Do you love Science? In this Ongoing Class, learners will explore a different scientist, inventor, engineer or explorer each week in a fun and interactive way. This course aims to provide meaningful learning experiences for young scientist.

Each class will include a range of teaching methods and activities that are designed to engage the learners in both a hands-on and minds-on way. Classes will include experiments, Q&A, quizzes, games, worksheets, songs, videos and much more.  Learners will be encouraged to observe, explore, question and share what they learn. A variety of methods are used to support learners and cater for different learning styles and needs. 

What is taught in this course?

Week of 7/10/24 - Carl Linnaeus (Organising Living Things)
Week of 14/10/24 - Mary Shelley (Robots)
Week of 21/10/24 - Nicholas Appert (Preserving Food)
Week of 28/10/24 - Albert Einstein
Week of 4/11/24 - Orville and Wilbur Wright (Aircraft)
Week of 11/11/24 - Timothy Berners-Lee (World Wide Web)
Week of 18/11/24 - Ada Lovelace (Computer Programming)
Week of 25/11/24 - Archimedes (Float or Sink)
Week of 2/12/24 - Lorenzo Langstroth (Beekeeping)
Week of 9/12/24 - Rosalind Franklin (DNA)
Week of 16/12/2024 - Katherine Johnson (Rockets)
Week of 23/12/2024 - George Washington Carver (Botany)
Week of 30/12/2024 - Charles H. Turner (Invertebrates)
Week of 6/1/2025 - Charles Kao (Fibre optics)
Week of 13/1/2025 - Kusala Rajendran (Seismology)
Week of 20/1/2025 - Mae C. Jemison (Astronauts)
Week of 27/1/2025 - Tu Youyou (Malaria)
Week of 3/2/2025 - Galileo Galilei (The Telescope)
Week of 10/2/2025 - Alexander Graham Bell (The Telephone)
Week of 17/2/25 - Marie Curie (Radium and Radioactivity)
Week of 24/2/25 - Ibn al-Haytham (Light)
Week of 3/3/25 - Alexander Fleming (Penicillin)
Week of 10/3/25 - Amelia Earhart (Air Travel)
Week of 17/3/25 - Robert Falcon Scott (Polar Regions)
Week of 24/3/25 - Mary Anning (Paleontology)
Week of 31/3/25 - William Smith (Strata)
Week of 7/4/25 - Inge Lehmann (The Earth's Core)

Further themes will be added.

Please note, this course can be taken in additional to the Ongoing Science and Geography classes. Although some themes may look similar, material, classes and learning objectives are different.