Big Thinkers STEM
Exploring Big Ideas Through Play and Discovery
Children are natural scientists - curious, inventive and eager to figure out how things work. Big Thinkers STEM is a hands-on program woven into the Lifelong Learning Curriculum School Readiness Program, giving children aged 3-5 the space to investigate, experiment and think like big thinkers.
Through play-based exploration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, children develop the critical thinking and problem-solving skills that set them up for school and beyond.
What Children Explore
Big Thinkers STEM introduces key concepts through hands-on activities and real-world questions that children find genuinely fascinating. Topics include:
- Natural science - exploring the living world around them
- Weather and seasons - observing patterns and changes in nature
- Physics and motion - discovering how things move, fall, balance and float
- Biology and growth - understanding how plants, animals and people grow and change
Children explore questions like: How do we grow and change? What is weather, and how does it affect us? Why do things roll, bounce or sink?, building curiosity and reasoning with every investigation.
Developed with Southern Cross University
Big Thinkers STEM is developed in partnership with Southern Cross University, ensuring the program is grounded in current research and best practice in early childhood education. It’s delivered by our qualified teachers and experienced educators as part of the weekly curriculum, at no additional cost to families.
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