http://brag-brc.org.au/rss en http://brag-brc.org.au/content/pet-rocks-thurs-5-july <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal">Kids will love creating their own Pet Rock Monster or Glitterbug in this fun holiday workshop. Rock Artist Tammy Ward will share her love of painting colourful and quirky characters on rocks. Each child will be able to take 2 pet rocks home with them.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>WHEN</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Thursday 5 July 2012 | 10am-12noon</p> <p><strong>COST</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; $9 per child</p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/pet-rocks-thurs-5-july">read more</a></p> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:54:04 +1000 chloe 443 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/pet-rocks-wed-4-july-1pm-session <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal">Kids will love creating their own Pet Rock Monster or Glitterbug in this fun holiday workshop. Rock Artist Tammy Ward will share her love of painting colourful and quirky characters on rocks. Each child will be able to take 2 pet rocks home with them.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>WHEN</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Wednesday 4 July 2012 | 1pm-3pm session</p> <p><strong>COST</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; $9 per child</p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/pet-rocks-wed-4-july-1pm-session">read more</a></p> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:52:55 +1000 chloe 442 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/pet-rocks-wed-4-july-10am-session <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal">Kids will love creating their own Pet Rock Monster or Glitterbug in this fun holiday workshop. Rock Artist Tammy Ward will share her love of painting colourful and quirky characters on rocks. Each child will be able to take 2 pet rocks home with them.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>WHEN</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Wednesday 4 July 2012 | 10am-12noon session</p> <p><strong>COST</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; $9 per child</p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/pet-rocks-wed-4-july-10am-session">read more</a></p> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:52:02 +1000 chloe 441 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/pet-rocks-mon-2-july-1pm-session <p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt" class="MsoNormal">Kids will love creating their own Pet Rock Monster or Glitterbug in this fun holiday workshop. Rock Artist Tammy Ward will share her love of painting colourful and quirky characters on rocks. Each child will be able to take 2 pet rocks home with them.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>WHEN</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Monday 2 July 2012 | 1pm-3pm session</p> <p><strong>COST</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; $9 per child</p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/pet-rocks-mon-2-july-1pm-session">read more</a></p> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:51:09 +1000 chloe 440 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/pet-rocks-mon-2-july-10am-session <p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><br /> <w:WordDocument><br /> <w:View>Normal</w:View><br /> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom><br /> <w:TrackMoves /><br /> <w:TrackFormatting /><br /> <w:PunctuationKerning /><br /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /><br /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid><br /> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent><br /> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText><br /> <w:DoNotPromoteQF /><br /> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-AU</w:LidThemeOther><br /> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian><br /> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript><br /> <w:Compatibility><br /> <w:BreakWrappedTables /><br /> <w:SnapToGridInCell /></p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/pet-rocks-mon-2-july-10am-session">read more</a></p> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:39:18 +1000 chloe 439 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/park-benches-childers-arts-space <p>Park benches are everywhere - in the city, country, at the beach, by lakes and streams, on street corners, under trees and at bus stops. Come and view how artists of the combined art groups of the region interpret this theme into sculptured and painted delights.</p> <p><strong>EXHIBITION LAUNCH </strong></p> <p>Friday 11th May, 5pm Childers Arts Space</p> http://brag-brc.org.au/content/park-benches-childers-arts-space#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:24:34 +1000 chloe 438 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/elder-and-young-childers-arts-space <p>An exhibition showcasing the work of the teacher (Elder) and the student (Young). Elder and Young showcases a diverse range of stories, yarns and artists interpretations of dreamtime stories from around Australia. </p> <p><strong>EXHIBITION LAUNCH </strong></p> <p>Saturday 30th June, 5pm Childers Arts Space</p> http://brag-brc.org.au/content/elder-and-young-childers-arts-space#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:22:25 +1000 chloe 437 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/putting-lid-it <p>&lsquo;Putting a Lid On It&rsquo; is an installation of book boxes by Bundaberg based printmaker and book artist Catherine McCue Boes. McCue Boes spent many weeks at two remote gas plants photographing the impact these gas plants had on their surrounding landscape. As well as recording the environmental damage caused directly and indirectly by their establishment.</p> <p><strong>ARTIST TALK </strong></p> <p>Join Catherine McCue Boes on World Environment Day, 5th June at 10am for an artist's talk. Refreshments will be provided. Free event, all welcome.</p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/putting-lid-it">read more</a></p> http://brag-brc.org.au/content/putting-lid-it#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:32:30 +1000 chloe 436 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/freshwater-saltwater <p>Water holds deep spiritual and cultural significance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The vast network of rivers, creeks, billabongs, lakes and coastal regions found across the country represent a rich source of food and culture for Indigenous Australians. Marine environments are places to hunt, fish and to have contact with non-Indigenous Australians. For this reason, water is central to dreaming stories and different forms of marine life are often used as family or clan totems.</p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/freshwater-saltwater">read more</a></p> http://brag-brc.org.au/content/freshwater-saltwater#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:28:28 +1000 chloe 435 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/strike-pose <p>From mini skirts of the 1960s to the bohemian fashions of the late 1970s, Strike A Pose...with Lee Lin Chin showcases photography from these two dynamic decades, with images drawn exclusively from the National Archives of Australia's diverse photographic collection.