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Outback School Science Trips | Fizzics Education

Outback School Science Tours

Outback School Science Tours

Outback educational science tours that work

Excursions designed from experience

Join our experienced staff in an unforgettable educational excursion experience that captures minds & enriches lives. Work with real scientists and contribute to their work in an outcome-rich educational experience with a difference.

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Call us on 1300 856 828 for more information on this school science trip

Where does the Outback School Science Tour go?

Walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs!

Join our experienced staff in an unforgettable educational excursion experience that captures minds & enriches lives. Work with real scientists and contribute to their work in an outcome-rich educational experience with a difference.

Length

8 days 7 nights

Begins & ends

Longreach, QLD

Year levels

For years 5 to 10.

Highlights

Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum,
Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways,
QANTAS Founders Museum,
Stockman’s Hall of Fame,
Aquatic Ecology River Cruise,
Astronomy night,
Flora & Fauna survey
Geology fossicking experience & more
All guided by our experienced science teachers with behind the scenes access!

Dates

From May to September each year

Price valid until

For bookings taken up to April each year

Free Teacher

With every 10 paying participants

Plus!

Our education staff will fly to your school anywhere in Australia and guide you and your students from your school doorstep all the way to the tour and all the way back again!

Can Fizzics Education organise transport to Longreach for school?
  • Yes we can. Let us know what your preferred method of transport and Fizzics Education can do the rest.
Can my school organise it’s own transport arrangements?
  • Of course! But Fizzics Education needs to be advised.

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What is included in the outback school tour?

  • Escort by our staff to and from your school, anywhere in Australia
  • Dedicated support staff from the moment you book
  • All activities as described in the itinerary
  • All labware & safety equipment
  • Full risk assessments
  • Pre-visit & post-visit lesson plans including live connections via video conference
  • Password protected blog & photo site for parent access
  • Membership to Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum for your school
  • Transportation to activities once in Longreach.
  • All breakfasts
  • All lunches
  • All dinners
  • Field guide for each student
  • T-shirt, hat, re-usable water bottle & bag
  • Direct Australian curriculum link report
  • All taxes and levies included
  • Carbon offsetting through Sustainable Travel International (STI) for a carbon-neutral trip
  • Our company is fully insured with $20 million in public liability
  • Complete police checks on staff
  • Sustainable linkages with local businesses in Central QLD
Excursion Fees Exclude
  • Personal expenses (phone, souvenirs, laundry, etc.)
  • Personal travel insurance for transit and your personal items.
  • For more information on insurance please get in touch with us.
  • Airfares and land transport to Longreach can be organised by us as an extra or by you.
Optional extras
  • 747 wing walk at QANTAS Museum

Participate in real fossil digs and prepare ancient specimens at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum in Winton. Learn fossil casting techniques and the realities of conserving our age old heritage in a real prep laboratory.

Discover how powered flight really works at the QANTAS Founders Museum in Longreach

Study the hidden science in the outback tradition, from cracking whips to livestock management in semi-arid environments at the Stockman's Hall of Fame

Learn about landscape & mineral formation in a hands-on geology lab & opal fossicking day

See the sight of a dinosaur stampede at Lark Quarry and learn the science that determined which dinosaurs were involved and what sparked them to run!

Attain ancient knowledge of Australian plants & bush foods in a guided bush walk and botany survey & study workshop.

Determine water quality and its' impacts on the local environment & community in a field lab run on a river cruise.

Look to the heavens in an unforgettable astronomy evening out on the 'Jump Up'

Explore our cultural heritage making damper and camping out under the stars

Australian ACARA Content Outcomes: Science

  • Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment (ACSSU043)
  • The growth and survival of living things are affected by physical conditions of their environment (ACSSU094)
  • Classification helps organise the diverse group of organisms (ACSSU111)
  • Interactions between organisms, including the effects of human activities can be represented by food chains and food webs (ACSSU112)
  • Ecosystems consist of communities of interdependent organisms and abiotic components of the environment; matter and energy flow through these systems (ACSSU176)
  • The theory of evolution by natural selection explains the diversity of living things and is supported by a range of scientific evidence (ACSSU185)
  • Sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks contain minerals and are formed by processes that occur within Earth over a variety of timescales (ACSSU153)
  • The theory of plate tectonics explains global patterns of geological activity and continental movement (ACSSU180)
  • Global systems, including the carbon cycle, rely on interactions involving the biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere (ACSSU189)
  • The Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the sun) (ACSSU078)
  • Predictable phenomena on Earth, including seasons and eclipses, are caused by the relative positions of the sun, Earth and the moon (ACSSU115)
  • Earth’s gravity pulls objects towards the centre of the Earth (ACSSU118)
  • The universe contains features including galaxies, stars and solar systems and the Big Bang theory can be used to explain the origin of the universe (ACSSU188)
  • Advances in science and emerging sciences and technologies can significantly affect people’s lives, including generating new career opportunities (ACSHE195)
  • Advances in scientific understanding often rely on developments in technology and technological advances are often linked to scientific discoveries (ACSHE192).
  • Advances in science and emerging sciences and technologies can significantly affect people’s lives, including generating new career opportunities (ACSHE161)
  • Science understanding influences the development of practices in areas of human activity such as industry, agriculture and marine and terrestrial resource management (ACSHE136)

NSW Science Syllabus Content A student:

  • describes the dynamic nature of models, theories and laws in developing scientific understanding of the Earth and solar system SC4-12ES
  • describes changing ideas about the structure of the Earth and the universe to illustrate how models, theories and laws are refined over time by the scientific community SC5-12ES
  • appreciates the importance of science in their lives and the role of scientific inquiry in increasing understanding of the world around them SC4-1VA & SC5-1VA.
  • explains how advances in scientific understanding of processes that occur within and on the Earth, influence the choices people make about resource use and management SC4-13ES
  • develop knowledge of the Physical World, Earth and Space, Living World and Chemical World, and understanding about the nature, development, use and influence of science SC4-14LW
  • explains how new biological evidence changes people’s understanding of the world SC4-15LW
  • explains how scientific knowledge and global patterns of geological activity ant interactions involving global systems can be used to inform decisions related to contemporary issues SC5-15ES
  • analyses interactions between components and processes within biological systems SC5-14LW
  • explains how biological understanding has advanced through scientific discoveries, technological developments and the needs of society SC5-15LW
  • explains how scientific understanding about energy conservation, transfers and transformations is applied in systems SC5-11PW

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