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Overnights at Indaba Bush Camp
Overnights at Indaba Bush Camp

Monarto Safari Park
Horticulture and conservation at Monarto Safari Park

Monarto Safari ParkProgram
Zoo Explorer
Zoo Explorer

Monarto Safari ParkProgram
Zoo Crew
Zoo Crew

Monarto Safari ParkProgram
Animal Tales
Animal Tales

Adelaide ZooProgram
Teachers Professional Learning Package 2020
Teachers Professional Learning Package 2020

Adelaide Festival Centre’s centrED presents a unique year-long professional learning program for teachers with the opportunity to experience a select range of live performance and workshops. Registrations close on Friday 13 March (T1, Wk7)

Adelaide Festival CentrePerformance
Mobile Technologies and Nature

Discover how to use tablets and smartphones for nature-based teaching and gain knowledge that can be directly taken back to a school setting.

This STEM-focused workshop will develop skills in:

•Photography, including light and composition
•The use of external lens attachments to take beautiful up-close photos
•Editing photos using free mobile Apps
•Using digital microscopes to observe flowers and seeds up close

For all educators from Pre-school to secondary years

Botanic Gardens of South Australia
Tom Kruse the Outback Mailman
Tom Kruse the Outback Mailman

Students will step into the shoes of Australian legend Tom Kruse who delivered the mail and supplies to people along the rough Birdsville Track in outback Australia from 1936 to 1963, driving his faithful Leyland Badger Truck.

National Motor MuseumSpecial Program
A day in the life of a child in the 19th Century
A day in the life of a child in the 19th Century

In this joint program between the Migration Museum and Ayers House, students will explore daily life for children in the 19th Century.

Migration MuseumSpecial Program
Overview: First Contacts
Overview: First Contacts

1. What was life like for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples before the arrival of the Europeans?
2. Why did the Europeans settle in Australia?
3. What was the nature and consequence of contact between Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples and early traders, explorers and settlers?

Migration MuseumProgram
Overview: Contemporary migration to South Australia post 1945
Overview: Contemporary migration to South Australia post 1945

Who is migrating to South Australia right now? Where are migrants coming from, and why? How is migration experienced? How does government policy shape migration journeys?
These simple questions have very complex answers.

Migration MuseumProgram
Colonial Footprints on Kaurna Land
Colonial Footprints on Kaurna Land

Why did the SA government company decide to site Adelaide where it currently is? What tools and instruments were used to plan out the site?

What would you look for? Water supply, ease of accessibility, fertility of land, ease of travel!

Migration MuseumProgram
Migration Museum
The Making of Democracy – joint program with the Centre of Democracy

This cross- site education program will develop student’s understanding the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal people, the nature of the colonisation model used in South Australia and the development of democracy in the 1800s culminating in an understanding of women’s suffrage in the late 1800s.

Migration MuseumSpecial Program
Unpacking Histories
Unpacking Histories

An investigative multimedia assisted workshop that aims to show how the stories of individual lives fit into the local, national and global mosaic of history. Working like historians and curators, students put on white-gloves and unpack, investigate, research and record the lives of several South Australians and their immigration stories.

Migration MuseumSpecial Program
Teachers' Big Days Out
Teachers’ Big Days Out

South Australia’s major cultural institutions, along North Terrace and beyond are preparing for an exciting three day program for the second Teachers’ Big Days Out in 2020. Loaded with professional learning opportunities for educators across multiple learning areas, this event will provide you with strategies of how to incorporate a variety of cultural institutions and their collections into your teaching programs!

Festival
Girl Asleep Digital Education Package
Girl Asleep Digital Education Package

Windmill TheatreDigital/eLearning
Art and Science Resource & Tours
Art and Science Resource & Tours

Art Gallery of South AustraliaProgram
Drawing in the Gallery (Years 5-12)
Drawing in the Gallery (Years 5-12)

Art Gallery of South AustraliaSpecial Program
Kickstart 2018
Kickstart 2018

Workshop
Developing a Nation
Developing a Nation

Art Gallery of South AustraliaProgram
Australian History  - Colonial Australia
Australian History – Colonial Australia

Art Gallery of South AustraliaProgram
Australian History - Movement of People
Australian History – Movement of People

Art Gallery of South AustraliaSpecial Program
Student Debate - Non-Sitting Day
Student Debate – Non-Sitting Day

