Solar System Adventures: Where’s the Water?

What: Museum Staff-led
When: Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
Duration: 45 minutes in the Planetarium
Year level: Years 4 to 8
Minmum student numbers: Minimum 15 students
Maximum student numbers: Maximum 150 students
Cost: $9 per student + education service fee
Booking information: Bookings 13 11 02
School visit information

During this presenter-led, live show in the Planetarium students will be taken on a guided tour of our solar system in the search for the most precious resource – water! 

Students will experience

Launching off the Earth and see the ways our oceans and atmosphere protect life on Earth
Visiting the giant ice mountains on Pluto
Sailing through jets of salty water erupting from Saturn’s tiny moon Enceladus
Plunging into dark shadowy craters on scorching hot Mercury

Students will learn

About the crucial role that water plays for life here on Earth
That water can be found in solid, liquid and gaseous forms
About the planets, moons and dwarf planets in the solar system, and what their environments are like
About some of the space missions that have allowed humanity to learn about these distant worlds

Victorian Curriculum links

Science

Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the Sun) (VCSSU078)
Earth’s surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity (VCSSU062)
Solids, liquids and gases behave in different ways and have observable properties that help to classify them (VCSSU076)
Changes to materials can be reversible, including melting, freezing, evaporating, or irreversible, including burning and rusting (VCSSU077)
Water is an important resource that cycles through the environment (VCSSU101)