Holiday science online: exclusive sessions

Bring the museum to your community group or library via exclusively booked Zoom sessions during school holidays.

A female museum educator is sitting in front of a laptop running a virtual program. The laptop is projected onto a screen in front of her.
Digital Coordinator, Education, Bridget Hanna introducing Kate Barnard's interview with NASA astrophysicist Jessie Christiansen during an MV Education Virtual Classroom streamed from Scienceworks

Available:

School holidays

Sessions:

Session times by negotiation

Duration:

30–40 minutes

Suitable for:

Ages 4–10

Cost:

$300 for up to 100 participants

Program description

Book the museum to host an exclusive science themed Zoom presentation for children in your library or community group next school holidays. Participants can join as individuals (up to 100 participants on their own devices) or as a group in your choice of venue with a large screen. Children will be able to interact with museum staff with their cameras and microphones on, as well as through chat. Question and answer time is included at the end of each session.

Dates and time by negotiation with your choice of subject:

  • Dinosaurs and fossils
    • Learn about dinosaurs and fossils, and find out some of the ways palaeontologists know what they know about the ancient world of dinosaurs!
    • Ages 4-8yrs
  • Secrets of the sky
    • Come on an adventure through the night sky and beyond! We’ll explore constellations, stars, visible planets and more.
    • Ages 7-10yrs
  • What is a bug?
    • How are bugs different to other animals? Become an entomologist and learn to identify different groups of bugs. Find out some of the amazing things bugs can do!
    • Ages 4-8yrs
  • Deep sea discovery
    • Learn about ocean animals as we journey from the beaches of Victoria into the deep, dark ocean world of the Abyssal Zone. How different do animals look who live in the deepest parts of the ocean?
    • Ages 4-8yrs

What do you need to participate?
Our online programs at Museums Victoria are run via Zoom. It’s free and easy to use.

Group setting
If you plan to have participants joining in a group setting, ideally you will need to have access to a large TV, smart TV, or data projector that can be connected to a device with the internet so that you can join via Zoom. A laptop or iPad screen will be too small to view the presentation as a group. We will send a link to the person making the booking which you simply click to then join the session.

Individual setting
We will send out a link to join the program to the person making the booking which they can then send onto up to 100 participants. Children and families can join from home on any computer or device with internet access.

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