When

18 to 27 February 2025

4:30 to 6:00 pm (AEDT)

Location

Online

Time

90 minutes

Audience

Educators

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About

In this FREE workshop you will: 

  • Get hands-on with aeronautical engineering and activities from the ‘A Long Way Down: Designing Parachutes’ unit.
  • Develop effective strategies to teach STEM content, and skills, to meet the learning needs of your students.
  • Gain the confidence to teach STEM in your classroom through the engineering design process.

After the workshop, we’ll send you a resource kit and unit of work so you can run Engineering is Elementary in your classroom. You’ll also be connected to a national community of practice for ongoing collaboration and support. 

Places are limited.

Things to know

  • Sessions are FREE to attend, but registration is required to secure your spot.
  • This workshop is a two-part series, to complete the workshop make sure you attend both Part 1 and Part 2. Each of the sessions is 1.5 hours.
  • There are two offerings – a Tuesday Group A and a Thursday Group B.
  • Engineering is Elementary units are designed for primary educators, however they can be adapted for secondary or other out-of-school settings.
  • Workshops are listed in AEDT time zone. Please check what time zone you are in and adjust accordingly.
  • Workshops will be delivered via Microsoft Teams.
  • If these dates don’t suit you, you can express your interest in future opportunities via the application form.
  • For more information, email our team.

What to expect

In A Long Way Down: Designing Parachutes, students will explore aeronautical engineering. Over the course of the unit, students will learn about air resistance, the history of flight, parachute design and gain an understanding of the work that aeronautical engineers do.

Students will investigate how variables such as parachute size, materials and suspension line length affect the stability, speed and accuracy of a parachute during its descent. 

With a specific purpose in mind, students will use the Engineering Design Process to ask, imagine, plan, create and improve their own parachute designs.

Schedule

When: 4:30PM – 6:00PM AEDT

  • Group A Part 1: Tuesday, 18 February.
  • Group A Part 2: Tuesday, 25 February.
  • Group B Part 1: Thursday, 20 February.
  • Group B Part 2: Thursday, 27 February.

About the program

Questacon Engineering is Elementary is a program that builds your confidence and capacity to teach engaging and meaningful STEM in the classroom.


 

Engineering is Elementary