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kids ideas
Kids Ideas was a program of free ideas activities for four to
eight year olds, because, like everyone else, kids have ideas.
Kids Ideas ran daily with ongoing Kids Ideas activities that
you could drop into. Kids Ideas workshops started
on the hour every hour.
Activities
For the 4 to 8 year olds. Kids Ideas featured a series of continuous
activities for kids to experience innovative and experimental ideas.
A series of interactive spaces focused on engaging the five
senses that are common knowledge and the seven senses identified
by philosopher Rudolf Steiner such as the sense of humour and
the sense of danger. Strictly hands on, kids were able to look,
touch, feel,
smell and listen with activities that were designed to fill their
heads with sensational ideas.
The chill out space, was filled with an a-mazing array of puzzles,
mazes, quizzes, optical illusions - stuff to figure out.
Queensland children's writer, Norelle Oliver, facilitated
a reading where kids could write their own book endings.
Did you know that our planet and the stars is a natural source
of radio waves at audio frequencies? Their songs were part of an
installation involving sound, composition and animation. These
sounds are from Earth and other heavenly bodies recorded at low
frequencies so that humans are able to hear them. Recordings from
NASA astronomical scientists, Dennis Gallagher and Don Kurtz were
transformed into music by a composer and partnered with animations
developed
by Simon Humphries to create an audio-visual space-a-rama.
A receiver at the Marshall Space Flight Center is playing Earth
Songs online so anyone can listen in at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast19jan_1.htm.
Workshops
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
It's a puzzle
The art of puzzles. How many combinations
are there? With puzzleman Jeff Cheyne.
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Other
ways
Artists from the Aboriginal Centre for Performing
Arts used visual arts, movement and music to explore other ways
to get your ideas across. [back
to top]
Rights of robots
Forecast your future with futurist
Sohail Inayatullah. What does the future mean to you? Can we create
that future?
Can we avoid
it? [back to top]
Cool physics
The boiling point of Nitrogen is 195.8
degrees below zero. Very cold! Balloons freeze in seconds. See
just how cool
physics can
be. [back to top]
What does it mean?
What is the meaning of life?
What do we value? Is it all image or are there more important things?
Narelle Arcidiacono
got
kids going on big life questions. [back
to top]
Your stories
Your wild imagination, your best ideas,
your stories collide with stories old and new as told by two spellbinding
story spinners,
Maureen Watson and Phyllis McDuff. [back
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What’s fair?
What work do kids do? Who are
they working for? If kids want money, should they work for it?
The Commission
for Children and Young
People got kids talking about work, pay and what's fair. [back
to top]
The dilly bag
Kakadu plum, lemon myrtle, wattle
seed and dorrigo pepper. Taste, smell, see and touch bush tucker.
Dale Scott got
you going on
ideas about food. [back
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Natural born thinkers
Philosopher Stephen
Law lead a thinking adventure. Where did the universe come from?
Is it art? Is time
travel possible? (this session will suit older kids, 12 and up) [back
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What's in stuff
Put on your lab coat with Theresa
Fyffe and find out what's in stuff. What chemicals combine to create
what? What
are everyday
items made of? [back to
top]
Kids rights
The UN Convention on Rights of the
Child lists 41 things that children around the world are all supposed
to have.
Hosted by the Commission for Children and Young People. [back
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Renewal game
Here is a new suburb with some problems.
Your job was to come up with the solutions, to renew and rebuild
the place.
A community
made by kids with help from Malcolm Price. [back
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Listen a while
Mesmerising story teller Maureen
Watson tells a tale or two. The way she weaves a yarn makes
your imagination
open up! [back to top]
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