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Tag: One-off Events

Events that occur only once eg. a special guest speaker, a panel of guests, a collaboration between content providers that is not a regular occurrence.

Using eSmart Products – As part of National eSmart Week

After building an understanding of positive digital citizenship, hear about the FREE eSmart Digital Licence+ and eSmart Media Literacy Lab Teacher Using eSmart Products – As part of National eSmart Week After building an understanding of positive digital citizenship, hear about the FREE eSmart Digital Licence+ and eSmart Media Literacy Lab and how they can be implemented in your classroom to support students to both understand risks and harness opportunities in online spaces. (Audience: Teachers, librarians or support staff in upper primary or lower secondary) Free Alannah & Madeline Foundation Live Event – Scheduled Teams Primary PDHPE Interpersonal Skills Health, Wellbeing and Relationships Special Event Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free One-off Events Teacher Professional Development Wellbeing National eSmart Week #eSmartWeek

Storytime – As part of National eSmart Week

Join the eSmart Schools’ team as we read the book Swoosh, Glide and Rule Number 5 by Barbara Uecker and Peter Viska. Year 1 – S1 Year 2 – S1 Year 3 – S2 Storytime – As part of National eSmart Week This story takes us into the Australian bush, to the treetop home of eSafety sugar glider twins Swoosh and Glide as they learn with their family about being safe online.

Explore what it means to be a positive digital citizen.

Ensure you have time to plan your week and get your students excited for National eSmart Week 2024.
Across the week students will be encouraged to explore topics such as:
• What you can do and say to be positive online
• How algorithms, echo chambers and customised messaging impact our view of the world
• How to use technology purposefully
• How to use your agency to influence change in the online environment Free Alannah & Madeline Foundation Live Event – Scheduled Teams Primary PDHPE Self Management Skills Healthy, Safe and Active Lifestyles PDHPE Interpersonal Skills Health, Wellbeing and Relationships Special Event Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free One-off Events Wellbeing National eSmart Week #eSmartWeek

What is Digital Citizenship? As part of National eSmart Week (Audience: Teachers, librarians or support staff in upper primary or lower secondary)

What is digital citizenship? Is it the same as online safety? Teacher What is Digital Citizenship? As part of National eSmart Week (Audience: Teachers, librarians or support staff in upper primary or lower secondary) Explore the concept of digital citizenship and discover how eSmart Schools can support you in developing these skills with your students. Free Alannah & Madeline Foundation Live Event – Scheduled Teams Primary PDHPE Interpersonal Skills Health, Wellbeing and Relationships Special Event Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free One-off Events Teacher Professional Development Wellbeing National eSmart Week #eSmartWeek

Curator’s intro: Ralph Heimans

This Virtual Highlight Tour will be delivered using Zoom. Year 11 – S6 Year 12 – S6 TAFE Students Teacher Parent Curator’s intro: Ralph Heimans Join Joanna Gilmour, Senior Curator, for a peek at some of the portraits and themes in the exhibition Ralph Heimans: Portraiture. Power. Influence.

IMAGE: The Architecture of Music (Vladimir Ashkenazy), 2011 Ralph Heimans AM. © Ralph Heimans Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Secondary Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free One-off Events STEM/STEAM Teacher Professional Development #portraitau #VHT

Information Disorder – As part of National eSmart Week (Audience: Teachers, librarians or support staff in upper primary or lower secondary)

In this session, we will discuss the importance of developing media literacy skills to ensure safe and responsible engagement with the online world. Teacher Parent Information Disorder – As part of National eSmart Week (Audience: Teachers, librarians or support staff in upper primary or lower secondary) We will explore ways of identifying and responding to issues such as mis- and dis- information and what influences the media that we are delivered. Free Alannah & Madeline Foundation Live Event – Scheduled Teams Primary PDHPE Interpersonal Skills Health, Wellbeing and Relationships Special Event Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free One-off Events Teacher Professional Development Wellbeing National eSmart Week #eSmartWeek

Storytime – As part of National eSmart Week

Join the eSmart Schools’ team as we read the book Swoosh, Glide and Rule Number 5 by Barbara Uecker and Peter Viska. Year 1 – S1 Year 2 – S1 Year 3 – S2 Storytime – As part of National eSmart Week This story takes us into the Australian bush, to the treetop home of eSafety sugar glider twins Swoosh and Glide as they learn with their family about being safe online.

