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Learn why the Earth’s climate is changing, and what we can do to help.
Museums Victoria is offering a range of programs as part of the Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series, a series of high-quality extension activities across all areas of the curriculum funded by the Department of Education.
Museums Victoria and the Department of Education have partnered to provide high-ability students with an opportunity to participate in a range of innovative Museum programs at Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks and Immigration Museum.
These programs are FREE for all Government Schools. Students have the opportunity to participate in these programs from Term 3, 2020, until Term 4, 2022.
Over the two-and-a-half years of the series, Museums Victoria will be offering the following programs:
Students participate in a Learning Lab program, either "Rockumentary" or "Climate Change and Victoria’s Future", this is followed by an opportunity to meet a Museum Scientist. This program is delivered in school hours.
Learn why the Earth’s climate is changing, and what we can do to help.
Students become mini-geologist and filmmakers as they learn about rocks and create short documentaries to communicate their findings.
Learn how the Earth’s climate is changing and what this means for Victoria’s future.
Learn about the many ways that rocks shape and continually change our world!
Students participate in a creative workshop where they work with published authors and artists, exploring the many stories featured in the Immigration Museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions. This program is delivered in school hours.
Extend your high ability students through writing workshops at the Immigration Museum.
Secondary students explore the complexities of identity and belonging through artist-led creative learning workshops
Students participate in a two day "Moonbase Camp" or "STEM Camp". Students will partake in onsite activities at Scienceworks over two consecutive days in the school holidays. This program is delivered out of school hours.
A two-day workshop for a select number of students to visit the Planetarium, hear from an astronomer and make a 3D design of a Moonbase for human habitation.
The process for registering students will differ for activities that occur during and out of school hours:
In 2020, places will be filled on a 'first-in, first-served' basis. In 2021 and 2022, schools and students who have not participated in the activity will be given priority access.
Interested families and caregivers of high-ability students should talk to their schools about which activities are the best fit for them.