What's with the Weather?

What

Museum Staff-led

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday

Duration

30 minutes in the Lightning Theatre

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Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund

Year level

Years F to 2

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

School visit information

In this science show for early primary school students, students will get to see mini weather created before their eyes, including a rainbow, a cloud in a bottle and sparks of lightning. This curriculum-aligned program explores the science of weather.

Students will experience

• The science of how different weather is created, including clouds, rain, rainbows and lightning
• Hair raising experiments with static electricity
• The opportunity to volunteer to help with live demonstrations
• Spectacular two-million-volt lightning volts, and an exploration of how to stay safe in storms

Students will learn

• How water, air and heat create the different types of weather we experience
• How spectacular phenomena like rainbows and lightning bolts are formed
• How to make and test predictions using science skills

Other key information

• Students with pacemakers or cochlear implants can attend this program safely, however they may be asked not to volunteer for certain demonstrations.

Victorian Curriculum links

Science: Foundation to Level 2

Earth and space sciences

• daily and seasonal changes in the weather and the environment can be observed and affect decisions made in everyday life
  VC2S2U07

Science as a human endeavour

• scientific knowledge is based on observations of the natural world using the senses, and scientific tools and instruments
  VC2S2H01
• science is used by people in their daily lives, including asking questions and using patterns from observations of the world around them to make scientific predictions
  VC2S2H02