Fire Practice + Sustainable Communities + TOUR
Details
Available: Term 1 - Term 4 (February 2025 - May 2025 SCI-FI Tour / August - December 2025 DISTRACTION Tour)
Levels: 7 - 12
Sessions: Tuesday to Friday 9:30am-2:15pm
Duration: 5 hours (three modules)
Capacity: 50 students (minimum 20 students)
Cost: $30 per student plus an Education Service Fee for each booking. For groups of 1-15 it’s $50, for 16-30 it’s $75 and for 31-60 it’s $100.
Fire Practice explores the important role that fire plays in the history and development of Country. Students will interrogate perceptions of fire by analysing and understanding Indigenous fire practices and fire ecology through a series of hands-on investigation activities using plant materials, research data and tools such as fire drills.
Fire Practice was created in collaboration with researchers at the University of Melbourne and is facilitated by a team of Indigenous facilitators, who are proud to share parts of their knowledge and culture.
In Sustainable Communities, students learn about what it takes to be sustainable, while competing in a game show.
Centred on the three pillars of sustainability: 'environment', 'society', and 'economy', students will explore what it takes to live, work and play in a sustainable community.
In a world where sustainability is heavily influenced by what we put in our shopping basket, students will consider their role in closing the loop to create a more circular economy.
Inspired by real-world examples of innnovative sustainable products (... and not-so-sustainable ones), they will explore the hidden costs involved in producing, shipping, and packaging essential items as they compete for points in this gamified experience.
So, come on down, buzz in, and sweep the competition as your students flex their sustainability skills.
In the SCI-FI/DISTRACTION Tour, Learning Experience Facilitators will introduce students to the key concepts and ideas, facilitate group discussions and activities, and prompt students to think critically about the works. Students will have the opportunity to independently explore the exhibition with a scavenger hunt quiz containing thought-provoking questions and reflective activities before sharing their experience with the group.
Key Themes: fire, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous culture, earth sciences, caring for Country, sustainability, land management, ecology, collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, ethical considerations, circular economies
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Develop their understanding of artificial intelligence, its limitations, and role in technological and societal change.
Use an artificial intelligence tool to train an algorithm with data.
Explore machine learning and its relationship to artificial intelligence.
Apply their understanding of artificial intelligence in creative and gamified contexts.
Develop their understanding of the capabilities of artificial intelligence to spread disinformation.
Explore ethical uses of artifical intelligence and its role in communication.
Learn strategies for identifying and critically evaluating content.
Work collaboratively to solve a scenario that involves misinformation spread by artifical intelligence.
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Digital Technologies
Creative and Critical Thinking
Ethical Capability
Intercultural Capability
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