Year 10 Camp
Year 10 camp: This camp program is aimed more towards a longer period of investigation by the students.
- Identifying and producing a program to reduce the waste and pollution in the camp ground area.
- Abundance of species in the area, and the effect of the abundance on the biome.
- Metal extraction and mineralogy of the surrounding geology. This depends on the camp ground area, but usually some iron or copper is available for extraction.
- pH and minerals of camp earth, and how it varies from area outside camp ground.
- Measuring the effects of climate change on camp area.
- Resource management in local area.
- Making a monocular - lenses.
- How can we make and cook the best campground pizza?
- Pedal power, can we charge a car battery?
- Sustainability task relevant to camp area.
Year 9 Camp
Year 9 camp: This camp program includes your choice of at least 3 of these activities, all are directly linked to the year 9 science curriculum and relate to camping and the outdoors:
- The chemistry of flares. How to make a flare and how to change the light colour.
- Alkali metals, reactivity.
- Overnight task: How much water can be collected from the air - competition.
- Making a monocular - lenses.
- Making an emergency radio from a torch.
- Making a compass.
- Design and Build a solar cooker.
- Micro-bug survey.
- Measuring the effects of climate change on camp area.
- Sustainability task relevant to camp area.
- Waste and Plastic Pollution.
Year 8 Camp
Year 8 camp: This camp program includes your choice of at least 3 of these activities, all are directly linked to the year 8 science curriculum and relate to camping and the great outdoors:
- Producing a gas and then using it. This also includes liquid nitrogen.
- Building a parachute: How long will it take to descend from 100 m - competition.
- Overnight task: How much water can be collected from the air - competition.
- Challenge: Can we lift a car (using mechanical advantage).
- What is starlight? Chemical make up of starlight, involves production of different coloured flames.
- Water filtration, cleaning dirty water, mixtures and compounds.
- Design and Build a solar cooker.
- Using a quadrat to measure the number of invasive species
- Sustainability task relevant to camp area.
- Waste and Plastic Pollution.
Year 7 Camp
Year 7 camp: This camp program includes your choice of at least 3 of these activities, all are directly linked to the year 7 science curriculum and relate to camping and the great outdoors:
- Light up the camp: Students will build a circuit using a 12 V battery and globes and switches to light up the camp any way they desire.
- Power lights by wind, if there is sufficient wind this is an additional activity to construct wind turbines.
- States of matter – includes bangs from liquid nitrogen and steam.
- Reversible and Irreversible changes: Demonstrations of these changes involving some explosions and very active chemical reactions. Students will make damper culminating in students making ice cream using liquid nitrogen (this is very tasty ice-cream).
- Overnight task: How much water can be collected from the air - competition. 6: Inter-tent communication. Sound waves through string.
- Design and Build a solar cooker.
- Classification of plants and animals around the camp ground.
- Basic plant anatomy.
Primary School Camps
Year 5 or 6 Show: This camp show includes the following activities directly linked to the year 6 science curriculum, and involve a number of quick chemical reactions to really engage your students:
- Making an arc light from a pencil.
- Elephants toothpaste on a large scale.
- States of matter – includes bangs from liquid nitrogen and steam.
- Hydrogen generator, and then a gas test.
- Marshmallow Cannon
- Extracting DNA from strawberries.
