Science Week with Matt Cosgrove
Curriculum Links:
Years:
Kindergarten-6
Digital experience
Cost
Free
Date: Wednesday 13 August
Time: 10am – 10:45am
Celebrate National Science Week with a special digital event with author and illustrator, Matt Cosgrove. Join Matt as he reads his new picture book, Alpacas in Space.
Students will engage in a live drawing activity to create their own picture book featuring an out-of-this-world character and plant, and have the opportunity to ask Matt about being a published author.
This collaborative event brings together Plants for Space, Matt Cosgrove and the MoAD Learning team to inspire students' thinking and creativity.
About Matt Cosgrove
Matt Cosgrove is an author and illustrator of children's books who lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and two children. He has so many fantastic books including Macca the Alpaca, Dharma the Llama and the Worst Week Ever! series. He spends his days writing and drawing and loves making kids laugh. Matt has lots of great activity sheets and printables available on his website.
ARC Centre of Excellent in Plants for Space
The ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space (P4S) is developing technologies to enable humans to survive and thrive in space, reducing the dependence on constant resupply, and using this lens to transform the sustainability of food and bioresource production on Earth. Find out more here.
Key information
We will send you a Zoom link upon registration.
45 minutes.
Suitable for large groups and multiple classes in the same session.
Please email digitalexcursions@moadoph.gov.au or call 02 6270 8222 with any questions.
This event will be recorded and made available to those who register for two weeks after the live session.
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