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Education & Outreach

FLEET shares a responsibility to improve Australians’ engagement with science. Through its FLEET Schools and Public Outreach programs, we want to inspire and engage students and teachers at all levels, and the public about FLEET’s research, and to think critically about its value and application in society.

FLEET Schools: Here you will find home science activities, incursion/excursion opportunities, and student/teacher resources on curriculum-aligned topics that include critical thinking and hands-on activities, slides and worksheets;

Public outreach: FLEET heads out to engage the community through interactive exhibits at public events. FLEET has a pool of experts for public events, community talks.

Learn more about FLEET research, education and outreach at

Ask the Physicists Facebook page.

FLEET’s facebook.com/FLEETCentre

twitter.com/FLEETCentre

FLEET’s YouTube channel.

Contact us education@fleet.org.au

 

 

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Outreach News

Forces and energy: Electricity and sustainable energy

19.05.2023 Electricity, conductors, insulators, Energy, Forces and energy, Forces and energy, Forces and motion, Outreach, School teacher resources
Electrical energy Electrical energy also has many forms. For example, lightning, is a form of static electricity. You witness static electricity also when you rub a balloon against your hair. One of the most useful forms of electrical energy for humans is when it is generated from a current, which occurs when electrons flow through a circuit. It is the ...
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Forces and energy: Kinetic, potential, conservation and transformation

19.05.2023 Forces and energy, Forces and motion, Outreach, School teacher resources
Forms of energy The two broad forms of energy are potential and kinetic and each have different types, which we outline in more detail below. Others energy forms include sound and thermal energy. We will focus on potential and kinetic here. Light could also be considered a form of energy, but it gets interesting because is has both particle and ...
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Forces and Energy: Energy and Work

19.05.2023 Energy, Forces and energy, Forces and motion, Lesson, Outreach, School teacher resources
What do we mean by energy? Energy is the capacity of a physical system to do work or cause a change. We will examine what this means in detail below, but to help establish students’ baseline understanding of energy get students to do Activity 1. What is energy? Why is understanding energy important? When we design and build stuff important ...
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Spreading a passion for science: Outreach in 2022

04.04.2023 annual report, Outreach

FLEET has an extremely ambitious program of STEM outreach and communication, engaging Australians with science – from school children to the public to policymakers FLEET’s outreach activities improve public awareness of FLEET research and scientific literacy among school students. FLEET members get a greater appreciation of their audience’s interests, understanding and values, and learn how to effectively communicate with them. …

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Forging outreach relationships and taking nano and quantum to Rotorua schools

26.02.2023 News, Outreach

FLEET and MacDiarmid Institute members teamed up at the recent AMN10 conference in Rotorua NZ to conduct science outreach workshops for 320 local school students. Over four days, 25 volunteers from FLEET and partner organisation the MacDiarmid Institute visited seven schools and presented a variety of hands-on science workshops to students ranging from year 4 to 9, in a program …

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Rural schools’ outreach

20.01.2023 News, Outreach

In 2022 FLEET extended outreach activities to a number of regional and remote schools. Such schools have limited opportunities to engage with visiting scientists, or to and participate with them in hands-on science workshops. Engagement with working scientists, and hands-on exercises, helps engage students’ curiosity, and exposes them to a greater breadth and depth of career opportunities in STEM and …

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