What's with the Weather?
- What
- Museum Staff-led
- When
- Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
- Duration
- 30 minutes in the Lightning Theatre
Curriculum links & Accessibility - 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
Discover how only three ingredients create all weather! Learn how water, air, and heat create lightning, rainbows, clouds, and rain in this interactive 30-minute show in the Lightning Theatre.
What's With the Weather is a gentle way to introduce young minds to the science behind some wild weather. Students in prep to year 2 will feel safe as our engaging presenters guide them through an immersive and sensory learning experience.
Students will be blown away with hair-raising weather demonstrations and the show will finish with a lightning demonstration using a two-million-volt Tesla coil and a discussion of safety in lightning storms.
Victorian Curriculum links
Victoria Early Years Learning and Development Framework (VELDYF)
Learning: Children are confident and involved learners
- Develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity
- Develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating
- Transfer and adapt what they have learnt from one context to another
- Resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials
Victorian Curriculum Links
Science
- People use science in their daily lives (VCSSU041)
- Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape; daily and seasonal changes affect everyday life (VCSSU046)
- Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions (VCSIS051)