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All webinar times are given in Australian Eastern time - SA, NT, QLD and WA will need to adjust for time zone differences accordingly.

RocksExpo 2-PD Introducing Our Dynamic Planet @ Macleod

July 24, 2024 @ 2:30 PM

PD workshop for Science/Geography secondary teachers/lab-technicians & upper primary teachers

[Vic curriculum VCSSU128, VSSU116 and VCSSU089]

Life, Fossils & the 5 Big Extinctions (Aust fossil changes through time, big extinctions, integrated plate tectonics, volcanic events/climate)

  • with classroom-ready Powerpoints, short videos, weblinks


Venue: Quantum Victoria (grounds of Charles Latrobe College), 235 Kingsbury Dr, Macleod Vic
Meeting Room: go to front office to sign in & be directed to meeting room
Date: Wednesday 24 July 2024, Facilitator: Sarah Gerardson

 

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Critical Minerals 1 - T3 2024

July 24, 2024 @ 4:00 PM

Critical Minerals 1: Introduction and Overview

What are critical minerals? Episode 1 of the series will include a minerals refresher, look at the differing definitions of critical minerals around the globe, unpick some of the jargon, examine how many more minerals are used today in the past, and discuss the future of traditional minerals.
 
 
 (Pictured: Spodumene, a source of Lithium)

 

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RocksExpo 2-PD Introducing Our Dynamic Planet @ Port Pirie

July 25, 2024 @ 3:15 PM

Energy and the Energy Transition (all energy types compared, path to Net Zero), yr 9-12 focus (STEM/physics/chemistry crossover)
Critical Minerals & Renewable Energy (what is a critical mineral /supply-demand/exploring-mining-processing in Aust / batteries & recycling, electric car & renewable energy) (Year 6-12 STEM)

School: Mid North Christian College, 43 Port Davis Rd, Port Pirie SA
Meeting Room: attendees to go to the front desk to be directed to Meeting Room
Date: Thursday 25 July 2024, PDs 3:15pm-6:15pm
School Facilitator: Thomas Jaeschke (light supper will be provided)

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Our Place in Space 1 - T3 2024

July 25, 2024 @ 4:30 PM

Our Place in Space 1: The Universe

In this episode we will look at our place in the Biggest Picture-the Universe. How did it start, are we in one of many? Gravity waves have just been detected. Dark Energy and Dark Matter make up most of what there is. How do stars form, evolve and die? Black holes!
 
CMB Timeline300 no WMAP
 

 

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RocksExpo 5-PD Introducing Our Dynamic Planet @ Loxton

July 29, 2024 @ 8:30 AM

Mon 29 July 2024, 8:30am-9:40am: Short Local Fieldtrip, Loxton
10am-3pm: 5-primary-oriented PDs 4 X Casual Relief Funds on application
Rocks (Rock Kit Teaching Pack, Plate Tectonics poster exercise)
Water Cycle & Wet Rocks (artesian water, porous rock exercise)
Our Place in Space (incl. Mars-Earth landform & other exercises)
Critical Minerals & Renewable Energy – electric car/recycling
Local Fossils & Explorer Box Exercise for SA (local geology of the region, sponge cake exercise, explorer box, videos)

Host School: Loxton Lutheran School, 6 Luther Rd, Loxton SA   

Meeting Room: go to front desk to be directed to STEM meeting room    Facilitator: Karl Klose

 

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RocksExpo 4-PD Introducing Our Dynamic Planet @ Renmark

July 30, 2024 @ 1:00 PM

4-PD Rocks/Rock Kit, Plate Tectonics/integrated story, Riding the Climate Rollercoaster, Fossils & the 5 Big Extinctions (with Rock Kit Teaching Pack, Plate Tectonics poster, videos & hands-on exercises)

