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Canberra 2009
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Day 3
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Questacon
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WOW! Five levels of interactive science activities that were engaging and loads of fun for the students. Most didn’t even realise they were learning a scientific concept! Some comments from the year seven’s:
- Ebony Hamacek – I found it really interesting with heaps of new things on each floor.
- Monique Davies – I thought that Questacon was exciting because everything activity helped you learn something.
- Shay Potter – An exciting and insightful glimpse into science.
- Eden McGovern – fun, cool, interesting, amazing and great.
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As hard as we tried we couldn’t convince Mrs Parnell and Mrs Whittaker to have a go at the free fall, a drop from 6.7 meters onto a giant vertical slippery slide – chickens!! Mr Luhrs and Mrs Hart are still shaking from it!
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National Capital Exhibition
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At the National Capital Exhibition we discovered the unique history of Canberra, here’s just a small sample of what we came away with….
- Canberra was derived from “Kamberra” a local indigenous word said to mean ‘meeting place’.
- Canberra was designed by an American architect Walter Burley Griffin who won an international design competition in 1912.
- Lake Burley Griffin was designed by the centre point of the city.
- At any one time 6500 litres of water sprays 110 meters from the air from the Captain Cook Memorial jet in Lake Burley Griffin.
- Canberra’s town plan is geometrical with important government buildings like Parliament House located in a central triangular shape.
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National Film and Sound Archive
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At the National Film and Sound Archive we watched a variety of short clips from Australian television history. Australia’s first colour animation advertisement made in 1940 for Aeroplane Jelly was a hit with the students and it amazed them just how far technology has progressed. We also saw Australia’s oldest surviving footage from the Melbourne Cup race in 1896. To view all of the material in the archive you would need to watch TV for 24 hours a day for 14 years. The collection is enormous.
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Kid’s behaviour today was outstanding and all are fast asleep gearing up for a big day at the snow tomorrow!
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