Workshop bookings
Our curriculum-aligned workshops are delivered by QUT students studying in science, engineering, mathematics and technology.
QUT also offers a range of high school workshops.
Earth under the microscope
- Year level
- Year 4
- Curriculum alignment
- ACSSU075 - Earth's surface changes over time as a result of natural processes and human activity.
- Workshop activities
- Students investigate how rocks and soils change as a result of natural processes. Students examine samples using microscopes and test rocks and soils to learn more about their characteristics.
Adaptations
- Year level
- Year 5
- Curriculum alignment
- ACSSU043 - Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment.
- Workshop activities
- Students use microscopes to investigate features of plants and animals that help them adapt to their environment.
Toy Lab
- Year level
- Year 6
- Curriculum alignment
- ACSSU095 - Changes to materials can be reversible, such as melting, freezing evaporating; or irreversible, such as burning and rusting.
- Workshop activities
- This chemistry workshop is designed to get students thinking about chemical and physical changes. Students make lava lamps and bouncy balls to investigate chemical reactions (formerly What's In Stuff)
The case of the Dudesville bank robbery
- Year level
- Year 6
- Curriculum alignment
- ACSHE100 - Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to solve problems that directly affect peoples' lives.
- Workshop activities
- Students become forensic detectives for the day when they investigate a fictitious bank robbery. They will get to use microscopes and scientific techniques to analyse all the evidence from the scene of the crime.
Investigating electrical energy
- Year level
- Year 6
- Curriculum alignment
- ACSSU097 - Electrical circuits provide a means of transferring and transforming electricity
- Workshop activities
- This workshop is designed to give students hands-on experience in building and testing electrical circuits. Students use 'clip circuit' kits, which are safe and easy to use.
Alternative energy
- Year level
- Year 6
- Curriculum alignment
- ACSSU097 - Electrical circuits provide a means of transferring and transforming electricty.
- Workshop activities
- This workshop discusses the different types of alternative energy available, and how they are used to generate power. Students use solar panels and wind sails to investigate how different environmental variables affect energy output.
Waste free world
- Year level
- Year 4 - 6
- Curriculum alignment
- ACSSU073
- ACSSU094
- Workshop activities Students participate in a discussion about waste and the environment. They then create their own innovations on how to tackle this global issue. The workshop takes place in two sessions booked at least two weeks apart with in class work required.
Microscopy: the playground uncovered
Only available in August to celebrate National Science Week.
- Year level
- Prep - Year 3
- Workshop activities
- Explore and discover what lies in and under the playground. Designed to stimulate enquiring minds and show that there is more than meets the eye to everyday things.