Parliament HouseSpecial Program
Question Time - Sitting Day
Question Time – Sitting Day

Parliament HouseSpecial Program
Parliament Tour - Sitting Day
Parliament Tour – Sitting Day

Parliament HouseSpecial Program
Parliament Tour - Non-Sitting Day
Parliament Tour – Non-Sitting Day

Parliament HouseSpecial Program
Secondary Trails
Secondary Trails

Botanic Gardens of South AustraliaInquiry trail
Primary Years Trails
Primary Years Trails

Botanic Gardens of South AustraliaInquiry trail
Early Years Trails
Early Years Trails

Botanic Gardens of South AustraliaInquiry trail
Plant and Seed Conservation
Plant and Seed Conservation

Botanic Gardens of South AustraliaInquiry trail
Indigenous Culture for Kids

Botanic Gardens of South AustraliaSpecial Program
Mobile Photography Workshops
Mobile Photography Workshops

Botanic Gardens of South AustraliaSpecial Program
If walls could speak: 5 stories from the Destitute Asylum eBook
If walls could speak: 5 stories from the Destitute Asylum eBook

If walls could speak is a multi-modal resource which features primary sources and is designed as an inquiry into the lives of 5 people who relied upon government welfare and were affected by government legislation from 1830s to 1918.

Migration MuseumDigital/eLearning
Lego© Works Car Factory
Lego© Works Car Factory

The Legoworks Car Factory is a practical, fun program for junior primary students comparing the differences between old and new cars. They make a LEGO vehicle individually and as a team, exploring how car assembly lines work. Each student receives a special badge on completion of the activity.

National Motor MuseumSpecial Program
Motor Works
Motor Works

Motor Works is an interactive and practical educational program that gives the opportunity for students to build their own scale Model-T Ford. Students take on the roles of the factory workers on the production assembly line and with appropriate teamwork the Model T Ford models start to roll of the end of the production line. Each student will take home their own scale model car.

National Motor MuseumSpecial Program
The Hawker Vans – ‘Developing historical thinking’
The Hawker Vans – ‘Developing historical thinking’

This education program designed for R-7 primary students is based around the ‘Hawker Vans’ exhibition at the National Motor Museum. Students explore the role of the Hawker in early Australia after Federation, and why hawking was so important to consumers. They also learn about the impact of motor vehicle which enabled hawkers who previously travelled by foot, horse or camel, to cover much larger distances with heavier loads. Students will look at historical objects sold by the hawkers and carry out a simulated hawking journey where they will spruik their wares in a mini scale model hawker van.

National Motor MuseumSpecial Program
Learning to Look - Introduction to the Art Gallery of South Australia
Learning to Look – Introduction to the Art Gallery of South Australia

Art Gallery of South AustraliaWorkshop
Zoosnooze: overnight secondary program
Zoosnooze: overnight secondary program

Adelaide ZooSpecial Program
Creature Comforts
Creature Comforts

Adelaide ZooProgram
Lifecycles Year 1-4
Lifecycles Year 1-4

Adelaide ZooProgram
Creatures' Features: Years 4-7
Creatures’ Features: Years 4-7

Adelaide ZooProgram
Animal Homes
Animal Homes

Adelaide ZooProgram
Unpacking Histories
Unpacking Histories

Migration MuseumWorkshop
Changing Worlds: Childrens' Experiences Of Colonisation
Changing Worlds: Childrens’ Experiences Of Colonisation

Migration MuseumWorkshop
Being a child in the nineteenth century
Being a child in the nineteenth century

Migration MuseumWorkshop
The role of juries eBook
The role of juries eBook

Law CourtsDigital/eLearning
Adaptation Adventure eBook
Adaptation Adventure eBook

This eBook takes students on a trail around the zoo to observe animal behaviour and take note of adaptations and learn about how the animals are cared for. They also record their observations on their iPads.

Adelaide ZooDigital/eLearning
Ediacaran Fossils of the Flinders Ranges
Ediacaran Fossils of the Flinders Ranges

The Ediacaran Fossils of the Flinders Ranges eBook has been created to support teachers when addressing the concepts of geological time and evolution with their students. It provides background information on South Australian Ediacaran fossil discoveries and their scientific importance.

