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Connections - Virtual Excursions for May 2010

Rural and Distance Education
NSW Department of Education and Training 

Connections Events for May 2010 Free Events Connections offers free Open events regularly.  These are usually of a more informative nature as opposed to highly interactive.  We do try to keep them as interactive as possible, but we also try to make them available to many schools, and it is difficult to deliver both! Please visit our website to view all our free events. Country Access Program - Astro Collie This term, Collie , our adventurous garden gnome is LOST IN SPACE. He has been exploring our Solar System and seems to have lost his way. He needs your help. By finding out as much as possible about the planets and celestial bodies in our Solar System you can help Collie. He will send clues each week to help you determine where he is. You can use this information to plot his course. Can you help him find his way home? Astro Collie's virtual excursions are available on: 12th May 2010 - Astro Collie - Journey Through the Solar System 18th May 2010 - Astro Collie - Weather in Space 25th May 2010 - Astro Collie - Stars and Planets 1st June 2010  - Astro Collie - Space Exploration 8th June 2010  - Astro Collie - Stars and Planets 22 June 2010   - Astro Collie - Careers in the Aerospace Industry Australian Museum You can now view  ALL Australian Muesum events for 2010 at our website. Their events available for May are listed below. Meet the Megafauna Join us for some fascinating insights into Australia’s megafauna. What are the megafauna – are they simply ‘large animals’ or is there more to the story? Meet some of Australia’s megafauna including our biggest and our most vicious predator. See their fossils and compare them with some living relations. This virtual excursion is available on: 17th May 2010 Paleontology Through Puppetry Winny Saurs a life size Muttaburrasaurs dinosaur puppet takes you to her world. Explore the Australian Museum fossil collection, talk to Museum staff and interact with Winny; to find out about her like and dislikes. This virtual excursion is available on: 18th May 2010 25th May 2010 Human Evolution Journey back through time to meet some of our ancestors – including the ‘ape-men’, ‘work men’, Neanderthals and the so-called ‘wise humans’. Find out about the major changes that made us human and use skull features to place our ancestors and ancestral cousins within our evolutionary family tree. This virtual excursion is available on: 19th May 2010 Coming Up - June Dynamic Earth What's In The Box - Dinosaur Puppet Show What's In The Box - Inside The Earth Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Our unique and affordable videoconferences let your students experience the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef without getting wet. Our videoconferences are filmed from within Reef HQ Aquarium, the world’s largest living coral reef aquarium, situated in Townsville, Australia, centre of the magnificent Great Barrier Reef. We can take you into the stunning Coral Reef and exciting Predator exhibits through state of the art videoconferencing technology. What will I see during a Reef Videoconference? a turtle, sharks, sawfish and rays amazingly colourful reef fish living coral in its many stunning shapes and colours some of the Great Barrier Reef’s most precious threatened and protected species … and so much more! Have your questions answered from deep in the tanks from our expert scuba divers who will be linked by microphone within the scuba mask. You can now view  ALL Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority events until July 2010 at our website. Kigluait Educational Adventures Video conferencing to Talkeetna, Alaska. Meet sled dogs, drive a sled and meet the Mushers. Kigluait Educational Adventures offers complete standards-based video conference programs, customizable curriculums, and training via onsite, video conference, and web-based communication tools. The Mushing Series explores the lifestyle of running dogs in Alaska - from racing the Iditarod to keeping your family warm and well fed throughout the long northern winter. There are six separate 1 hour video conference programs in this series. All are supported by Kigluait Curriculum Adventures online Moodle classroom, a daily Kennel Blog, and resource rich Flash Kennels website. You can now view  ALL Kigluait Educational Adventures events until July 2010 at our website. NASA - Space Center Houston NSW teachers and the NASA Space Center education specialists have collaborated to develop education modules and live virtual excursion experiences to the Space Center. These modules and excursions address NSW learning outcomes. You can now view  ALL available NASA Space Center dates until July 2010 at our website. Coming up in June 2010 Fizzics Education - NEW PROVIDER! Fizzics Education offer engaging hands-on experiments and interactive demonstrations designed to improve students understanding and appreciation of science. Our school science workshops have been previously assessed by the NSW Department of Education & Training Performances for Schools Unit. Enrich your curriculum and make your next incursion one to remember! Our science programmes are presented by qualified teachers, science communicators and science undergraduates each with experience in reaching audiences of all ages no matter what the setting . Coming virtual excursions for June include: Chemical Capers Stars and Planets Human Body Weather and Pressure You can now view  ALL Fizzics Educations events for 2010 at our website.