STEM Optics Workshop, 19 March 2025, Thebarton SA
March 19, 2025 - March 19, 2025
Gowrie SA Children's Program and Professional Learning Program, 43 Dew St, Thebarton SA 5031
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.
This 3.5-hour professional development workshop will give you the confidence to unlock the wonders of STEM in your service through the gateway of optics, develop and facilitate project work, and is a great workshop for educators who are both new and experienced in delivering STEM in early childhood settings.
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.
