To support and enrich learning for our Year 7 STEM "Our Place in Space" unit, students engaged in a session inside the StarLab planetarium. This inflatable Science theatre immersion uses brand new technology to project digital images of almost anything in space. Students zoom past the moon to explore the stars, planets, comets, nebulae and other galaxies.
A final session was also opened up to inquisitive Year 8-12 students.
During their space exploration experience students looked more in depth at the difference between starry night sky between winter and summer. They learnt how the First nations people learnt when emu eggs were ready to be harvested and how the first European travellers used the stars to help them navigate south to Australia. We also looked how the Earth's tilt and movement around the Sun gives us our seasons.
Nicole Martin
Curriculum Coordinator Science and STEM