South Australian MuseumDigital/eLearning
The Spice Trail eBook
The Spice Trail eBook

This eBook guides students through six stations on their visit Adelaide Botanic Garden to investigate great journeys of exploration and learn about the history of spices, their uses and their impact on societies.

Online ResourcesDigital/eLearning
Bound for South Australia Digital iPad Inquiry
Bound for South Australia Digital iPad Inquiry

Students use iPads to engage with the Bound for South Australia exhibition. This digital inquiry explores the concept of migration and examines the conditions people experienced voyaging to Australia between 1836 and the 1950s.

South Australian Maritime MuseumDigital/eLearning
Exploration Digital iPad Inquiry
Exploration Digital iPad Inquiry

Students use iPads to engage with the First Voyages, Exploring the Southern Coast exhibition as they learn about the Europeans that charted the South Australian coast in the early 19th century, their discoveries and how these contributed to the way Australians live today.

South Australian Maritime MuseumDigital/eLearning
Fossils Provide Evidence of Evolution -  An online resource
Fossils Provide Evidence of Evolution – An online resource

This web based digital resource for students in Years 5-6 uses an inquiry based approach and aligns with the AC: Science and Geography. Students investigate how fossils discovered in South Australia provide evidence of the ways that animals have evolved, adapted and changed to survive in their environment.

Online ResourcesDigital/eLearning
Aboriginal Bark Paintings of Arnhem Land - eBook
Aboriginal Bark Paintings of Arnhem Land – eBook

This eBook looks at Aboriginal bark paintings of Arnhem Land. Students learn about the history of Aboriginal bark paintings, the techniques used and stories behind them.

Online ResourcesDigital/eLearning
Toys and Games of Traditional Aboriginal Cultures
Toys and Games of Traditional Aboriginal Cultures

This program addresses historical skills and understandings from the early years Australian Curriculum: History. Children participate in a ‘hands on’ session analysing traditional Aboriginal toys and games.

South Australian MuseumProgram
Scientific Classification
Scientific Classification

This program addresses the year 7 Australian Curriculum: Science, biological strand. It covers the concepts of diversity and evolution.

South Australian MuseumProgram
Aboriginal Traditional Technologies
Aboriginal Traditional Technologies

Students’ learning is focused on traditional Aboriginal life prior to European contact. Students investigate how Aboriginal people developed technologies to solve problems encountered by everyday life. Australian Curriculum: History years 2/3.

South Australian MuseumProgram
South Australian Suffragettes web-based inquiry
South Australian Suffragettes web-based inquiry

This is a web-based resource aligned with Years 5, 6 and 9 Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship and History. The South Australian Suffragettes website also provides opportunities for links to the Cross-curriculum priority Sustainability, particularly with regard to the social sustainability of a democracy.

Online ResourcesDigital/eLearning
Bringing Languages to Life
Bringing Languages to Life

This Art Gallery languages program links to the SACE and Australian Curriculum: Languages, Visual Arts and Design. Language learning outside the classroom is supported as students interact with each other and the teacher in French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.

Art Gallery of South Australia
Sewage Sleuths
Sewage Sleuths

This web-based program engages students with wastewater treatment processes and challenges them to use that knowledge to solve problems in a fictional wastewater plant. Requires interpretation of graphs.

Online ResourcesDigital/eLearning
Zoosnooze Community Groups - Friday Night
Zoosnooze Community Groups – Friday Night

An Adelaide Zoo Zoosnooze includes facilitated education sessions and guided night walks, highlighting important animal and habitat conservation issues.

Adelaide ZooProgram
Kindy Zoo: Australian Animals
Kindy Zoo: Australian Animals

A 30 minute information session with an education officer about Australian Animals including a close up with a live zoo animal.

Adelaide ZooProgram
The Curator's Table
The Curator’s Table

This is a web-based and iPad compatible resource aligned with Years 6 and 9 Australian Curriculum (AC): History. This website provides primary sources that can be used by teachers to engage students in inquiry based learning related to the treatment of German people in South Australia at the time of World War I.

Online ResourcesDigital/eLearning
Australia's Muslim Cameleers Website
Australia’s Muslim Cameleers Website

This program is linked to the Australian Curriculum: History and can support inquiry-based learning for students in Years 4 and 5 and SACE 1 History. It can support teachers’ professional knowledge around these histories.

