Teachers' Big Days Out

🌍 Calling all educators! Bring your class to fun-tastic World Environment Day activities in Adelaide Botanic Garden on Tuesday 7 June!

We've almost sold out, but still have two spaces available for Foundation to Year 2 classes.

Activities include:
🥕 Seed planting in the Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden
🎶 Plants as musical instruments
🔎 These Curious Things with Professor Flint from Heaps Good Productions
🌿 Sensory Trail

Find out more and book your spot here: https://bit.ly/ABGWED22

Attention history and HASS teachers!!

Discover how works of art can be powerful tools in understanding Australia’s history with our full day workshop in July - ‘Thinking Critically: History and Art’.

This workshop will include:

• Collection tour with Assistant Director, Artistic Programs, Dr. Lisa Slade.
• Presentation by Mirning artist and academic Ali Baker.
• Performance tour with Michael Mills as John Russell, one of Australia’s most interesting, and yet little-known artist.
• A hands-on session, providing you an opportunity to apply what you have learnt and develop alternative art and history lessons.

Highly recommended for visual arts and history teachers.

Friday 9 July
9am – 4pm
Book now https://bit.ly/3zpHQh1

Image: Ali Gumillya Baker, Mirning people, South Australia, born 1975, Rose Park, South Australia, Sovereign Fleet (red) Faye Rosas Blanch (performer), 2013, Adelaide; printed 2016 at Atkins Photo Lab, Adelaide, inkjet pigment print on paper, 147.5 x 106.5 cm (framed); Gift of the artist 2018, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © Ali Gumillya Baker (the artist), photo: DENYS FINNEY VISUAL MEDIA.

Just one week until we run another teacher professional learning tour of Adelaide Festival Centre Workshop!

Internationally renowned as one of the leading construction facilities in the Southern Hemisphere, our workshop specialises in creative solutions for the theatrical and entertainment industries. The workshop has been in operation for over 40 years, and now the doors are open! During this professional learning event you will get to see first-hand the services the workshop provide and will have the opportunity to hear from the team of scenery and design experts.

Join us this Tuesday 13 April, 10am-12pm
$20 per teacher (includes AITSL aligned PL certificate).

Book Now: https://form.jotform.com/210948153961056

𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀! Are you interested in FREE Professional Learning workshops?

We're offering workshops across the state that support DreamBig Children's Festival, and there are 3 different sessions to choose from:

1️⃣ Drama: Curiosity box / Space-iosity
2️⃣ Media Arts: Chroma key critters: Animation and screen trickery
3️⃣ Dance: Dancing our landscape

The workshops are suitable for teachers of primary, special needs and secondary students. They're FREE for government school teachers! Here's what a workshop attendee had to say: “I arrived tired: left inspired and energised!”

📅 Here are the workshop locations and dates:
Riverland – Wednesday 17 February
South East/Limestone Coast – Thursday 4 March
Port Lincoln & Surrounds – Thursday 18 March
Adelaide – Monday 12 April
Port Augusta & Port Pirie – Wednesday 28 April
Online Workshop – Wednesday 5 May

ℹ Register now: https://schools.dreambigfestival.com.au/school-resources/professional-learning-workshops/

Bringing our museums to life online: how the History Trust adapted and improved education programs in 2020 Necessity is the mother of invention they say, and this year has seen many new systems, processes and ways of communicating emerge thanks to COVID-19. School education programming is an essential piece of the History Trust of South Australia puzzle and in 2020 the History Trust team adapted to find....

On the back of a successful three days during the Teachers’ Big Days Out in January, the Adelaide Botanic Garden, Art Gallery of South Australia and the South Australian Museum have again collaborated to deliver Empowering Educators: STEM and Sustainability on Friday 3 April.
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Explore Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge and technologies at the South Australian Museum.

Join Tony Kanellos, Curator of the Museum of Economic Botany as he introduces you to works of art which respond to the environmental and social challenges today.

AGSA will blur the lines between, art, science and technology as you participate in a hands-on workshop with James Dodd.
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Book now http://bit.ly/36gERHO
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1. Museum of Economic Botany and detail: Julia Robinson, Australia, 1981, Beatrice, 2019–20, Adelaide, silk, thread, felt, steel, brass, gold-plated copper, foam, cardboard, pins, fixings, dimensions variable; © Julia Robinson/Hugo Michell Gallery. 2. James Dodd, photo: Nat Rogers, 3. Photo Nat Rogers.