Heart, Lungs & Bones Lab
Discover the amazing machine inside you!
Pairs explore an articulated skeleton, study real X-rays and joint models, rebuild the organs in a torso, make model blood, listen to their own heart and see how lungs fill with air. Every experience comes with a challenge card matched to your stage.
Years 3–6 + HPGE
Hands-on
Investigations
Inquiry Based
Primary School Workshops
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What's In Heart, Lungs & Bones Lab?
A hands-on workshop about the human body: how do the body's systems work together? Every student investigates with a challenge card matched to your stage.
Every session opens with a surprise about the machine inside you, and ends with teams sharing what they discovered about their own bodies.
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Year Levels
Years 3–6 + HPGE
Duration
60 or 90 minutes
Group Size
Up to 32
Price (incl GST)
$690 (60 min)
$21.56 per student
$790 (90 min)
$24.69 per student
Differentiated challenge cards matched to your class
Choose experiences to match your class interests
Predict, test, observe and explain
THE CRAZY SCIENTIST DIFFERENCE
Multiple Investigations. Learning Matched to Every Stage
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
Explore the learning at your stage.
Stage 2 — Heart, Lungs & Bones Lab
Stage 2 cards challenge students to work out how the skeleton protects and supports the body, how joints let it move, and what exercise does to the heart.
Relevant NSW Science & Technology outcomes (2024)
Every group works from a Stage 2 challenge card written for these outcomes.
✓ ST2-SCI-01 — Body systems work together to enable movement
Identify parts of the human skeleton that offer protection and support
✓ ST2-PQU-01 — Physical and living systems depend on energy (skills focus)
poses questions to create fair tests that investigate the effects of energy on living things and physical systems
✓ ST2-DAT-01 — Physical and living systems depend on energy (skills focus)
uses and interprets data to describe patterns and relationships
See the Science in Action
LEARNING BEYOND THE WOW
What Students learn & How We Support Teachers
What Your Students Will Learn
Name the main bones and joints
Describe the parts of blood and their proportions
Explain how the heart and lungs work together
Measure and compare heart rate data
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
How we support teachers
Challenge cards for every stage, used by
students during the session.
Classroom follow-up experiments to keep the learning going
Risk assessment, Working With Children Check and public liability insurance details, sent before your visit
Thinking skills students practise
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Workshop Requirements & Bookings
Everything You Need to Know
Up to 32 students per session
Group Size
60 or 90 minutes
Session Time
A classroom with tables for 16 pairs and a little clear floor space for the exercise in Heartbeat Lab. Everything runs inside.
Space & Setup
All materials, equipment, safety glasses and stage challenge cards.
What we Provide
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Enquire About This Workshop
30+ Years Teaching Science
Experienced science teacher designing activities that keep children engaged, involved and learning.
We Bring Everything
Experiments, equipment and materials come with us — you just provide the space and the kids.
Tailored to Your School
Activities are adjusted to suit your class’s stage
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