The show includes immersive full dome 360 degree images of dinosaurs. Our giant 360 degree projector is used to walk through a dinosaur landscape.

The show starts with time travel back to the Jurassic times and pictures of early earth landscapes. The programme then gives an interactive introduction to dinosaurs and talks about the fossils in the local Jurassic coast. 

Real dinosaur fossils for the children to hold and examine are included.

The show ends with possible ways of dinosaur extinction such as a large meteorite. We then look at the stars using the planetarium. We observe many shooting stars and the night's sky.

An extensive Rocks and Fossils collection is available to examine and some sample can be purchase by the children, if desired. Makes a great day suitable for reception onwards and can include KS1/KS2 materials with rocks and soils.

We will travel into space and learn about the stars, planets, the sun, the moon, astronauts and rockets! 

The show includes immersive full dome 360 degree images of dinosaurs. Our giant 360 degree projector is used to walk through a dinosaur landscape.

The show starts with time travel back to the Jurassic times and pictures of early earth landscapes. The programme then gives an interactive introduction to dinosaurs and talks about the fossils in the local Jurassic coast. 

Real dinosaur fossils for the children to hold and examine are included.

The show ends with possible ways of dinosaur extinction such as a large meteorite. We then look at the stars using the planetarium. We observe many shooting stars and the night's sky.

An extensive Rocks and Fossils collection is available to examine and some sample can be purchase by the children, if desired. Makes a great day suitable for reception onwards and can include KS1/KS2 materials with rocks and soils.

Explore all of the stages of the rock cycle, learn about soils and fossils and get the opportunity to hold, examine and touch real fossils. 

Fossils are found in sedimentary rocks and provide evidence that different life existed in the past. Rocks and Soils are used for many purposes and we'll explore some of them. 

We'll dive into: 

- The planets

- Small bodies: asteroids, comets, meteoroids and
  dwarf planets. 

We will dive into a space exploration with our focus on Jupiter, Saturn, the moon and Apollo Moon missions.

• The Earth, Moon and Sun.
• Gravity
• Day/Night
• Seasons and Space
• Exploration of the Moon
• And much more!

• What is light and its properties. 
• Light in space. 
• Reflection VS Refraction.
• Opacity, translucency and transparency.
• And much more! 

Some of the questions we'll dive into: 

-How the eye works and shows us different
 colours. 

-The rainbow. 

-Why do we have daytime and night-time? 

-How do we know so much about the stars? 

-Why do the stars have different colours and
 brightness?      

How your ear drums work to hear sound? What sound looks like, how your eyes work to capture the light and how images are created?

Deep into light and sound with us in this interactive and immersive session.

Explore and learn how sound and light travel. Get to ‘see’ sound in many different ways. Learn about rainbow and colours; refraction and reflection and much more. We’ll use examples from solar system with the moon and sun in 3D.

We travel the constellations of the autumn sky and the ancient Greek myths after which they were named. A mixture of mythological stories together with real science in the sky and space. The constellations are used in science as a map to the sky allowing the location of black holes, alien solar systems and star clusters and galaxies to be explored.

Covering climate, ocean currents, ocean life and the changing world.

An immersive fulldome program that explores the inner workings of Earth’s climate engine. With visualizations based on satellite monitoring data and advanced supercomputer simulations, this cutting-edge production follows a trail of energy that flows from the Sun into the interlocking systems that shape our climate: the atmosphere, oceans, and the biosphere.

Audiences will ride along on swirling ocean and wind currents, dive into the heart of a monster hurricane, come face-to-face with sharks and gigantic whales, and fly into roiling volcanoes. Year 3 to adult age range.

'Introduction to Stargazing' uses all the projectors below to give a star field and tour of the night's sky. 

The Science Dome has three star projectors which project a star field on the inner surface of the dome. The purpose is to demonstrate how the sky appears in the night sky and also how to observe various planets and shooting stars.

One star projector is produced using a computer with state of the art Stellarium software. This can also be downloaded and used on a PC desktop. Visit the link below.

http://www.stellarium.org/

The other two projectors use actual film of the real night sky and project a star field accurately with 10,000 stars. The star field moves across the dome also showing shooting stars and the moon.

‘Oasis in Space’ transports the audience on a startling and beautiful voyage through our universe, galaxy and solar system in search of liquid water, a key ingredient for life on Earth. Suitable for Year 5 to adult age range.

The formation of the early universe, star birth and death, collision of giant galaxies and black holes.

Suitable for year 5 to adult.

We will learn about how different habitats (including micro-habitats)  provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.

We will also look into describing and understanding key aspects of: 

Physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.

Human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.

