STEM Hour bundles
Enjoy our successful 2021/22 webinars at a discounted price
Together with our incredible panellists, we managed to squeeze an abundance of STEM topics into our 2021/22 webinars. We’re now giving you the opportunity to treat yourself or your team members to a bundle of your favourite STEM Hour recordings. Select a bundle, or just one recording, choose your favourite topic and receive the webinars via email within five business days.
+ More than counting: Maths in early childhood education
Mathematical concepts are everywhere around us, from sharing a pizza to spotting patterns in a musical composition. In this webinar, our panel helps you broaden your mathematical horizon, evaluate your own relationship with maths and provides you with a hands-on approach for fostering children’s mathematical thinking.
+ Engineering for a sustainable future
In this webinar, our panel discusses how children’s imaginations can be funnelled into hands-on engineering projects that aim to provide solutions for real-life environmental problems and creating a more sustainable future. Your children are worried about the ocean’s wildlife being exposed to plastic pollution? Can they invent an ocean cleaning machine?
+ Indigenous perspective on sustainability
Using only the resources needed for sustenance is fundamental to First Nations peoples’ way of life. As all living beings are connected to each other and to Country, one cannot thrive without the other. Our panellists share Indigenous perspectives on caring for Country and how we can raise environmentally conscious children
+ Fostering inclusive environments through STEM
Inclusive early childhood settings provide the best start to life for all children, and inquiry-based practices are beneficial for addressing all children’s individual needs. Our panel provides ideas for cultivating an inclusive environment through inquiry-based STEM learning and how to cater to children’s diverse needs while fostering individual skills and abilities.
+ Growth mindsets through STEM
Researcher Fiona Boylan and practitioner Cayley Boylan provide thought-provoking ideas on how to support the development of a growth mindset. Our panel discusses how you can support children in developing the skills to transition to school and lead a fulfilled life as well as the role of STEM inquiry in this.
+ Meaningful documentation
Reggio Emilia and inquiry-based approaches value children as capable individuals and use documentation to find out what children know and can do. Kirsty Liljegren talks about the transformative effects of meaningful documentation on children’s learning, and your ability to plan, scaffold and reflect. She also gives tips for putting these strategies into practice.
+ Nature play
Join a panel of nature play and bush kindy experts for hands-on ideas on how to integrate authentic experiences in nature into any early childhood setting. Our panel will share how your children can connect with their natural environment while making their own choices, cultivating their curiosity and expanding independent thinking.
+ STEM leaders in early childhood
Going back to the roots of inquiry-based STEM practices, this webinar focuses on educators’ individual STEM journeys and showcases how inquiry-based practices transformed their thinking about STEM learning. Our panel shares how everyone can become a STEM advocate, regardless of their level of knowledge and previous experiences.
+ Integrating Indigenous perspectives
This webinar focuses on embedding Indigenous perspectives into education and care settings. Michelle Hamilton from Gowrie NSW, a proud Wiradjuri woman with over 30 years of experience in early childhood education, shares how to develop cultural competence and foster a sense of belonging for Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and families.
+ Education for sustainability: Children’s rights and responsibilities
Are we teaching our children to express themselves and to participate as active citizens? Sara Judge, First Nations content producer at the Australian Museum, Dr Jennifer Matthews, marine biologist, and Skye Ferber, kinder lead educator, discuss children’s right to actively participate in critical matters such as.
+ Education for sustainability: Tackling climate change with children
Our children will have to deal with the effects of climate change and the least we can do is prepare them for the tough job ahead. Dr. Jessica Allen, chemical engineer, Dr. Sue Elliott, senior lecturer in early childhood education, Sue Motley, community preschool director, and Dr. Lucy Richardson, climate communications researcher, discuss age-appropriate ways to explore the effects of climate change.
+ Women in space – Female STEM role models
Women are underrepresented in STEM and in space. Dr Christa Spears Brown, developmental psychologist, Shefin Mariya Joju, aerospace engineering student, Dr Clare Kenyon, astrophysicist, Dr Sabine Bellstedt, astronomer, and Hayley Drennan, early childhood teacher, talk about what we can do to prevent the development of gender bias in young children.
+ Our animals are in danger! Protect our wildlife
Dr David Taggart, associate professor of wildlife biology and conservation, Elly Hampton, early childhood educator, Kylie Soanes, conservation biologist, Rachel Iglesias, veterinary officer, and Erin Hahn, postdoctoral research fellow at CSIRO, share why our fauna is in danger and what we, our children and the entire Australian society can and must do to protect our wildlife.
+ Food for thought – philosophical inquiry with children
“Why is it ok to eat cows but not whales?” Clarissa Seeto-Regueira, centre director, Benjamin Kilby, teacher and philosopher, and Jessica Danaher, dietitian and researcher, discuss how philosophical inquiry can be implemented in early childhood education and share ideas for critical reflection on the food we eat.
+ Exploring Bush Tucker
Dharawal Elder Aunty May, Scott Pullyblank, curator of life sciences, Damian Stirling, environmental educator, and Louise Reid, family daycare educator, share ideas on how to include native plants in inquiry-based STEM learning in early childhood settings.
+ Enriching early childhood with Indigenous knowledge
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures have collected an abundance of complex STEM knowledge and play an essential role in addressing the biggest scientific questions of today, such as climate change. Dr Michael Donovan from Macquarie University, bio-cultural science educator Torres Webb and engineer Grant Maher talk about implementing Indigenous STEM knowledge into early childhood settings.
+ Bee kind. Learning about bees in early childhood
Celebrating these fascinating and useful creatures, Kelly Lees from the NSW Department of Primary Industries shares astonishing facts about bees, primary school teacher Vanessa Ryan-Rendall introduces her children’s book Bee Detectives and educators Claudia Brewin and Emilia Borrillo speak about their school’s award-winning project ‘The wonder of bees’.
+ Citizen Science in early childhood education
Children can conduct scientific research just like adult scientists. Erin Roger from the Australian Citizen Science Association, Nadiah Roslan from the Australian Museum and environmental educator Maria Dunne provide us with hands-on ideas for citizen science projects suitable for our age group.
+ Big blue planet - our oceans & our unique home
This special Sea Week STEM Hour discusses how to introduce marine sciences in the early years and explore the topic of this year's Sea Week: how all of earth’s living systems are connected to the oceans.
Discover the range of ways to help children celebrate the sea (no matter where they live) and practical ideas for how to implement STEM and ocean literacy learning in your classroom.
+ Supporting neurodivergent learners through STEM inquiry
Children with autism, ADHD, and other learning disabilities are often left behind when it comes to STEM learning. This session features neurodiversity advocate and experienced STEM educator Dr Lorien Parker, aka Dr Loz, who shares her expertise about how to create inclusive and accessible STEM learning environments for all.
