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Science workshop country tours with Fizzics Education

Country tours science workshops with Fizzics Education and Dissection Connection

“As long as we can fit the school workshops in our utes, we can do it!” says Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education.  With 10 years experience in science education he’s had some practice at packing that ute.  And Miss Vivi will be more than happy to chuck an esky full of bits and pieces on the back for you as well.

Don’t think for a minute that your kids have to miss out on first rate science events at school just because you live off the beaten track.  That’s where the Fizzics Education Country Tours program flexes its muscle.

Fizzics Education will mix and match science shows & workshops to suit every situation.  They are flexible with arranging things around your schedule and location, too – they just need to know what you have in mind.

As long as you’ve got them there why not turn it into a school camp!

Pop over and have a look at all the gory bits on their website and while you are there check out the FREE resources they have for teachers.  Book a session and get teacher PD at your school afterwards!

Fizzics Education also currently deliver in-person science workshops into Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast & Sunshine Coast

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Live online web classes with Fizzics Education

Live video conferencing science workshops for schools with Fizzics Education and Dissection Connection

Human Body Video Conference November 2013 from Fizzics Education on Vimeo.

Did you know that our partner Fizzics Education offer live online web classes?  Video conferencing is available for schools across Australia and around the world!

This is a highly cost effective option for remote and regional schools but it’s not a fancy version of the old ‘chalk and talk’.  Students get to run science experiments live during the video conference and teachers are provided with pre-workshop and post-workshop lessons to run.

Your kids will get all the benefit of a professional, interactive science event and with our new overnight satchel delivery option we can get specimens to you just about anywhere in Australia.

Pop over and have a look at all the gory bits on their website and while you are there check out the FREE resources they have for teachers.

Fizzics Education also currently deliver in-person science workshops into Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and also do Regional Visits.

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5 Things I Learned About Preparing Bones For Display

So, I thought it would be a good idea to prep a duck head and feet set to display the bones.  Sounds like a good idea, right?  You can make comparative anatomy displays for the classroom.  Fabulous!

I started with this:

duck head and feet set from Dissection Connection
Duck Head and Feet Set

Threw the lot into a pot and simmered it for about two days. It didn’t smell as bad as I thought it would. Kind of like soup.

5 things I learned about preparing bones for display:

  1. THIS KID is awesome
  2. Take as much of the skin, muscle and viscera off the bones as you can BEFORE you start.  Now I have spent at least an hour picking bits of meat and skin off tiny bones and checking meticulously that I haven’t missed anything.
  3. Put the separate pieces into SOMETHING before you start.  Bags made of old pantyhose would have done the trick.  Now I have no idea which bones belong to the left foot and which to the right foot.
  4. Cleaning bones and laying them out on a tray made me feel just like Temperance “BONES” Brennan – even though I had no idea what I was looking at most of the time.
  5. It was a VERY good idea not to throw the chicken head and feet into the pot at the same time!

As this kid laments, there is next to no info on the web about articulating bird skeletons.  I will definitely post a picture of the finished product with some more tips and tricks for you because you are going to be hard pressed to find it elsewhere.  Stay tuned, Vivsters.

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Mar 28, 2014

 

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Movember, Mo Bros

Mo man, Mo brother-in-law, Mo dad and Mo nephew
Mo man, Mo brother-in-law, Mo dad and Mo nephew

This is the face of men’s health in my life and life just wouldn’t be the same without them.  Throughout November Miss Vivi will be supporting Movember Australia by being a Mo Sista and sporting a moustache on all our sites.

Movember is an annual charity initiative that sees the sprouting of moustaches on guys around the globe during November, in a united movement for men’s health.

Committing their top lip for 30 hairy days these men (known as Mo Bros), effectively become walking, talking billboards and through their Mo growing efforts, raise vital funds and awareness for prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health.

Thanks to the support of over one million Mo Bros and Mo Sistas across 21 countries, Movember is now recognised as one of the world’s leading non-government funders of research and care programs for men’s health issues.

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