FLEET’s Senior Education & Training Coordinator visited a primary school to speak to Grade 2 students about electricity and electrons. Students were challenged to make a light bulb light up using a battery and some wires, and to find materials that could act as conductors. The students have been studying about materials and technology this term, so the topics fit well into their curriculum, extending them to think about scientists as real people and science in the world around them.
FLEET will reach out to students, schools and the wider community to share a passion for science, as well as to communicate themes broadly relevant to our research. We are working with Growing Tall Poppies Science Partnership, Scientists and Mathematicians in Schools, the Australian Institute of Policy and Science, and the ARC Science of Learning Research Centre to bring science and FLEET research to students across Australia.
If you or your school would like to be involved with FLEET, please contact us at education@fleet.org.au
See more FLEET outreach events at fleet.org.au/outreach