Sportsworks: Secondary

Students engage with interactive displays that explore biomechanics, human physiology, and fitness science, all directly linked to health, physical education, and biology curriculum areas.

Students will experience

• Explore advanced biomechanics through exhibits that illustrate the forces and motions involved in human movement and athletic performance.
• Engage with interactive displays to understand the role of muscles, bones, and joints in movement, including the impact of different sports and injuries to the human body.
• Investigate the cardiovascular and respiratory systems by participating in activities that simulate how exercise affects heart and lung functions.
• Measure their physical performance through challenges such as racing against Cathy Freeman or testing their reaction times and balance.
• Examine the science behind sports technology by learning about innovations in equipment design and materials that optimize athletic performance.
• Analyse fitness data to better understand how various factors contribute to physical health and athletic success.
• Exploring the exhibition at their own pace, in small groups with their supervisors.

Other key information

• School groups can access the Sportsworks exhibition if they have booked a time slot.
• Students need to stay in small groups with their supervisors while in our exhibitions.

Related links

• Sportsworks Exhibition
• Sportsworks trail and Sportspass (PDF 730)|  825.55 KB .pdf file
• Sport safety – Classroom activities (PDF 434KB)|  433.09 KB .pdf file
• Sporty bodies part A – Classroom activities (PDF 928KB)|  927.5 KB .pdf file
• Sporty bodies part B – Classroom activities (PDF 600KB)|  599.14 KB .pdf file
• Sport technology – Classroom activities (PDF 1MB)|  1017.65 KB .pdf file
• Sport design – Classroom activities (PDF 253KB)|  252.05 KB .pdf file
• Forces and physics in sport – Classroom activities (PDF 507KB)|  506.51 KB .pdf file
• Good sports – Classroom activities (PDF 814KB)|  813.67 KB .pdf file