Explore what it means to be a positive digital citizen.

Ensure you have time to plan your week and get your students excited for National eSmart Week 2024.
Across the week students will be encouraged to explore topics such as:
• What you can do and say to be positive online
• How algorithms, echo chambers and customised messaging impact our view of the world
• How to use technology purposefully
• How to use your agency to influence change in the online environment Free Alannah & Madeline Foundation Live Event – Scheduled Teams Primary PDHPE Self Management Skills Healthy, Safe and Active Lifestyles PDHPE Interpersonal Skills Health, Wellbeing and Relationships Special Event Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free One-off Events Wellbeing National eSmart Week #eSmartWeek

Infusion, No Movement, No Sound (Available on Demand from 18th March until 29th March)

Digital Stream available 18-29 March. Celebrating African, Indian and Australian rhythms with a global collective of contemporary and traditional dance and music. Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Year 7 – S4 Year 8 – S4 Year 9 – S5 Infusion, No Movement, No Sound (Available on Demand from 18th March until 29th March) Infusion, No Movement, No Sound weaves together a tapestry of African cultures into a vibrant demonstration of contemporary dance and music from global artists, Jamestown Collective, now situated in Sydney.

The infectiously life-affirming performance by dance artists Lucky Lartey (Ghana), and Girls on Tap’s Sally Dashwood (Australia), accompanied by spoken work artist, Michael St George (Jamaica and Canada), and musicians Yacou Mbaye (Senegal), Maharshi Raval (India) on Tabla and Byron Mark (Australia).

Jamestown Collective reinvents global rhythms with dynamic visuals of Ghanaian villagescapes and song. Free Sydney Opera House On Demand Youtube Recording Primary Secondary HSIE Society and Culture Select Sub Strand Creative Arts Drama Appreciating Creative Arts Music Listening Free One-off Events Harmony Week #sydneyoperahouse #digitalcreativelearning #worldmusic

Storytime – As part of National eSmart Week

Join the eSmart Schools’ team as we read the book Swoosh, Glide and Rule Number 5 by Barbara Uecker and Peter Viska. Year 1 – S1 Year 2 – S1 Year 3 – S2 Storytime – As part of National eSmart Week This story takes us into the Australian bush, to the treetop home of eSafety sugar glider twins Swoosh and Glide as they learn with their family about being safe online.Explore what it means to be a positive digital citizen.Ensure you have time to plan your week and get your students excited for National eSmart Week 2024.Across the week students will be encouraged to explore topics such as:• What you can do and say to be positive online• How algorithms, echo chambers and customised messaging impact our view of the world• How to use technology purposefully• How to use your agency to influence change in the online environment Free Alannah & Madeline Foundation Live Event – Scheduled Teams Primary PDHPE Self Management Skills Healthy, Safe and Active Lifestyles PDHPE Interpersonal Skills Health, Wellbeing and Relationships Special Event Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free One-off Events Wellbeing National eSmart Week #eSmartWeek

Friendship and Fun with Eddie’s Lil’ Homies

Join the ACTF, ACMI and AFL legend Eddie Betts to learn about characters in the new children’s series Eddie’s Lil’ Homies. Students will apply their learning in a character design exercise. Kinder – ES1 Year 1 – S1 Year 2 – S1 Friendship and Fun with Eddie’s Lil’ Homies Eddie Betts is a former AFL player, media personality and author. Inspired by Eddie’s popular book series, Eddie’s Lil’ Homies is a new animated children’s TV series by the same name.

In this virtual workshop, students in Foundation to Year 2 will meet the characters in Eddie’s Lil’ Homies and learn how they navigate the fun and challenges of friendship. Each character brings unique skills and perspectives to the playground: embracing and respecting these differences makes the gang stronger! Eddie will discuss the characters and what we can learn from their interactions.

Students will apply their learning by designing a fictional character based on their qualities and skills. Follow-up activities for the classroom will also be provided to teachers. Free ACMI Australian Children’s Television Foundation UPDATE HERE Over a career of 40 years, Nadia Wheatley has published a number of award-wining works of fiction, history and biography. Her most recent books are the memoir Her Mother’s Daughter, winner of the 2019 Waverley Nib Award, and Radicals — Remembering the Sixties, co-written with Meredith Burgmann.
In 2014 the University of Sydney awarded Nadia an Honorary Doctorate of Letters, in recognition of ‘her exceptional creative achievements in the field of children’s and adult literature, her work as an historian and her contribution to our understanding of Indigenous issues, cultural diversity, equity and social justice and the environment through story’. Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary English Making meaning through responding and composing Reading and Viewing Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free One-off Events OzKidsTV

P is for Portrait

Sign up for a fun-filled, curriculum-based program live from your National Portrait Gallery!  