4 X Casual Relief Funds on application (apply p2)

  • Rocks (rock kit teaching pack) (TESEP Rock Kit 3D renders, virtuals, tour of the Plate Tectonics poster (new curriculum year 8 focus) & integrated story - Plate Tectonics 1pm-2pm, Tea Break
  • Riding the Climate Rollercoaster (climate drivers, ocean-atmosphere interactions, planetary influences, cycles through geologic time) 2:15pm-3:30pm – year 9-12 focus, Tea Break
  • Fossils & the 5 Big Extinctions (year 10-12 focus) (extinctions & fauna/flora changes related to plate tectonics/climate/volcanic events etc 3:40-5pm – year 9-12 focus

School: St Francis of Assisi College, 260 Twentyfirst St, Renmark SA
Meeting Room: sign in at front office, get directions to the meeting room
Date: Tues 30 July 2024, 1:00pm – 5:00pm Facilitator: Natalie Meuret

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RocksExpo 3-PD Introducing Our Dynamic Planet @ Hamilton

July 31, 2024 @ 1:00 PM

Rocks (the Rock Kit Teaching Pack & the Integrated Plate Tectonics story), yr 8-9
Energy and the Energy Transition (all energy types compared, path to Net Zero), yr 9-12 focus (STEM/physics/chemistry crossover)
Riding the Climate Rollercoaster (climate through geologic time, plate tectonics/climate events in Earth’s history/fossil extinctions) yr 9-12 biology/genetics/geography crossover

School: Monivae College, 133 Ballarat Rd, Hamilton Vic

Meeting Room: attendees to go to the front desk to be directed to Meeting Room

Date: Wednesday 31 July 2024, PDs 1:00pm-5:30pm                             Facilitator: Julie Dohle (a catered lunch will be provided

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All Events Victoria

Critical Minerals 2 - T3 2024

July 31, 2024 @ 4:30 PM

Critical Minerals 2: Critical mineral uses – our high tech lives

Critical minerals are used in a broad spectrum of applications. You may have heard about the minerals in your mobile phone. But what about in medicine, aerospace and everyday life. Episode 2 will look at the use of critical minerals behind our high tech lives..
 
 Smartphone metals VCE 4
 

 

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Our Place in Space 2 - T3 2024

August 01, 2024 @ 4:30 PM

Our Place in Space 2: The UniSolar Systemverse

In this episode we will look at our place in the Solar System. How did it form? Where are we in the Galaxy? How did the Sun form? What are comets and asteroids? We look at the role of water in the Solar System, and a brief walk through our planets with some of the latest pictures.
 
Solar System true color
 

 

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Critical Minerals 3 - T3 2024

August 07, 2024 @ 4:30 PM

Critical Minerals 3: Critical mineral uses – the energy transition

We are living through an amazing transition from non-renewable (e.g. coal, gas) to renewable (e.g. solar, wind) energy. Renewable energy requires an array of critical minerals from construction to computing. This episode will look at the number and volume of critical minerals required to enable this energy transition.

 

 Smartphone metals VCE 4

 

 

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Our Place in Space 3 - T3 2024

August 08, 2024 @ 4:30 PM

Our Place in Space 3: The Moon

In this episode we will look at our nearest neighbour in space. What do we know about it and how did it form? What is it made of? We will look at what the Apollo landings found-and learn about moon quakes. Is there water on the Moon? Is the Moon important for us here on the Earth?
 
FullMoon2010
 
 

 

 
 

 

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RocksExpo 2-PD Introducing Our Dynamic Planet @ Clare

August 09, 2024 @ 2:30 PM

RocksExpo 2-PD Introducing Our Dynamic Planet

  • Rocks (and how to use the TESEP rock kit)
  • Plate Tectonics (the tectonic Earth history)
  • Critical Minerals (e-car, wind turbine magnets, solar panels, recycling)

School: Clare HS, Elliott St, Clare, SA
Meeting Room: sign in at front desk & get directed (STEM Meeting Room)
Date: Fri 09 August 2024; School Facilitator: Ryan O’Neill

