STEM Optics Workshop, 16 May 2025, Alice Springs NT – Morning Session
May 16, 2025 - May 16, 2025
Family Room, Braitling Primary School, 80 Head St, Braitling NT 0870
In this interactive Optics workshop, you will learn to appreciate the magic of colour, mirrors, and shadows through the eyes of a child and explore the pedagogy behind developing child-led inquiry projects in your service or classroom.
STEM topic: Optics
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to create rich STEM learning experiences and use optics as a topic through which to teach the outcomes of the Early Years Learning Framework. Interactive activities can include:
- Split sunlight in different ways and make rainbows with crystals, soap bubbles, and CDs.
- Follow, catch, and trap your shadow.
- See how far you can “transport” light throughout a dark room.
- Explore reflections in everyday life and discover why some reflections are distorted, magnified, shrunk or even upside down.
- Make your own spying device.
- Build a shadow theatre and play with puppets.
- Investigate the connections between three dimensional objects, their shadows, and make your own sundial.
- Find out how to create and mix different colours of lights.
- Mix colours into brown, and then try unmixing them.
- Learn about binocular rivalry and test your own peripheral vision.
