Primary School Year 3 to Year 6: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm 

Program: Special Invention Fridays – Bio Domes Engineering: I am in the natural world…I am exploring! 

Daily Program

Description

We have a very special Invention Friday session lined up for you… learn how to build your own ecosystem in a bottle. A bio-dome! 

First, we will discover how living things (plants and animals) and organisms (some so tiny you can’t see) interact with non-living things such as soil, water, and sunlight. Next, we will learn about ecosystems to understand how together, all of these things interact with one another to create a life system. Afterward, we’ll explore the rainforest to look around and see how everything in this environment is connected in some way. And if that is not exciting enough, you will be given the materials to make your very own ecosystem to take home. You can then keep a log and record every day what happens inside your miniature bottled world. 

Predict, Explore, Investigate and Think like an Ecologist for a day to: identify living and non-living things; the plants and animals that live and interact in a rainforest; learn what an ecosystem is, and make your very own biosphere to take home. 

Enjoy discovering science in the natural world!