IMAGE: Me 1992 Ken Done © Ken Done #NPGDART Kinder – ES1 Year 1 – S1 Year 2 – S1 P is for Portrait Visual Arts | Foundation – Year 2

Our Visual Art program for Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 allows students to explore the concept of and ideas surrounding portraiture. They’ll have the chance to experiment with different materials and techniques, respond to and learn from contemporary and historic portraits, and consider why people make art in the first place! 

Key curriculum links: 

Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists [ACAVAM106] 
Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks [ACAVAM107] 
Respond to visual artworks and consider where and why people make visual artworks, starting with visual artworks from Australia, including visual artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples [ACAVAM109] 

Please ensure each student has access to paper and pencils for the drawing activity. Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Creative Arts Visual Arts Appreciating Creative Arts Visual Arts Making Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Free One-off Events STEM/STEAM Australian Women’s History Month

Camouflage

This Virtual Highlight Tour will be delivered using Zoom. Year 11 – S6 Year 12 – S6 TAFE Students Teacher Parent Camouflage Did you know ‘Technical Director of Camouflage’ used to be a job title?Let’s hold a paint brush up to three war artists from our collection who used paint to solve the challenges of concealment and visual deception at war.IMAGE: William Dakin, c. 1943 Gervaise Purcell Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Secondary Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free One-off Events STEM/STEAM Teacher Professional Development #portraitau #VHT

Women in Focus: Know My Name

Join us online for International Women’s Day
How well do you know Australian women artists? Join us for a live interactive webinar on International Women’s Day and engage with the diversity and creativity of their work. Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Year 7 – S4 Year 8 – S4 Women in Focus: Know My Name Focus on four works of art by Australian women artists and respond to provocations that invite conversation about gender equity and unseen perspectives on Australia’s cultural life.
The Know My Name exhibition and associated projects are part of the Gallery’s mission to address historical gender bias and reconsider the many stories of Australian art through the lens of women’s practices.
Don’t miss this chance to learn more about the women who have shaped and transformed Australian art. Register your class now and get ready to know their names.
Ponch Hawkes, Mrs Mimi Torsh and her daughter Dany, 1976, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra Free National Gallery of Australia Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Secondary Creative Arts Visual Arts Appreciating Creative Arts Photographic and Digital Media Select Sub Strand Creative Arts Visual Arts Making Free One-off Events Australian Women’s History Month International Women’s Day

First Nations Changemakers

Through the lens of the Visual Arts curriculum, students will explore portraits of and by First Nations people in the National Portrait Collection. 

IMAGE: Marcia Langton, 2009 by Brook Andrew and Trent Walker (printer) © Brook Andrew #NPGDART Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 First Nations Changemakers First Nations | Year 3 – 6 

This program identifies significant events and ideas in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, through key individuals who have shaped the political and cultural developments involved. 

Key curriculum links: 

Explore ideas and artworks from different cultures and times, including artwork by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to use as inspiration for their own representations [ACAVAM110] 
Explore ideas and practices used by artists, including practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to represent different views, beliefs and opinions [ACAVAM114] 
Explain how visual arts conventions communicate meaning by comparing artworks from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks [ACAVAR117] 

Please ensure each student has access to paper and pencils for the drawing activity. Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Aboriginal Culture and History Select Strand Select Sub Strand Creative Arts Visual Arts Appreciating Creative Arts Visual Arts Making Free One-off Events STEM/STEAM Australian Women’s History Month

Making a Music Video: with Motion Capture – Interactive Workshop 7th March ’24 12.15pm session

