Lights, Energy, Action
- What
- Museum Staff-led
- When
- Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
- Duration
- 40 minutes in the Lightning Theatre
- Year level
- Years 3 to 6
- Minmum student numbers
- Minimum 15 students
- Maximum student numbers
- Maximum 118 students
- Cost
- $9 per student + education service fee
- Booking information
- Bookings 13 11 02
Explore all things ENERGY through three rounds of electrifying demonstrations.
This show investigates different kinds of energy, including light, sound, electricity, and how they intertwine. We’ll make lightning dance with our singing Tesla coils, and show how storing energy can produce explosive results.
Complete all three game show rounds, and you might even get to see the giant Tesla Coil, capable of generating more than two million volts of electricity!
Victorian Curriculum links
Science
- Heat can be produced in many ways and can move from one object to another; a change in the temperature of an object is related to the gain or loss of heat by the object (VCSSU063)
- Light from a source forms shadows and can be absorbed, reflected and refracted (VCSSU080)
- Energy from a variety of sources can be used to generate electricity; electric circuits enable this energy to be transferred to another place and then to be transformed into another form of energy (VCSSU081)
- Energy appears in different forms including movement (kinetic energy), heat, light, chemical energy and potential energy; devices can change energy from one form to another (VCSSU104)
Related links
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