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

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.