Fusing technology & movement, students will develop their visual storytelling skills and collaborate with a live artist to create a movement-based animation. Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Making a Music Video: with Motion Capture – Interactive Workshop 7th March ’24 12.15pm session The team are all here at the Sydney Opera House to create a new music video, but there’s one key role missing….the choreographer! Luckily our students have shown up online to take on this important role.
With the help of the motion capture performers, the students are guided through making the artistic decisions to create a music video. They will engage in movement activities to uncover the story they want to tell and decide how they can capture that story through visual storytelling.
Students will be introduced to all the key people in their team. They will experience how to create a dance piece, both from a production and creative perspective.
At the end, we’ll capture your best moves, fusing our technology with your creativity. But will the music video sink or soar? The creative team will decide!
For the best experience we recommend no more than 30 students per booking
Please register for a second/third group if you have over 30 students or email us at Free Sydney Opera House Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary ST3-11DI-T, GTLS-3, GTLS-3, LS4.1, LS5.2, LS5.3, DRAS3.2, DAS3.2, DAS3.3, EN4-1A, EN4-2A, ENLS-1A, ENLS-16D, ENLS-17E, LS.1, LS.4, LS.8 Science and Tech Working Scientifically and Design and Production Digital Technologies Creative Arts Dance Performing English Making meaning through responding and composing Speaking and Listening Free One-off Events STEM/STEAM #sydneyoperahouse #digitalcreativelearning #motioncapture

Making a Music Video: with Motion Capture – Interactive Workshop 7th March ’24 11am Home School session

Fusing technology & movement, students will develop their visual storytelling skills and collaborate with a live artist to create a movement-based animation. Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Making a Music Video: with Motion Capture – Interactive Workshop 7th March ’24 11am Home School session The team are all here at the Sydney Opera House to create a new music video, but there’s one key role missing….the choreographer! Luckily our students have shown up online to take on this important role.
With the help of the motion capture performers, the students are guided through making the artistic decisions to create a music video. They will engage in movement activities to uncover the story they want to tell and decide how they can capture that story through visual storytelling.
Students will be introduced to all the key people in their team. They will experience how to create a dance piece, both from a production and creative perspective.
At the end, we’ll capture your best moves, fusing our technology with your creativity. But will the music video sink or soar? The creative team will decide!
For the best experience we recommend no more than 30 students per booking
Please register for a second/third group if you have over 30 students or email us at Free Sydney Opera House Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary ST3-11DI-T, GTLS-3, GTLS-3, LS4.1, LS5.2, LS5.3, DRAS3.2, DAS3.2, DAS3.3, EN4-1A, EN4-2A, ENLS-1A, ENLS-16D, ENLS-17E, LS.1, LS.4, LS.8 Science and Tech Working Scientifically and Design and Production Digital Technologies Creative Arts Dance Performing English Making meaning through responding and composing Speaking and Listening Free One-off Events STEM/STEAM #sydneyoperahouse #digitalcreativelearning #motioncapture

SeaWeek 2024: Where the rivers meet the sea

Recognise SeaWeek 2024 with this exploration of the interactions between the land and sea. Year 2 – S1 Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Year 7 – S4 Year 8 – S4 SeaWeek 2024: Where the rivers meet the sea Eighty-five percent of Australians live within 50km of the coast. This session looks at the waste that washes downstream in our catchments, the impacts it has on our estuaries, wetlands and coastal areas where the rivers meets the sea.

In this program students will:

understand the different journey water takes through a catchment
learn how waste can enter the waterways
discover the impacts of waste on estuaries, wetlands and the coastal habitats
appreciate that what happens on land can impact our rivers and oceans.

Find out what you can do to protect our coasts and marvellous marine life.

Presenter: Australian Environmental Education Free Virtual Excursions Australia Australian Environmental Education Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Secondary Science and Tech Living World 7-10 Select Sub Strand Science and Tech Earth and Environmental Science Select Sub Strand HSIE Geography Select Sub Strand Environment Free One-off Events STEM/STEAM Sea Week #SeaWeek #marinelife #sustainability

Online professional learning: Changes over time using satellite imagery

Join us for an afternoon of exploring real geoscience data and come away with ideas and activities for classroom use. Teacher Online professional learning: Changes over time using satellite imagery As humans that live on the Earth’s surface, we cause change when we build cities and infrastructure, grow crops and use resources. Satellite imagery is a primary tool for observation and analysis of these changes.

