Illuminate: How science comes to light – For schools

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This playful interactive exhibition has a vibrant festival theme that engages the senses and lets students discover through doing.

What is light, what can we do with it and how do we see? 

Students will explore these questions and more drawn by colour, sound and activity. There are six festival zones, each exploring a different aspect of sight and light, as well as a rest zone for students to regroup and relax.

They will be encouraged to bend light, manipulate colour, dance with shadows and transform reflections. With an array of open-ended interactives, students will be able to magnify, mix, animate, draw, design and compose – all with light!

Enlighten your students with this fun and educational exhibition.

Teacher Resources

Why can't we see in the dark?

Students learn how to make a pinhole camera and/or a pinhole theatre and use this simple device to understand what happens when light enters our eyes.

What's cooking Sun?

Students are challenged to make a solar oven to cook a cheese toastie using basic materials found around the house or school.

Light up my world

Students design projections on buildings (represented by boxes), replicating projection systems used at festivals such as White Night or West Projection Festival.

Changing shadows and shadow play

Students play with shadows and learn about the type of shadows cast by opaque, translucent and transparent objects.

Explore the festival zones

Use this map to guide you through the Illuminate exhibition.

Explore the festival zones

 

Curriculum Links

  • Science as a human endeavour (F-2)
  • Chemical Sciences (F-4)
  • Physical sciences (F-6)
  • Design and Technologies (F-6)
  • Capabilities: Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social (F-6)

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