Young boy playing with suction tube exhibit in the Ground Up exhibition at Scienceworks

Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together

What
Self-directed
When
Terms 1 to 4, Tuesday to Friday
Year level
Years K to F
Maximum student numbers
Maximum 33 students
Cost
$9 per student + education service fee
Booking information
Bookings 13 11 02
School visit information

Ground Up: Building Big Ideas, Together is an exhibition designed to foster STEM skills in Kindergarten and Foundation students.

Future aeronautical engineers will design and construct flying contraptions; little sparks will make patterns and pictures with lights on a giant wall of colourful light up switches; problem solvers will experiment and construct colourful 3-dimensional puzzles and for experimenters there is a giant, colourful carwash to be engineered into action.

Victorian Curriculum links

Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework

Learning: children are confident and involved learners 

  • Hypothesising, predicting, experimenting and testing through play 
  • Reflective thinking – why do things happen and what can I learn from this? 

Communicate mathematical ideas and concepts 

  • Communication: children are effective communicators 
  • Use vocabulary to describe size, length, volume, capacity and names of numbers 
  • Explain mathematical ideas 
  • Sort, categorise, order, compare collections and attributes of objects and materials 

Victorian curriculum – foundation level

Science

  • The shape of objects will affect how they move (VCSSU035) 
  • Light and sound are produced by a range of sources and can be sensed (VCSSU049) 
  • Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events (VCSIS050)  
  • Actively observe, explore and manipulate (VCSIS037) 

Mathematics

  • sort, name and create familiar shapes; recognise and describe familiar shapes within objects in the environment, giving reasons (VC2MFSP01) 
  • describe the position and location of themselves and objects in relation to other people and objects within a familiar space (VC2MFSP02) 
  • follow a short sequence of instructions; recognise, copy, continue and create repeating patterns represented in different ways (VC2MFA01) 

Design and technologies

  • Explore how technologies use forces to create movement in designed solutions (VCDSTC014) 

Gallery

Children interacting with the Light Wall exhibit in the Ground Up exhibition Child playing with blue cogs in the Ground Up exhibition Child interacting with mirrors display in the Ground Up exhibition Child playing with Light Table blocks in the Ground Up exhibition Boy playing with clear building blocks in the Ground Up exhibition Family groups in an exhibition space

Related links

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