This online teacher professional learning session will explore how you can access and use historical satellite data to observe changes to the Earth’s natural and man-made surface features and provide you with some classroom-ready activities. The content will support the delivery of many parts of the geography curriculum as well as science. Free Geoscience Australia Live Event – Scheduled Teams Secondary Science and Tech Earth and Environmental Science Select Sub Strand Science and Tech Earth and Space 7-10 Select Sub Strand Professional Development Select Strand Select Sub Strand Environment Free One-off Events STEM/STEAM Teacher Professional Development

Writing the Project: History Extension Seminar

Join us in 2024 for a NEW seminar that is a follow-up to our successful History Extension 2023 event – but this time, we will be focusing on writing the project. Year 11 – S6 Year 12 – S6 Writing the Project: History Extension Seminar This interactive online seminar will be presented by Museums of History NSW and the State Library of NSW and will focus on two areas over 90 minutes.

Jonathon Dallimore will help students to whittle down the scope of their research question and Sally Johnstone will provide advice and show examples of what makes an engaging and accurate piece of writing. Museums of History NSW (Sydney Living Museums) State Library NSW Sally Johnstone is an experienced teacher of Ancient History, Modern History and History Extension. She is currently working as a Pedagogy Coach at St Luke’s Catholic College. Over the last five years, Sally has presented at a number of professional development courses and she has delivered lectures to HSC students.

Jonathon Dallimore is currently working as the Executive Officer (Professional Services) for the History Teachers’ Association of NSW. He is the author of various HSC History texts including Russia and the USSR, 1917 – 41 (HTA NSW, 2020), Conflict in Indochina (Cengage, 2018) and a contributor to the History Extension Resource Book 2nd Ed. (HTA NSW, 2020). Jonathon was a recipient of a NSW Premier’s Scholarship (2016) which took him to Russia for the centenary of the Russian Revolution and an Andrew Dennis Scholarship (UNSW, 2017) which took him to complete fieldwork on the former Thai-Burma Railway. He currently teaches History Methods at the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong. Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Secondary HSIE History Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand One-off Events

Making a Music Video: with Motion Capture – Interactive Workshop 6th March ’24 2pm session

Fusing technology & movement, students will develop their visual storytelling skills and collaborate with a live artist to create a movement-based animation. Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Making a Music Video: with Motion Capture – Interactive Workshop 6th March ’24 2pm session The team are all here at the Sydney Opera House to create a new music video, but there’s one key role missing….the choreographer! Luckily our students have shown up online to take on this important role.
With the help of the motion capture performers, the students are guided through making the artistic decisions to create a music video. They will engage in movement activities to uncover the story they want to tell and decide how they can capture that story through visual storytelling.
Students will be introduced to all the key people in their team. They will experience how to create a dance piece, both from a production and creative perspective.
At the end, we’ll capture your best moves, fusing our technology with your creativity. But will the music video sink or soar? The creative team will decide!
For the best experience we recommend no more than 30 students per booking
Please register for a second/third group if you have over 30 students or email us at Free Sydney Opera House Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary ST3-11DI-T, GTLS-3, GTLS-3, LS4.1, LS5.2, LS5.3, DRAS3.2, DAS3.2, DAS3.3, EN4-1A, EN4-2A, ENLS-1A, ENLS-16D, ENLS-17E, LS.1, LS.4, LS.8 Science and Tech Working Scientifically and Design and Production Digital Technologies Creative Arts Dance Performing English Making meaning through responding and composing Speaking and Listening Free One-off Events STEM/STEAM #sydneyoperahouse #digitalcreativelearning #motioncapture

SeaWeek 2024: Deep Blue Oceans

Dive into the science of the sea during SeaWeek 2024 and explore our amazing marine environments. Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Year 7 – S4 Year 8 – S4 SeaWeek 2024: Deep Blue Oceans Dive into the science of the Deep sea during SeaWeek 2024. Explore the physical factors that determine life underwater and along our coastlines.

Learn about what drives ocean acidification and its effect on coral.
 How do heat and salt drive our ocean currents?
How does pressure change underwater and what does this mean for marine life as well as scuba divers?
Why do light wavelengths & intensity change as you go deeper and what does this mean for organisms?
How do whales and dolphins use echolocation to locate prey?
Which technologies are being used in current ocean research?

Learn about our oceans to find out how you can protect our coasts!

Presenter: Fizzics Education Free Fizzics Education Virtual Excursions Australia Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Secondary Science and Tech Living World 7-10 Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Environment Free One-off Events STEM/STEAM Sea Week #SeaWeek #marinelife #sustainability

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