Including elements such as underwater volcanoes, bioluminescence and tides.

Under the Sea: 

We learn that many years ago sailing boats used to follow the stars for navigation. We take a journey on a boat and then go under the sea. We'll listen many stories by sailors about life in the sea, and much more! 

Start journey to the bottom of the sea by a submarine and back again. The planetarium shows the Australian landscape and the Australian stars and refers to the southern cross and compass using the constellations. The Great Barrier reef and other under the sea locations are shown.

Pirates and the Sea: 

'Pirates show with many ship wrecks. Pictures of sailing ships, pirates ships and flags from a 360 degree view. Australian stars and the southern cross and compass will be also covered.

 We have pictures of caves and rocks which can be used for smuggling.

Minibeast: 

We will learn and explore the world of minibeast. Minibeasts are small invertebrates and include arthropods such as spiders, insects, woodlice, centipedes and millipedes, as well as slugs and snails and worms. 

Tropical Reefs:

Learn the secrets of the "rainforests of the sea" as you and your visitors embark on an oceanic safari to the world’s most vibrant — and endangered — marine ecosystems.

Learn about the biology of corals, and how reefs support some of the planet's most complex food webs.

Endangered animals: 

The natural environment.

What are endangered animals?

Why are some species in danger?

• Habitat Loss (Destruction and Fragmentation) 

• Invasive Species 

• Pollution 

• Poaching 

• Overuse

Science: Recognise that the population of some animals/species are in danger of becoming extinct through loss of habitat, decline in food source or persecution for example.

The interdependence of living organisms and food chains. 

How humans affect the local environment.

Geography: Causes and consequences of how places and environments change - Living in my world: caring for places and environments and the importance of being a global citizen.

How can we help prevent the extinction of endangered animals?

We will explore the topic of endangered animals in our 360 degrees mobile planetarium and invite children to reflect on the importance of keeping a balanced ecosystem. From tiny species to the biggest creatures, they all contribute to the equilibrium of nature. 

Ecosystems are groups of plants and animals that are found in the same area and interact with each other bringing a healthy state to the ecosystems when they act in harmony. Each species that is lost triggers the loss of other species within its ecosystem. Plants, animals and all type of micro-organism bring balance to the ecosystem (forests, grasslands, rivers, oceans…) maintaining it healthy. Preserving wildlife helps not only to the ecosystem but also provides cures to deadly diseases, purifies environment (clean air, water and land). Allowing our environment to become contaminated, we risk our own health.

Healthy forests, grasslands, rivers, oceans… are the result of a balanced ecosystem.  

 Adaptation and evolution. In “Natural Selection” we will join Darwin on his voyage with the HMS Beagle to the Galapagos Islands where he was inspired to develop his later theory of transmutation by natural selection. Join us in the thrill of a scientific discovery, the adventure of science and the beauty of nature. 

Start of life on Earth and possible life in the solar system.

We will learn about Earth's ancient history by looking at the planet from space and then showing the pictures of the surface changing through time.

Pupils will learn the following;

• Earth has a different appearance and continents in the past.
• The core and make up of the interior
• Different rocks structures
• Different life and climate through time
• Types of volcanoes and location
• Continental drift and plates
• Earthquake zones and oceans

The award-winning Supervolcanoes looks back at rare classes of eruptions that have marshaled the energy that lurks, like a sleeping dragon, beneath the surface of planet Earth. The program moves beyond Earth to explore the impact of giant volcanic eruptions around our solar system.

Audiences will fly down to Neptune’s frigid moon Triton, and onto the ultimate volcanic world: Jupiter’s moon Io. On a visit to a legendary North American hot spot, Yellowstone National Park, the film asks: can a supervolcano erupt in our time?

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.

A trip into Biodiversity that shrinks you down to the size of an insect and flies you through the eye of a needle. It offers a unique, motivating, didactic and funny approach to living things that has never been seen like this before. 

It includes images of an electron microscope and the latest 3D animation technology showing the five kingdoms of living things. We discover their characteristics, form and their importance for the ecosystems and sustainability. 

Beginning with Ancient times we will explore how cultures throughout the world used stellar mythology to explain their observations of phenomena in the Universe and we will explore the scientific explanations behind these observations.

• Polynesian myth of “the anchor that pulls the sky” (observation of daily motion).
• Mayan myth of the “Jaguar god who takes souls to and from the underworld” (stellar navigation).
• Appearance and disappearance of Inkokua (Pleiades formation) help the Maasai predict the rain (using the stars as a seasonal calendar).

We will explore contributions that cultures have made to the scientific understanding of astronomy including the Egyptians, Arabs, Chinese, and Western culture including Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo, and Herschel. 