  • 2:30pm – 3:20pm Rocks (Rock Kit Teaching Pack & integrated Plate Tectonics story, yr8),
  • 3:30-4:30pm Plate Tectonics (tectonic Earth history, mountain-building, volcanic events, extinctions), supper break,
  • 4:45pm – 6:30pm Critical Minerals (Renewables, electric car)

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Critical Minerals 4 - T3 2024

August 14, 2024 @ 4:30 PM

Critical Minerals 4: Sourcing critical minerals – natural resources

Critical minerals can be sourced from natural resources, recycling and reprocessing. Episode 4 will look at the geological settings where deposits of critical minerals form – linking to the TESEP rock kit and plate tectonics poster – and how these deposits can be mined.
 
 Smartphone metals VCE 4

 

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Our Place in Space 4 - T3 2024

August 15, 2024 @ 4:30 PM

Our Place in Space 4: The Earth

In this episode we will look at things Extra-Terrestrial on Earth. What killed the megafauna? How did the first land form? Is life extra-terrestrial? Where did our water come from? Why wouldn’t we be here if the dinosaurs had not been wiped out by a meteorite? Why is ET-climate change important for humans to evolve?
 
The Blue Marble remastered

 

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Critical Minerals 5 - T3 2024

August 21, 2024 @ 4:30 PM

Critical Minerals 5: Sourcing critical minerals – recycling and processing

As well as the demand for critical minerals is out pacing the discovery of new natural resources, society is more conscious of the environmental and community aspects of mining, and need to recycle. This episode will explore the ‘circular economy’ model to recycle and repurpose minerals that have already been mined, and look at new advances in recycling and reprocessing to source critical minerals.
 
 Smartphone metals VCE 4
 

 

All Events Australia-wide Webinars

Critical Minerals 6 - T3 2024

August 28, 2024 @ 4:30 PM

Critical Minerals 6: Critical minerals in Australia.

Australia is well endowed with mineral resources and a world-class mining sector. The last episode of the series will focus on this endowment, geopolitical risks to our supply chain, advances and challenges in recycling minerals, and current projects to maximise mineral recovery from historical mining
 
 Smartphone metals VCE 4
 

 

All Events Australia-wide Webinars

RocksExpo 2-PD Introducing Our Dynamic Planet @ Macleod

December 10, 2024 @ 2:30 PM

PD workshop for Science/Geography secondary teachers/lab-technicians & upper primary teachers

[Vic curriculum VCSSU128, VSSU116 and VCSSU089]

Riding the Climate Rollercoaster (climate drivers, ocean-atmosphere interactions, planetary influences, cycles through geologic time, big extinction events)

  • with classroom-ready Powerpoints, short videos, weblinks


Venue: Quantum Victoria (grounds of Charles Latrobe College), 235 Kingsbury Dr, Macleod Vic
Meeting Room: go to front office to sign in & be directed to meeting room
Date: Tuesday 10 December 2024, Facilitator: Sarah Gerardson

 

Download the flyer and registration form here (PDF).

Download the flyer and registration form here (WORD).

All Events Victoria

RocksExpo 2-PD Introducing Our Dynamic Planet @ Macleod

December 11, 2024 @ 2:30 PM

PD workshop for Science/Geography secondary teachers/lab-technicians & upper primary teachers

[Vic curriculum VCSSU100 and VCSSU089]

Critical Minerals and Renewable Energy

  • electric car, space telescopes, medical imaging, touch screens
  • where & how mined, recycling, sustainability
  • with classroom-ready Powerpoints, short videos, weblinks


Venue: Quantum Victoria (grounds of Charles Latrobe College), 235 Kingsbury Dr, Macleod Vic
Meeting Room: go to front office to sign in & be directed to meeting room
Date: Wednesday 11 December 2024, Facilitator: Sarah Gerardson

 

Download the flyer and registration form here (PDF).

Download the flyer and registration form here (WORD).

All Events Victoria