All education programs
Year 4 - 6 | Living things are remarkable in their ability to adapt to changing environments. Come and explore some adaptations of our avian friends, or perhaps marine life is more your focus. The choice is yours.
Year 5 - 7 | Explore how our urban environments are constantly undergoing physical change, making conditions for local wild life somewhat unpredictable.
Year 3 - 4 | Delve into the work of the Museum’s scientists and the techniques they use to classify living and non- living things.
Year 4 - 12 | Challenge your students with this part scavenger hunt, part escape room Museum trail!
Year 4 - 6 | Learn about the early encounters and collisions of culture between the Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia and a variety of newcomers.
Year 7 - 12 | Explore the role of the archaeologist and critically examine ethical concerns facing collecting in cultural institutions.
Year PP - 3 | Learn about our prehistoric history, handle fossils, and follow in the footsteps of dinosaurs.
Year 4 - 6 | Travel back billions of years and discover how microscopic organisms changed the conditions for life on Earth forever.
Year 3 - 10 | Discover WA's endangered animals and get students to think critically about species loss from other perspectives.
Year 7- 10 | Explore how entrepreneurs take their passions and turn them into successful businesses.
Year 4 – 6 | Get hands on with robots in this creative, innovative workshop.
Enjoy a facilitated visit of 'To the Moon' and complete a moon rover robotics challenge!
Year 10 - 12 | Torn away from family, culture and Country, Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia not only survived but fought for their right to regain control.
Year 3 - 12 | Explore the galleries, find newsworthy items and create your own front page of The West Australian.
Year 7 - 9 | Find out how Aboriginal peoples have intentionally managed Country to create regrowth and replenishment.
Year 1 - 4 | Explore the origins of meteorites and the connection between cosmic events and the impact they have made of Earth.
Year 7 - 12 | Register for exclusive online access to special National Science Week talks, featuring our collections staff sharing their exciting and innovative work.
Year 5 - 8 | Bring your class to take part in an exciting day of design at Boola Bardip: participate in hands-on, real-world learning activities relating to design forms such as architecture and product design, highlighting the design thinking process.
Year PP - 12 | April-September 2024 | Join us to explore our historical fascination with the moon, showcasing the Museum of the Moon installation created by artist Luke Jerram.
Year PP - 12 | Self-guided exploration of the permanent exhibitions at Boola Bardip allows you and your students to explore at your own pace.
Year 1 - 10 | Enhance your self-guided Museum visit with our self-guided trails.
Year PP – 3 | Take a step back to the ‘cold time’, the Nyitting (Dreaming), and explore the creation of everything.
Tertiary | Introduce your tertiary education group to the extensive collection of objects and stories at WA Museum Boola Bardip
Year 7 - 12 | Join us for guest artist workshops hosted for the Lester Prize Youth Awards, as we encourage the creative talents of young and aspiring artists.
Year 7 - 12 | Join us for guest artist workshops hosted for the Lester Prize Youth Awards, as we encourage the creative talents of young and aspiring artists.
Year PP - 3 | This brand new program for 2024 will explore change through a social and geological lens, as we use Boola Bardip as a case study to explore the concepts of "then and now".
Year 4 – 6 | Engage virtually with stories of first contact based on objects found in the Museum.
Year 4 - 6 | How do humans impact life around us? How do we know? Most importantly, what can we do about it?
Year 9 - 10 | Explore how the World Wars impacted those at home through object and source analysis.
Join Dr Mark to learn what weird and wonderful things we store in glass vials and jars, from scorpions and trapdoor spiders to millipedes and pseudoscorpions.
WA Museum maritime archaeologists are asking this very question through exploring the chemical make-up of glass bottle fragments found on shipwrecks to see if they can help determine where the glass came from.
Explore our 2024 Education Brochure
We are delighted to share the education programs on offer at Boola Bardip during the 2024 school year.
In 2024, we are expanding our already comprehensive facilitated suite of programs to
include ‘Then and Now’ to look at how and why things change over time. We are also expanding the ‘First Contacts’ virtual offering, with pre-and-post activities available for teachers to download and use in class, plus a new professional learning program focused on Exploring Two-way Science.
Bookings are now open for all 2024 dates.
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