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FLEET is committed to communicating science to students, schools and the wider community. FLEET is currently developing a program to deliver to school students, working with Growing Tall Poppies Science Partnership, STEM Professionals in Schools, the Australian Institute of Policy and Science, and the ARC Science of Learning Research Centre to bring FLEET research to students across Australia. If you or your school would like to be involved with FLEET, please contact us at education@fleet.org.au

Home Science Activities

FLEET aims to make science more accessible to the wider community, and bring science to even the youngest Australians. We encourage families to do activities at home that foster a love for science from an early age. To help encourage future scientists, FLEET provides fun, easy home science activities and experiments. Check back here for a new activity each week.

Home Science: Activities with teacher resources

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FLEET School Home Science: Forces and motion

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Outreach News

Forces and energy: Quantum energy

19.05.2023 Energy, Forces and energy, Forces and energy, Forces and motion, Outreach, Quantum, School teacher resources
Checking out Einstein and going quantum Quantum and classical physics both have the concept of energy in common. The conservation of energy still applies in quantum physics the same way it does in classical physics. The difference is in the math used to calculate energy and work. In quantum physics it is all about probability – the energy something has ...
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Forces and energy: Electricity and sustainable energy

19.05.2023 Electricity, conductors, insulators, Energy, Forces and energy, Forces and energy, Forces and motion, Outreach, School teacher resources
Electrical energy Electrical energy also has many forms. For example, lightning, is a form of static electricity. You witness static electricity also when you rub a balloon against your hair. One of the most useful forms of electrical energy for humans is when it is generated from a current, which occurs when electrons flow through a circuit. It is the ...
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Forces and energy: Kinetic, potential, conservation and transformation

19.05.2023 Forces and energy, Forces and motion, Outreach, School teacher resources
Forms of energy The two broad forms of energy are potential and kinetic and each have different types, which we outline in more detail below. Others energy forms include sound and thermal energy. We will focus on potential and kinetic here. Light could also be considered a form of energy, but it gets interesting because is has both particle and ...
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Forces and Energy: Energy and Work

19.05.2023 Energy, Forces and energy, Forces and motion, Lesson, Outreach, School teacher resources
What do we mean by energy? Energy is the capacity of a physical system to do work or cause a change. We will examine what this means in detail below, but to help establish students’ baseline understanding of energy get students to do Activity 1. What is energy? Why is understanding energy important? When we design and build stuff important ...
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FLEET Schools: Forces and Energy

19.05.2023 Electricity, conductors, insulators, Forces and energy, Outreach, Quantum, School teacher resources, Science Communications
This unit covers: What is energy Different forms of energy Conservation/transfer of energy Generation of electricity Critical thinking about the human use of electricity, its implications and the role of the scientists and society Curriculum links The resource content and activities are linked to the Victorian and Australian curriculum. See the following curriculum codes: Year 4 ACSSU076 (investigating the effect ...
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Spreading a passion for science: Outreach in 2022

04.04.2023 annual report, Outreach

FLEET has an extremely ambitious program of STEM outreach and communication, engaging Australians with science – from school children to the public to policymakers FLEET’s outreach activities improve public awareness of FLEET research and scientific literacy among school students. FLEET members get a greater appreciation of their audience’s interests, understanding and values, and learn how to effectively communicate with them. …

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