Bringing Curiosity into Classrooms
School of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment
9 Rainforest Walk
Monash University
Clayton, VIC 3800
03 9905 3170
Sir David Attenborough’s visit to the
science centre in 2012. He is the patron
of PrimeSCI!
History
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primesci@monash.edu
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Thursday, 11 June 2015
Previously operating as the Monash Science Centre
Step Out of the Shadows!
2015 is the International Year of Light
Victoria. 2015 has been
declared by the United
Nations as the International
Year of Light and PrimeSCI!
is celebrating it with one of
its most popular sessions ‘Light and Colour’.
Dirt, Dinos, and DNA!
Exciting new lessons for
Terms 3 and 4
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Students experience the
principles and behaviour of
light through an actionpacked series of clever
activities and awesome
equipment.
“It may be that you are not yourself
luminous, but that you are a
conductor of light. Some people
without possessing genius have a
remarkable power of stimulating
it.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Author of Sherlock Holmes
Students learn how to catch light,
bounce light, slow it down, split it up,
focus it, combine it, and as if that
weren’t enough, they also learn how to
use light to make things reappear.
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The wonder continues when
students see for themselves
how the mixing of light is very
different from mixing paint.
This highly popular session is
suitable for Preps to Year 2s,
and Year 5 students.
Celebrate the 2015
International Year of Light
with this powerful session as a
classroom incursion or a
Family Science Night.
PrimeSCI! gets Woolly
Professional Development Workshops
‘An excellent way to promote Science teaching at school....
The presenter was outstanding and strongly grounded in the classroom setting’
Presbyterian Ladies’ College
Workshops 2015
Biological Sciences
-The Secret Life of Plants
Chemical Sciences
-States of Matter
-Change
Shhh....
Mathematical Secrets of the
Solar System
Earth and Space Sciences
-Earth’s Changing Surface
-Day/Night and Seasons
-Weather
Highlights from Education Week
2015
In the Community
‘The PD was amazing.
Our teachers are still talking about it!’
North Fitzroy Primary School
Physical Sciences
-Electricity and Circuits
-Light and Colour
A high-impact and fun-filled series of workshops, backed by years
of experience in the classroom delivery of science instruction, is
now available for the most important resource of your school - your
teachers.
Let us help your teachers remove the anxiety from the science
components of the National Curriculum, and show how science can
be powerfully delivered to young minds with confidence.
Get your team of teachers curious with PrimeSCI!
Family Science Nights Need Big Ideas? We have
them!
Entertainment
Prices start at $600. Contact the PrimeSCI! office at
primesci@monash.edu for more details.
Visit PrimeSCI!’s upcoming
‘Wildlife of Gondwana’
exhibition at the National
Wool Museum in Geelong.
Open from:
July 27, 2015 to July 24, 2016
Prices for 2015
Clayton. The upcoming
financial year 2015-2016 will
see slight increases in charges
for all school bookings.
From 1st July 2015, costs
will be:
$205 per session (plus GST)
+ $20 booking fee
So, get in quick and book
your sessions before July 1!!
www.primesci.monash.edu.au
Thursday, 11 June 2015
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Dinos, Dirt, and DNA!
Exciting New Science Lessons for Terms 3 and 4
It’s a packed hour of rock cycles,
erosion and weathering,
investigating different types of
soil, and meeting rocks that have
gone through the belly of
volcanoes!
There is much buzz at the
PrimeSCI! office with the release
of three new exciting sessions
this season.
Book early to avoid the Term 3
and 4 stampede.
Dinosaur Detectives
Get in on the excitement of
Jurassic World and learn how
world renowned palaeontologist
Emeritus Professor Patricia
Vickers-Rich and other
paleontologists use clues like
bones and claws to solve
different dinosaur mysteries.
Digging Deeper is compatible
with Primary Connections’
‘Beneath Our Feet’ unit.
Digging Deeper
Digging Deeper is an
unforgettable encounter with our
Earth. The classroom turns into a
rock gallery with a specially
selected collection from Monash
University’s School of Earth,
Atmosphere, and Environment.
Students transform into ‘Dino
Detectives’ as they learn about
dinosaur bodies, make casts of
dinosaur fossils and/or excavate
Fans of MineCraft will be
mini sandpits.
excited to see obsidian, and
AusVels Foundation to Level 2 Content junior paleontologists will be
Descriptions: Living things have basic
awed by fossils that are older
needs; have a variety of features; and
grow and change (ACSSU002/017/030) than dinosaurs in the rock
gallery.
AusVELS Level 4 Content
Descriptions: Earth’s surface changes
over time as a result of natural processes
and human activity (ACSSU075)
Demystifying DNA
DNA contains crucial
information that ensures our
survival. It also explains how we
look and behave.
For more details, visit:
AusVELS Levels 5 and 6 Science as a
Human Endeavour, and Science
Inquiry Skills
What is better than explosions,
self-inflating balloons, and
dancing fluids?
‘..has been phenomenal’
Bundoora Primary School
Did you know?
In 1961, Dave Warren (1925-2010) created the
black box flight recorder - the device that records
voices from the cockpit, as well as flight data. The
durable boxes were designed to replay the final
moments before a plane crash, revealing what went
wrong. Today, every commercial plane flies with
this Australian invention.
He had also taught at the Geelong Grammar
School between 1944 to 1946.
David Warren with his invention
Shhh...
Mathematical
Secrets of the Solar
System
Victoria. A number of intergalactic
secrets had been spilled in classrooms
in the recent Education Week.
It’s doing all of these together with
family and friends!
‘The students are parents were totally
enthralled.’
Highlights this winter season include
Frozen Science, Brains, Lego Robotics,
Ravioli, Demystifying DNA, The
Unsinkable Boat Challenge, and BRAINS!
But what is it? What does it look www.primesci.monash.edu.au
Book early to avoid disappointment
like? Is DNA from different
living things the same? And how
can we extract it?
In the Community
Entertainment
‘Family Science Nights’ is a growing
trend in schools to provide an
opportunity for children and their
families to learn and play together.
When schools organise programmes
like this, they foster a community of
curiosity and prepare young minds for
the learning of the science.
Holiday Science Workshops
at Swinburne University are now open for
booking.
Students used decimal numbers to
break away from Earth’s gravitational
force, ordered time to compare days
and nights on other planets in our Solar
System, and used fractions to make a
scale model of the Solar System. And
then there were explosions!
Family Science Night 2015
Spooky Science
Awesome Atmosphere
Sound Circus
The Human Body Gallery
Chat with us for more possibilities!
Those who took part in our Education
Week campaign would agree that
numbers help us understand the
wonders of our mysterious Universe.
Email primesci@monash.edu if you would like
to be added to our mailing list.
Science Shaping Society
Clayton. Associate Professor Hans Netter from
the Molecular Virology Research Group at
Monash University entertained and awed the
audience as he shared tales from parasites and
precursors of life on May 27 as part of
PrimeSCI!’s ongoing Science Shaping Society
public lecture series.
Join our mailing list to keep abreast of the
action at the forefront of science.
Associate Professor Hans Netter