see Dr Karl live! Get the scoop on the latest research and discoveries, and ask Dr Karl those burning science questions you’ve been pondering for years!

PRESENTER: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

SUN, EARTH AND MOON DANCE The Sun, Earth and Moon are engaged in a beautiful dance that has been going on for billions of years! Come along on this fun, engaging and interactive journey into space. Discover how the movements of the Sun, Earth and Moon influence our lives; how they influence days, seasons and even the shape of the Moon in the sky! Then venture a bit further out to explore our Solar System, galaxy and universe.

PRESENTER: TechScience Australia

SPORT SCIENCE - LOVING THE OLYMPICSThe second most important event this month, the Olympic Games, has been witness to athlete development through research and innovation over time. Through this discussion of sport science, students will speak with athletes and scientists to learn about health and nutrition, exercise rehabilitation, strength and conditioning, exercise physiology and biomechanics in sport.

PRESENTERS: University of Technology Sydney

TALKS


EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBITION VISITS Wander through old favourites or discover the new exhibitions at Australia’s first museum. Exhibition visits can be scheduled for:

Wild Planet Earth is home, but it’s not just ours. Parading for you in Wild Planet are around 400 of the amazing animal species we share our planet with.

Long Gallery Explore quirky cabinets of curiosities full of magnificent objects in Australia’s first gallery.

Planet of Minerals Gain fascinating insights into the wonderful world of minerals.

Surviving Australia Get close to some intriguing Australian fauna.

Dinosaurs See, hear, touch and even smell the world of dinosaurs.

Birds and Insects Celebrates Australia’s abundant bird life, and peer into the wonderful world of insects and other invertebrates in this exhibition of specimens from our vast collections.

To see exhibition and learning resources designed for these exhibitions head to our website and explore our education resources.


THE TEAM

CATHERINE BEEHAG Manager

ASHLEIGH HARRINGTON Expo Coordinator and Educator

GEOFF GARDNER Operations and Programs Coordinator

ELLIE DOWNING Adviser

THE SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT AND EVENTS TEAM

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HOW TO BOOK

All schools need to pre-book for the AMSF.

– Visit amsciencefestival.net

– Log in, or create a new account

– Select which day to visit

– Choose your activities and session times

– Book multiple class groups (max. 30 students per group)

– Confirm booking

– Receive your school itinerary and links to online resources

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