What

Planetarium

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday

Duration

45 minutes in the Planetarium

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Curriculum links & Accessibility

Year level

Years 5 to 10

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

Follow a First Peoples family as they explore the land around Lake Tyrell, telling stories in the stars, connected to land and knowledge. This Planetarium program ties into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures cross-curriculum priority, as well as the science and history curriculums.

It’s an opportunity for students to explore more local constellations in the night sky, and to develop a deeper understanding of Australian First Nations culture.

Students will experience

• A Planetarium film with fulldome projection and reclining seats
• Discovering astronomical knowledge of the Boorong people of northwest Victoria and connecting constellations and stars to behaviour of animals on the ground
• Seeing the constellations of the night sky as they appear in the Southern Hemisphere
• A First Peoples family exploring the land around Lake Tyrell and the connection to the night sky, while passing on knowledge from one generation to the next generation
• A 10-minute live guided tour of the night sky

Students will learn

• For hundreds of thousands of years, First Peoples Australians have lived under the southern night sky, and have identified properties of the stars
• The stories of the stars told by First Nations people are connected to culture
• The night sky teaches knowledge of stars and the planets, the land, the activities of animals and plants throughout the year, the right way to do things, healing and First Nations law

Victorian Curriculum links

Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

Country and Place

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of Australia maintain a deep connection to, and responsibility for, Country and Place and have holistic values and belief systems that are connected to the land, sea, sky and waterways.
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Culture

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ ways of life reflect unique ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing.
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History: Levels 3 and 4

Community, remembrance and celebrations

• the significance of Country and Place to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples who are connected to their area
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Science: Levels 5 and 6

Science as a human endeavour

• scientific knowledge changes over time, often resulting from collaboration or by building on the work of others, and leads to advances in science
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History: Levels 7 and 8

• Investigation: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' knowledge and understandings (Deep Time to the modern era)
• the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ knowledge and understanding of the creation of Country and Place and people in oral accounts, stories and artworks
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• the features and structures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and their continuity and change over time, such as connection to Country and Place, spirituality and kinship systems
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Science: Levels 7 and 8

Science as a human endeavour

• multidisciplinary endeavours to advance scientific knowledge make use of people’s different perspectives and worldviews
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