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Program Details

  • Year 8 – 9
  • 26 Students
  • 2-2.5 Hours
  • Onsite - Time Negotiable
  • Online N/A

About

Curriculum Focus & Capabilities

  • Science
  • Mathematics
  • Critical & Creative Thinking
  • Personal & Social
  • Digital Literacy

Technical & Personal Skills

Scientific inquiry, laboratory safety, design, problem solving, communication, collaboration

Create session

Do your students struggle for inspiration when trying to develop meaningful and answerable scientific questions?

Empower your students to leverage their natural curiosity as they discover that sometimes there is more to the world than meets the eye. They will learn to transform “why” questions into “how” questions, honing their scientific skills to deconstruct a visual experience, discovering how colour is composed, processed, and perceived. Applying this knowledge, they will create their own visual illusion to take home and share. 

Students will leave with an understanding of how questions arise from everyday experiences, how they can be framed and investigated, that experiments don’t have to be daunting, and that every answer is the start of a new question.

Students will

  • Learn where a scientific question can come from
  • Understand what can make a question “Scientific”
  • Implement steps of the Scientific method to investigate questions
  • Create a colour illusion to take away
Program Pathways

Skills and knowledge developed in this program will help support engaged and inspired students to enter the Peter Doherty Science Award (Go Deep Special Opportunity).

Possible Pathways