Childrens University Australasia Africa

 

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
May 2023

Food Process Worker

Food Process Worker

This link will take you to the website and the detailed activities.
Activity 1: Tastes like Chicken: How much chicken do you consume each week?
PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle 
After watching BTN, you are to create a timeline for the processing of chickens. You are to then investigate at the local supermarket the cost of different chicken products, create an Excel spreadsheet and work out best value for money. You are to do some research about the amount of chicken consumed by Australian families and survey the class about this consumption.

Activity 2: Thomas Foods International – their business explored!
PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle  High SchoolSecondary
After an introduction to Thomas Foods, you are to create a Lucid Flow Chart showing the process of the production of meat from Paddock to Plate. This activity can be challenging as the video with the information of the process of production starting at the Plate! Thomas Foods donate 4,300 kilos of sausage meat each month to Foodbank. You are to work out the donation and respond via a letter to this donation.

Activity 3 : Building a Conveyor Belt (from Try Engineering)
PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle  High SchoolSecondary

You are to work in teams to design and build a conveyor belt system out of everyday materials to transport pieces of candy/sweets 120cm. 2 – 3 lessons of 45 mins are required. As a group you are asked to reflect on their achievements and interactions with each other – good soft skills activity involving creative thinking skills within the team.
Easter Holidays

Let's Analyse
Word doc
Let's Analyse

PrimaryPrimary Years 5 - 6

In this activity, you are asked to look at a video singing about all sorts of jobs. You are to match up the job with its name, analyse and see if there is a balance between male and female, old and young.

Look at the Gamer and see if it is true that this job seems to always show a male.

Then you are to select one category in On the Job and see if it is balance and offer some recommendations.
March 2023

Surveyor

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

Activity 1: Measuring distances using Google maps

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle  High SchoolSecondary

 

This activity gets students to use Google Maps to work out measurements that they would normally encounter – eg. the distance between school and their sporting activity. They are also asked to go to Google Earth – Education to select one of the activities shown there – Gridlines in Earth with Carmen Sandiego; Immersive Global Imagery; and, Timelapse.

 

Activity 2: How ancient Babylonian land surveyors developed a unique form of Trigonometry – a 1000 years before the Greeks.
High SchoolSecondary

Using an article from The Conversation – 5 August 2021, students are to investigate the facts and figures of the Babylonians developing a unique form of trigonometry and challenging the idea that the Greeks were the initial inventors. They use the Retrieval Chart Strategy to summarise the data and hone their presentation and communication skills by explaining to another group what they have learnt.

February 2023

Data Analyst

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

Activity 2:  Data Analysis & Evaluation (developed by NSW Dept of Education)
Middle
Students find measures of location (mean, mode, median,) for small sets of data. Display in frequency table, stem and leaf plot or dot plot. Interesting activity in finding out about Year 8’s texting behaviour.
Suggestion of finding out how many TikToks students have watched in a week.

Activity 3: Big Data: What are you saying? (developed by Try Engineering)
High School

Students act as R&D entrepreneurs, learning ways to research variables affecting the market of their proposed (hypothetical) products.

Activity 4: Chemical Safety in Schools: a Data Analysis
Middle High School

Using an Excel spreadsheet, students are to investigate the chemicals found in schools – staff kitchens, technical classrooms, cleaner’s storerooms, etc. They are to then compare with the current Safety Data Sheets and analyse any discrepancies.

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.

Past Activities

2022


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