Digital/eLearning
Immigration: An Overview
Immigration: An Overview

This program looks at key events in South Australian immigration history from 1836 to the present day. It emphasises the concept of cause and effect. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives are highlighted.

Migration MuseumProgram
Zoosnooze overnight program: Reception to Year 7
Zoosnooze overnight program: Reception to Year 7

An Adelaide Zoo Zoosnooze includes facilitated education sessions and guided night walks, highlighting important animal and habitat conservation issues.

Adelaide ZooProgram
Tourism at Zoos SA
Tourism at Zoos SA

A 45 minute information session with an education officer to focus on tourism and Zoos SA.

Adelaide ZooProgram
The Role of Zoos: Secondary
The Role of Zoos: Secondary

A 45 minute introductory session with an education officer about the role of zoos in conservation, education, recreation and research.

Adelaide ZooProgram
Food Webs: Year 7
Food Webs: Year 7

A 45 minute information session with an education officer about food webs with a focus on animals at Adelaide Zoo.

Adelaide ZooProgram
Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Secondary School
Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Secondary School

A 45 minute introductory session with an education officer about ecosystems and biodiversity related to the animal collections at Adelaide and Monarto Zoos

Adelaide ZooProgram
Classification: Years 6 & 7
Classification: Years 6 & 7

A 45 minute information session with an education officer about classification with a focus on animals at Adelaide and Monarto Zoos.

Adelaide ZooProgram
Australian Animals: Reception to Year 3
Australian Animals: Reception to Year 3

A 45 minute information session with an education officer about Australian Animals with a focus on Australian animals at Adelaide Zoo.

Adelaide ZooProgram
SA Water Online Resources
SA Water Online Resources

Use your electronic whiteboard or students’ hand-held devices to solve interactive water puzzles and problems. SA Water has educational apps available from the iTunes or Google Play stores.

Online ResourcesDigital/eLearning
Changing Worlds: A South Australian Story website
Changing Worlds: A South Australian Story website

The content in Changing Worlds: A South Australian story provides teachers and students with the means to develop historical inquiries about the colonisation/invasion of South Australia.

Online ResourcesDigital/eLearning
Careers at the Zoo: Secondary School
Careers at the Zoo: Secondary School

A 45 minute introductory session with an education officer about careers at Adelaide and Monarto Zoos.

Adelaide ZooProgram
Threatened Species: Years 4 to 7
Threatened Species: Years 4 to 7

A 45 minute information session with an education officer about threatened species with a focus on Australian and South-East Asian animals at Adelaide Zoo.

Adelaide ZooProgram
Animal Features: Reception to Year 3
Animal Features: Reception to Year 3

A 45 minute information session with an education officer about animal features with a focus on Australian animal collections at Adelaide Zoo.

Adelaide ZooProgram
Wrecked
Wrecked

This program uses the analysis of sources to gain an understanding of how people lived in the past. Discover the techniques marine archaeologists use to explore and uncover mysteries of the deep.

South Australian Maritime MuseumProgram
Dolphin Discovery
Dolphin Discovery

This program explores the scientific concepts of responsibility, conservation, environment, habitat and living things. Students think critically and ethically about how their actions affect the marine environment.

South Australian Maritime MuseumInquiry trail
Dolphin Detectives
Dolphin Detectives

This program explores the scientific concepts of responsibility, conservation, environment, habitat and living things. Students think critically and ethically about how their actions affect the marine environment.

South Australian Maritime MuseumInquiry trail
Day at the Port
Day at the Port

The historic Port Adelaide precinct and Maritime Museum offer a rich learning environment for students to explore, discover and make connections through authentic learning experiences. Engage in a variety of experiences to support learning outcomes identified in the Australian Curriculum.

South Australian Maritime MuseumInquiry trail
Biodiversity at Sea
Biodiversity at Sea

This program introduces the eight coastal bio-regions of South Australia. Learn about our unique marine environment and how the features and adaptations of animals enable them to survive.

South Australian Maritime MuseumProgram
Observing Animals
Observing Animals

This program addresses the Australian Curriculum Biological Understanding for year 3. Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features.

South Australian MuseumProgram
Life Cycles: Years 4-7
Life Cycles: Years 4-7

This program addresses the year 4 Biological Science Understandings; living things have life cycles and depend on each other and their environment to survive.

