Our programs have been designed around CORE features of students interests, strengths, goals and learning needs, and address the cognitive, affective, physical, social and aesthetic needs of all students while simultaneously enveloping an environment of FUN, theatrics and discovery.

We are in the process of mapping a variety of curriculum documents which include:

(1) Australian National Curriculum (Primary Syllabus)

We have spent extensive amounts of time mapping our shows, workshops and experiences against the Australian Curriculum as developed by ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority) and as illustrated and accessed on the Australian Curriculum website.

(2) My Time, Our Place Framework for School Age Care in Australia

(3) Early Years Learning Framework

Mapping Grid of Australian Curriculum

Understanding curriculum intent, content can be a VERY complex en-devour even for qualified experienced teachers, let alone for untrained science communicators or beginning teachers. In designing our workshops, we have ensured that they not only touch-on BUT dig deep into the syllabus outcomes to allow thorough exploration.

We do NOT just link syllabus statements to knowledge in our workshops in a tokenistic approach. We provide many ways to illustrate, explore and delve into the curriculum outcomes in a FUN and theatrical hands-on manner. They are designed around the ‘play-for purpose’ rationale. Play / exploration / discovery experiences contained within the workshops enable the children to learn-by-doing and discover (or in some cases re-discover) the joy of how mixing surprise and discovery can lead to powerful learning outcomes.

Intergrating the Strands into Workshops & Shows

The tables that follows illustrates some of the content curriculum links we have embedded into our workshops, shows that relates to the three interrelated strands within the Australian Curriculum:

(1) Science Understanding,

(2) Science as a Human Endeavour and

(3) Science Inquiry Skills.

We just don’t incorporate content, we provide experiences that integrate all three strands.

In addition, we also thread throughout our workshop experiences opportunities to incorporate essential general capabilities (Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Critical and Creative Thinking)

In-Depth Curriculum Mapping (GRID IN DEVELOPMENT)

We are in the process of mapping the Australian Curriculum for our programs and workshops.

The table below is ‘responsive’ with a search facility.

To Use: Simple place in the search box a term (eg Year 4). It will display ALL rows with year 4 in them.

This provides you with all the programs we have for year 4 and the associated outcomes.

If you were looking at a specific outcomes that you need, just place its code (eg ACSHE099) into the search  box and it will show you ALL programs that have that outcome in them.

At the moment we have only published our preschool, vacation care programs. Primary Science programs are in development. However, as any experienced teacher knows and can do, content / experiences can be explained at many levels K- university if needed.

Australian Curriculum Mapping to Programs