Australasia Children's University

 

Australasia Children's University is part of the Children's Universities Worldwide and operated in Australia by The University of Adelaide.

"On the Job" is an Australasia Children's University Online Learning Destination!

Get your students to investigate!

 

Here below are activities for the Australasia Children's University participants.

There is a direct link to the activities page for each Job described on the website for the whole process - step by step

or Please feel free to photocopy the linked Word docs describing the activities but you will need to go to the website to do the detailed activity (ies)

PrimaryPrimary: aimed at students from Years 5 - 7

MiddleMiddle:
aimed at students from Year 7 - 9
    
Job Activities
Christmas Holidays 2022-23

Naval Officer
This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.

Naval Officer
Word Doc: Giving an overview of the activities as below

Activity 1:  Australian ‘Battleship’
PrimaryPrimary Years 5 - 6 MiddleMiddle Years 7 - 9

In this activity, students are to create their own game of ‘Battleship’ using the Royal Australian Navy’s own ships after investigation. There is graphing involved.

Activity 2:  
Knots & Knots: What Sailors ought to know!
PrimaryPrimary Years 5 - 6   MiddleMiddle Years 7 - 9

Students are to study a range of knots, work out as a class (or family) the simplest to the hardest, select one knot to practice; create the knot 3 times – collate all the times as a class; graph the results and compare these results to their earlier conjecture.


Activity 3:
Telescoping Periscope (from Try Engineering.org)

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle High SchoolSecondary

Students are to design and build their own periscope and test it out.

Activity 4: Navy Cadets: STEM Activities

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle High SchoolSecondary
  
The Bebras Challenge is available on the CSIRO’s Digital Careers Program. The Navy uses this program to promote the cadets’ Critical and Creative Thinking. There are challenging puzzles (with answers) for students to complete.

November 2022

Bioinfomatics Scientist
This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.

Bioinfomatics Scientist
Word Doc: Giving an overview of the activities as below

Activity 1: Bioinformatics: Food Detective

MiddleMiddle  Years 7 – 9 High SchoolSecondary Years 10 -12

This lesson was developed by the University of Edinburgh for students studying Biology in Years 8 – 12. It entails getting the students to learn about DNA barcoding where specific DNA sequences are used to identify different species. The big question is whether pork sausages are 100% pork or not!

Activity 2:  
Sequence Bracelets

 PrimaryPrimary Years 5 - 6

Students are presented with different species genomes. They are given the sequences and have to then match the chemical bases (A-T or C-G) in a bracelet. This activity relies on concentration.

Activity 3: The Koala Genome Project – a Listening and Viewing Research Project
 MiddleMiddle  Years 7 – 9
This activity involves research and is suitable for Biology students.   

Activity 4: Cladogram including a Minion classification.

 PrimaryPrimary Years 5 – 6 MiddleMiddle  Years 7 – 9

This is a reasoning activity. Students are given information and they have to work out the relationships between the groups of animals or “things”. It is linked to an extended unit of work on Classification (8- 12 lessons).

October 2022

Beekeeper
This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.
Life on the Job


Cedar & Stu Anderson - Australian inventors of Honey Flow

Word Doc: Giving an overview of the activities as below

Activity 1: Connect Three: Honey Bees

PrimaryPrimary Years 5 - 6  MiddleMiddle  Years 7 – 9   High SchoolSecondary Years 10 -12

This activity encourages creativity and critical thinking skills. One activity out of nine is based on Mathematics where the students are to view a video about the Waggle Dance and create an infographic explaining the mathematics in the video. The other eight activities are based on the Flow Hive, Bees, Honey, Venn Diagram on the roles, creating a Tik-Tok on how Honey Flow works.

Activity 2: The Way of the Waggle Dance
PrimaryPrimary  Years 5 - 6  MiddleMiddle  Years 7 – 9  

Students are to use the Cornell Note-taking Method to analyse the bees dance and share their findings with another pair. They are to then play the “The Way of the Waggle Dance” game created by Arizona State University and describe the mathematics involved in the game.

September Holidays Special 2022

Word Doc: The World of Work

Full Student Worksheet [30 pages]

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle 

13 Activities including creating a Mural, comparing the movies Charlie & the Chocolate Factory; Movie Director; David Unaipon's Story; Inventions & Rap; Interviewing parents/carers about their job and, much more...
August 2022

Osteopath
This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.

Osteopath
Word Doc: Giving an overview of the activities.

Activity 1: The Correct or Right School Backpack?

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle  High SchoolSecondary (9-12)

Activity 2: The relationship between foot length & height (inspired by the Anatomical Record)

MiddleMiddle 
July 2022

 Zookeeper
This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.

Zookeeper
Word Doc: Giving an overview of the activities.

Activity 1: Design a suitable enclosure

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle 

Activity 2: Zoo Mathematics (Created by Taronga Zoo & NSW Education)

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle 
June 2022

Art Therapist
This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.

Art Therapist
Word Doc: Giving an overview of the activities.

Activity 1: Colouring in anybody?

PrimaryPrimary

Activity 2: Your Self Portrait
  
PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle 

Activity 3: Stitching lives back together: an ANZAC story

MiddleMiddle 
May 2022

Railway Infrastructure Worker
This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.

Railway Infrastructure Worker
Word Doc: Giving an overview of the activities.

Activity 1: Some new Australian Thomas the Tank Engine Characters

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle 

Activity 2: What do you know about the innovations of rail travel? A Research Project

MiddleMiddle 
April 2022

Logistics Analyst
This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.

Logistics Analyst
Word Doc: Giving an overview of the activities.

Activity 1: The Geography of Mandarins: Where do they come from?

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle 

Activity 2: Logistics, Global Trade & the Suez Canal

MiddleMiddle 

 


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