South Australian MuseumProgram
Museum Safari
Museum Safari

This program addresses the Australian Curriculum Biological Science Understandings for year 1. Living things have a variety of external features and they live in different places where their needs are met.

South Australian MuseumInquiry trail
Exploring Egypt
Exploring Egypt

This program addresses the year 7 Australian History Curriculum. It provides teachers and students with materials to support in depth study on the Mediterranean society of ancient Egypt.

South Australian MuseumProgram
Biodiversity Babies
Biodiversity Babies

This program addresses the Australian Curriculum Biological Science Understandings for year 2. Living things grow, change and have offspring similar to themselves and exploring life stages in animals.

South Australian MuseumInquiry trail
Mawson and Minerals
Mawson and Minerals

Students in Years 7, 8 and 9 investigate displays about Mawson and ‘Changes to Earth’ in the Australian Curriculum: Science. ie. sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks.

South Australian MuseumProgram
Digging up the Past
Digging up the Past

This program aims to develop historical understandings and geography skills as identified in the Australian Curriculum. Examine artefacts from a local archaeological dig to discover how people lived in the past.

South Australian Maritime MuseumProgram
Life Onboard
Life Onboard

This learning experience makes links to the Australian Curriculum: History. Exploring the historical concepts of significance, evidence, continuity and change and empathy. A strong focus on historical skills, including questions and research, analysis and use of sources, perspectives and interpretations.

South Australian Maritime MuseumProgram
Aboriginal Culture - Colliding Worlds
Aboriginal Culture – Colliding Worlds

The Colliding World program highlights what life was like for Aboriginal people before and after the arrival of Europeans.

South Australian MuseumProgram
Ranger
Ranger

Where are they? What are they doing? Does behaviour change over time? Using various animal species, learn and practice a range of monitoring techniques.

Monarto Safari ParkProgram
Tourism and Sustainable Development
Tourism and Sustainable Development

This learning experience makes links to Geography and Business outcomes as negotiated for students and teachers.

Monarto Safari ParkPerformance
Animal Tales
Animal Tales

This program makes links to English and literacy outcomes and builds ethical understandings and social capacity for both students and teachers.

Monarto Safari ParkProgram
Biodiversity: Investigating Ecosystems
Biodiversity: Investigating Ecosystems

This program addresses the year 9 Science Understanding that ecosystems consist of communities of interdependent organisms and abiotic components of the environment.

South Australian MuseumProgram
Changing Worlds: A South Australian Story at the Art Gallery of SA
Changing Worlds: A South Australian Story at the Art Gallery of SA

This learning program connects to the Australian Curriculum: History by viewing works of art as primary sources, which provide students opportunities to develop historical understandings.

Art Gallery of South AustraliaProgram
Explorers
Explorers

This program focuses on the early European explorers that charted the southern coast of Australia in the early 19th century. View our exhibition, First Voyages, Exploring the Southern Coast and enjoy your 30 minute facilitated workshop.

South Australian Maritime MuseumProgram
What's the Story: eBook
What’s the Story: eBook

Students are able to use the iBook as a means for a self-paced exploration of the complexities of sentencing and decision-making in a court room environment.

Online ResourcesDigital/eLearning
Threatened Species and Conservation: Years 8-12
Threatened Species and Conservation: Years 8-12

Zoo focus days begin with a 45 minute information session with an education officer, which introduces students to animal and habitat conservation and the role of zoos in saving species from extinction.

Adelaide ZooProgram
20th and 21st Century Immigration
20th and 21st Century Immigration

This program looks at key events in South Australian immigration history since Federation. It emphasizes the concept of cause and effect. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives are highlighted.

Migration MuseumProgram
Scientists and Mathematicians in Schools
Scientists and Mathematicians in Schools

Scientists and Mathematicians in Schools is a program that creates and supports long-term partnerships between teachers and scientists or mathematicians. Partnerships are flexible to allow for a style and level of involvement that suits each participant.

CSIRO EducationProgram
CREST (CREativity in Science and Technology) Awards
CREST (CREativity in Science and Technology) Awards

Engage your students with open-ended science investigations and technology projects through the CREST (CREativity in Science and Technology) awards.

CSIRO EducationProgram
Biodiversity: Living Things
Biodiversity: Living Things

This biodiversity program highlights that living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment.

South Australian MuseumAudio Program