Well known Scottish paleontologist and performer Professor Flint stopped in to meet our digital dinosaurs last week. While he was here, he sung some prehistoric tunes from album Dinosaurs Down Under including Dinosaur Stampede, I want to be a Paleontologist, Rock and Bones and Australovenator. Professor Flint has…
The Cube brings dinosaurs to life this Summer
We are excited to announce that The Cube’s next big thing, Dino Zoo, will be open to the public from 6 January! Visitors will be able to immerse themselves in the zoo, interact with the dinosaurs, and play fun activities on the touch screens. We’ll have five Australian…
Off the Shelf: Reimagining libraries with Watson Road State School students
Earlier this year, The Cube’s public program team undertook the Off The Shelf program, part one of which involved engaging with students from Watson Road State School in a series of workshops centred around the idea of the changing role of libraries as social and educational hubs. Students engaged with these…
Creative Lab: Capturing a day of teaching and learning
On 2 May 2015, The Cube hosted Creative Lab, a two-day professional development program designed to connect educators, curriculum writers and academics to STEAM learning experiences through hands-on workshops. Conceived by the Queensland Museum in partnership with QUT The Cube, the program provided a platform to further the…
Creative Lab: from the perspective of… Jess Schofield
Pre-service teacher Jess Schofield shares her experience at Creative Lab, held at The Cube and Queensland Museum last month. Jess: The Creative Lab program at QUT The Cube was a chance for educators from various fields to collaborate on ways to implement STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and…
Creative Lab: from the perspective of… Leighann Ness Wilson
Over the coming weeks, we’ll be revisiting Creative Lab from the perspectives of those who participated in or facilitated workshops. This week, interior designer and pre-service teacher Leighann Ness Wilson, a participant at the program, will share her thoughts on Creative Lab. Leighann: The Creative Lab workshops at QUT The…
Teaching STEAM: Inventive Toolkits for Inventive Thinking
Since 2013, The Cube has worked in partnership with the QUT Faculty of Education to provide professional learning opportunities for pre-service teachers. The Cube provides a number of programs that connect pre-service teachers with the STEAM learning and teaching framework. Jessica Schofield, a QUT pre-service teacher and Public…
STEAM in Action: Implementing STEAM in the classroom
The concept of integrating arts into STEM teaching has been gaining momentum in classrooms around the country, as teachers are beginning to adopt the creative, interactive approach of STEAM. Terry Deen, teacher at Kelvin Grove State College in Queensland and 2014 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Fellow, talks us through his approach…
QUT Precincts welcomes Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud
The QUT Precincts would like to officially welcome Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud to the Creative Industries Precinct residency space at Kelvin Grove. Hailing from Germany, Wachter and Jud are currently working onsite at the Creative Industries Precinct developing their project, Landung in Australien, which aims to explore the…
Exploring STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics)
A group of teachers from Kelvin Grove State College joined our Public Programs Curator to explore STEAM and we heard from Cube Resident Zach Lieberman.