SAVE THE DATE: July 3rd
Venue: Logan Park High School

Keynote Speaker: Lucy Shiffelbein

Lucy Shieffelbien is the Service Delivery Manager for the National Poisons Centre. For the past 24 years, she has been responsible for ensuring the National Poisons Centre delivers a high quality, safe and efficient Poisons Information Service that is freely accessible to all New Zealanders.

Lucy is very passionate about poison prevention and education and realises the value of knowing what to do in the unfortunate event that an exposure does occur. She undertook her fellowship training in poison prevention and education in the United States and has led a WHO funded project for strengthening capacity for managing poisonings in 5 Pacific Island nations (Samoa, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Cook Islands).

Science Alive

Session 1: Discover the Science Alive Education Portal

A free resource library for kaiako with student facing interactive lessons, using local concepts that inspire action while unpacking key scientific knowledge. This offers a great addition to your literacy programme and a wealth of integrated, hands on activities for your students to deepen their knowledge.

Session 2: Observation and Investigation planning in the Primary classroom

Making It work for your learners, your priorities and your time. Join us for a practical insight into developing the skill of observation in your students, tie it to literacy and numeracy and walk away with activities for your ākonga that you can implement immediately.

Otago Museum: Starlab

Step inside our Starlab Inflatable Planetarium and journey through southern skies!

We'll explore stars, constellations, and cultural sky knowledge in this engaging, fully immersive experience that aligns with the national curriculum.

Our expert educators will guide the audience on an unforgettable space adventure, tailored to their level and learning objectives. Whether it's Māori and Pasifika star lore, seasonal skies, celestial navigation, or deep space wonders, Starlab makes science come alive!

Wonder Project

This project-based programmes are designed to inspire Year 5–13 rangatahi with the wonders of STEM. Knitting seamlessly into the NZ Curriculum, programmes are hands-on, super fun and engaging and available to any school in Aotearoa, totally free.

We design everything to be accessible for all ākonga across Aotearoa and aspire to bridge the gap of women, Māori and Pacific Peoples working in STEM fields.

You will have access to the three kits and you will be shown how to undertake your investigation with these kits.

Rocket Challenge:

Ākonga blast off into STEM by designing, building and launching a water rocket. They’ll learn about Newton’s laws, the engineering design process, and working as a rōpū.

Power Challenge:

Power up! Ākonga design and build a wind turbine and work as a rōpū to light up their own mini town. Along the way they discover the amazing phenomenon of electricity and renewable energy.

Water Challenge:

Ready, set, flow! Ākonga construct and test a mini model of Aotearoa New Zealand's wai network. They'll explore the journey of wai and how STEM is used to collect, clean, connect and care for one of Earth’s most precious taonga.

Botanical Gardens

The Dunedin Botanic Garden offers self-guided education kits that engage students in outdoor learning aligned with the New Zealand Curriculum. Establishing links with the Botanic Garden ensures students feel connected and maintain a relationship with this important educational and recreational resource.

Available kits are:

Each education kit provides fun, curriculum-linked activities and items for a visit to Dunedin Botanic Garden, these can be collected from the information centre.

All kits will be able for you to look at and there are free resources such as worksheets, lesson plans, activity outlines and instructions that can be made available to you for free.

Registration Information

To register for our Primary Teacher workshops, go to the form below.

Early bird $150 pp (includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea) and transport if needed to get to different locations.

Late registration is $200

School deal $500 for up to 5 people.

Registrations due: May 23rd