The Discovery Voyager is UNE’s new Science outreach and engagement program, delivering interactive, curriculum-aligned activities in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Maths) to schools in northern NSW. They offer activities in ecology, physics, chemistry, Latin/biology, precision agriculture, sports science, palaeontology, and natural history based on our collections showcased in the UNE Natural History Museum.
United Publishers of Armidale
Armidale-based children’s book publishers, Christmas Press and Little Pink Dog Books, are delighted to announce a brand-new joint initiative, United Publishers of Armidale, with the launch of a new website, www.unitedpublishersofarmidale.net, and associated social media on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
The United Publishers of Armidale website features a number of books from each publisher, with free activities and resources to go with each, as well as information on each title. Activities and resources include audio and video presentations by creators, puzzles, quizzes, word searches, printable colouring pages, teachers’ notes, and more. The Featured Books page will be updated regularly with new, upcoming and backlist titles and their associated activities, while the About page gives information about the UPA partner publishers.
Launching Fox and Chook Creative Activity Pack for families, schools and libraries
The Fox and Chook Creative Activity Pack , themed around, you guessed it, foxes and chooks (for non-Australians, that means chickens!)
This brand-new gorgeous pack includes lots of fun activities: from lots of creative writing exercises to colouring-in pages; from looking at and discussing classic paintings to discovering fabulous facts about foxes and chooks; from listening online to a fun fox and chook story(one of mine) to sculpting your own fox and chook out of modelling clay, from sharing real-life stories of foxes and chooks to learning how to draw them and to make your own shadow puppets–and more!
You can access the full activity pack as a downloadable PDF here: Fox and chook creative activity pack by Sophie Masson and Kathy Creamer full final
Plus the colouring pages as a separate PDF to download and print out easily: Fox and Chook Colouring Pages by Kathy Creamer, to print out
Tamworth Regional Gallery
To explore all Tamworth Regional Gallery current digital workshops subscribe to the Gallery’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkBIxX40wvaMe2oEeymIuaw
Arts North West Creative Campaign
In 2015, Arts North West started a Creative Campaign as an an opportunity for you all to unleash your creative power by participating in a very low key creative challenge. While we all practice social distancing and stay home, we hope some of our activities listed below provide a welcomed distraction from the uncertainty of the current climate. Send through your completed challenges to media@artsnw.com.au and we will upload to our social media pages, bringing some good news to our social media feeds.
WHY CREATIVITY?
Creativity is the driving force behind innovation
Creativity improves the process of solving problems.
Creativity leads to exploration, to outside the box thinking and to increasing productivity
Creativity can drive progress
Creativity can be a great de-stresser
Creativity is a way of thinking that allows you to see possibilities.
Creativity is at the heart of every scientific discovery, engineering invention, business breakthrough, and artistic innovation.
Experiment and have some fun! Be inspired, develop your imagination, and build your inventiveness.
CHALLENGES
August 2016
June 2016
May 2016
April 2016
March 2016
February 2016
January 2016
December 2015 (Christmas themed)
November 2015
October 2015
September 2015