FIRE PRACTICE + TOUR

Details

Available: Term 1 - Term 4 (February 2025 - May 2025 SCI-FI Tour / August - December 2025 DISTRACTION)

Levels: 7 - 12

Sessions: Tuesday to Friday at 11am-2:15pm

Duration: 3.75 hours (two modules)

Capacity: 50 students (minimum 20 students)

Cost: $20 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.

We have limited Schools Access Program funding available for low-SES (ICSEA <1050) and regional schools to access a discounted rate of $10 per student (plus the Education Service Fee above). Access funding is limited, so please note in your booking request form and our team will confirm if remaining funding is available for your school to access this discounted rate.

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 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

Gallery Tour
Students will explore and participate in the transdisciplinary art-science-technology installations, experiments and works of the exhibition.
Participate in discussions and activities chosen by their teacher (teachers are welcome to use the accompanying exhibition resource).
Be able to ask questions and have conversations with Mediators – our in-house communicators with expert knowledge of the science and art behind the works.
Workshop
Identify how Indigenous people understand and utilise fire to manage the landscape.
Gain insight into Indigenous ways of Caring for Country.
Understand the key components of fire and what factors affect the properties of a fire.
Explore fire starting techniques by use of a wood drill to generate heat.
Explore current research related to Indigenous land management.
Informally engage with university students - who make up our facilitator team - and learn about diverse post-school pathways.
Informally engage with university students - who make up our facilitator team - and learn about diverse post-school pathways. "
"Cross-curriculum priority: Learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.
A summary of the Victorian Curriculum F-10 curriculum directly related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture can be found here.