Finally, we will explore the future of space exploration as a world-wide collaboration.   Students will understand that they are living in the most exciting time in the history of human understanding of the Universe and that they can play an important role in the understanding of the Universe for future generations.

Living things are interdependent with each other and their environments.  Environments on Earth are products of chemical and geological processes greatly influenced by our place in space.    Could life exist some place other than Earth?  Based on our understanding of life, what conditions would it need in order to survive?

We will compare various bodies within our solar system including Mars; Saturn’s hydro-carbon rich moon Titan; worlds with possible liquid oceans such as Enceladus; and Europa.    Students will begin to understand the scale of our solar system as we talk about how little we actually understand about our closest neighbours in space.   We will then explore the possibility of worlds around other stars, in our galaxy and in the Universe.  As part of our exploration, we will screen the immersive, full-dome Spitz film “Oasis in Space”.

Although we will discuss the possibility of other types of life in the universe, students will gain an understanding of the fragile and special nature of our little world and recognize the importance of sustainability in scientific and technological developments.

The old concept of gravity is, “What goes up, must come down.”  However, in space, there is no “up.”  And, if an object gains enough velocity (on Earth’s surface this is 7 miles per second), it can escape the gravity of another object.  It doesn’t “come down”.

We explore gravity’s role in the formation of stars and solar systems.  Further, we explore how the crush of gravity within stars forms heavier elements out of lighter ones including Carbon, Iron and Oxygen - the actual atoms in our bodies - during supernova explosions. 

Then, we explore gravity to the max.  What happens when the mass and density of an object is so great that its escape velocity is more than the speed of light?  By viewing the immersive, full-dome Spitz film “Black Holes - The Other Side of Infinity” we will explore models of extreme gravity and how scientists are currently investigating this phenomena. 

The show 'Introduction to Stargazing' uses all the projectors below to give a star field and tour of the night's sky. The Science Dome has three star projectors which project a star field on the inner surface of the dome. The purpose is to demonstrate how the sky appears in the night sky and also how to observe various planets and shooting stars.

One star projector is produced using a computer with state of the art Stellarium software. This can also be downloaded and used on a PC desktop. Visit the link below.

http://www.stellarium.org/

The other two projectors use actual film of the real night sky and project a star field accurately with 10,000 stars. The star field moves across the dome also showing shooting stars and the moon.

We'll dive into: 

- The planets

- Small bodies: asteroids, comets, meteoroids and 

   dwarf planets. 

The show includes dinosaur pictures in 3D using 3D glasses (provided) and also real dinosaur fossils to hold and examine. Our giant 180 degree projector is used to walk through a dinosaur landscape.

The show starts with time travel back to the Jurassic times and pictures of early earth landscapes. The programme then gives an interactive introduction to dinosaurs and talks about the fossils in the local Jurassic coast. 

The show ends with possible ways of dinosaur extinction such as a large meteorite. We then look at the stars using the planetarium. We observe many shooting stars and the night's sky.

An extensive Rocks and Fossils collection is available to examine and some sample can be purchase by the children, if desired. Makes a great day suitable for reception onwards and can include KS1/KS2 materials with rocks and soils.

Explore all of the stages of the rock cycle, learn about soils and fossils and get the opportunity to hold, examine and touch real fossils. 

Fossils are found in sedimentary rocks and provide evidence that different life existed in the past. Rocks and Soils are used for many purposes and we'll explore some of them. 

The Fractal Dome is a workshop and dome experience specially designed for schools, to support the learning and development in maths, science and art. With us, students of all ages enjoy the visual adventure of journeying into the infinitely complex world of fractals (endlessly repeating patterns made from simple algebraic equations). 

Our fractal dome programme for schools consists of seven individual full-dome animations created by Dr. Jonathan Wolfe. We support educators with this powerful new tool for teaching maths and related sciences in our dome. A production of the Fractal Foundation which lasts approximately 24 minutes.

We will learn about Earth's ancient history by looking at the planet from space and then showing the pictures of the surface changing through time.

Pupils will learn the following;

• Earth has a different appearance and continents in the past.
• The core and make up of the interior
• Different rocks structures
• Different life and climate through time
• Types of volcanoes and location
• Continental drift and plates
• Earthquake zones and oceans

A trip into Biodiversity that shrinks you down to the size of an insect and flies you through the eye of a needle. It offers a unique, motivating, didactic and funny approach to living things that has never been seen like this before. 

It includes images of an electron microscope and the latest 3D animation technology showing the five kingdoms of living things. We discover their characteristics, form and their importance for the ecosystems and sustainability.