Looking through a telescope in Nitty Gritty Super City.
Image: Kimalee Reid
Source: Museum Victoria
Scienceworks education excursion packages have been designed to optimise student learning within a specific content area or theme. Each package provides a suggested program for a fun and interactive day at Scienceworks that also meets specific curriculum outcomes.
The Nitty Gritty and Tycho to the Moon package will give your students an opportunity to engage in a variety of activities, developing an understanding of the world around them. Through the exhibition children will develop skills such as observing, sorting and matching, and through the Planetarium show children will learn about the moon, sun and space travel.
This package includes the Nitty Gritty Super City exhibition and Tycho to the Moon Planetarium show.
An example itinerary could be:
10.00am - Morning tea/General viewing
11:00am - Nitty Gritty Super City exhibition
12:00pm - Tycho to the Moon Planetarium show
12.30pm - Departure
Available Terms 3 & 4, Monday to Friday.
Maximum of 80 students per session
Minimum of 15 students per session
Cost: $4.40 per student, plus education service fee.