</p> http://brag-brc.org.au/content/strike-pose#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:24:15 +1000 chloe 434 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/seaweed <p>This seaweed installation is designed to highlight the importance of the ocean, where plants are the foundation of the food chain and their health is critical for the maintenance of marine ecosystems. These are currently threatened by global warming, as well as by soil and fertiliser run off. The artists inspiration has been taken from the seaweed found walking along the beach, Stirling creates beautifully intricate prints from pressed seaweed while McDonlad cuts out discarded plastic bottles into seaweed shapes.</p> <p><strong>ARTIST TALK</strong></p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/seaweed">read more</a></p> http://brag-brc.org.au/content/seaweed#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:45:27 +1000 chloe 433 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/friction-inertia <p><strike><strong>Available Term Four</strong></strike></p> <p><strike>This Kit explores 2 important principles of intertia and friction. In the 17thy Century Galileo reasoned that moving objects would eventually stop due to the force of friction. Users will be able to conduct activities to test some of these ideas using inertia rods. The Kit also includes a printed resource on the strand Energy and Change.</strike></p> <p><a href="/files/Friction and Inertia.pdf"><strike>View contents of the kit</strike></a></p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/friction-inertia">read more</a></p> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:59:20 +1000 chloe 424 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/antarctic-expeditions-anare <p><strike><strong>Available Term Four</strong></strike></p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/antarctic-expeditions-anare">read more</a></p> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:58:09 +1000 chloe 423 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/south-america <p><strong>Available Term Four</strong></p> <p>Discover the ancient world of the Incas, Maya and Aztecs. Compare their differing styles of clothing, currency, and pottery. Put on a play using 10 traditional finger puppets. Discover how the coming of the conquerors and the missionaries changed peoples' lives and faiths. Included are basic language books depicting various tribes and 16 artefacts including a blanket, cap, flag, gourd, plate and shawl.</p> <p><a href="/files/South America.pdf">View contents of the kit</a></p> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:56:40 +1000 chloe 422 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/archosaurs <p><strike><strong>Available Term Four</strong></strike></p> <p><strike>Explore evidence of change through fossils of the Mesozoic era between 220 and 65 million years ago, including extinct dinosaurs and their surviving crocodile and bird relatives. Specimens include a bird wing, crocodile tooth, a model of an ornithopod dinosaur, the cast of an Allosaurus claw, conifer fossil cast, Muttaburrasaurus vertebrae cast, Pterosaur fossil cast and dinosaur footprints casts.</strike></p> <p><a href="/files/Archosaurs.pdf"><strike>View contents of the kit</strike></a></p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/archosaurs">read more</a></p> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:55:43 +1000 chloe 421 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/micro-marvels <p><strike><strong>Available Term Four</strong></strike></p> <p><strike>Take a closer look at the world around you with a range of specimens designed to highlight beauty in the small and everyday. Specimens include an Assassin bug, clam shell, coral, freshwater crab, cicada exoskeleton, starfish, land snail, wombat fur, sea snake skin, insect wings, fish skin, bird feather. Using the digital microscope included in the kit users can zoom in on a freshwater mite, mosquito larvae and brine shrimp.</strike></p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/micro-marvels">read more</a></p> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:54:41 +1000 chloe 420 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/marine-life <p><strike><strong>Available Term Four</strong></strike></p> <p><strike>Explore a variety of marine life and how they interact with their environment and each other. Investigate interactions between living things and suitability for a marine habitat. Specimens range from a crab, to a seahorse, stonefish, cone shell display, coral display, echinoderm display to a stingray and Port Jackson Shark egg case. Users can also sort through the coral and shell touch boxes.</strike></p> <p><a href="/files/Marine Life.pdf"><strike>View contents of the kit</strike></a></p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/marine-life">read more</a></p> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:53:25 +1000 chloe 419 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/simple-machines <p><strike><strong>Available Term Three</strong></strike></p> <p><strike>Simple Machines will enable teachers and learners to perform an in-depth qualitative study on a simple machine. The study involves five stages of development, including investigation of the model machine, as well as further research and application to a real life machine. The kit contains teacher&rsquo;s notes and activities linked to the Science syllabus. Models include an inclined plane and motion converter. Users can engage in activities involving Newton Meters, Pulleys and string.</strike></p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/simple-machines">read more</a></p> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:52:02 +1000 chloe 418 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/we-remember-anzac-day <p><strike><strong>Available Term Three</strong></strike></p> <p><strike>This kit identifies community commemorations and the historical origins of one of Australia&rsquo;s commemorations; ANZAC Day. 10 Artefacts range from ammunition pouch to anklets, hats, Jacket, shirt, vest and waterbottle.</strike></p> <p><a href="/files/We Remember ANZAC Day.pdf"><strike>View contents of the kit</strike></a></p> <h4>This kit is fully booked. No further bookings are being taken at this time. Thank you</h4> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:50:43 +1000 chloe 417 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/multicultural-hats <p><strike><strong>Available Term Three</strong></strike></p> <p><strike>This kit contains hats from many different countries including Java, Torres Strait Islands, Russia, Bali, India, Vietnam, China and Pakistan. Users can enjoy wearing the hats as well as comparing the materials used to create the hats and discussing their different functions i.e. ceremonial, protection from weather.</strike></p> <p><a href="/files/Multicultural Hats.pdf"><strike>View contents of the kit</strike></a></p> <h4>This kit is fully booked. No further bookings are being taken at this time. Thank you</h4> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:49:25 +1000 chloe 416 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/fossil-collection <p><strike><strong>Available Term Three</strong></strike></p> <p><strike>Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of plants, animals and other organisms from the past. Fossils may contain parts of an animal such as bones or teeth or traces such as a footprint. Fossils are important as they help us understand what extinct animals used to look like and how they lived. Explore the past through this fascinating kit.</strike></p> <p><a href="/files/Fossil Collection.pdf"><strike>View contents of the kit</strike></a></p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/fossil-collection">read more</a></p> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:48:23 +1000 chloe 415 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/queensland-emblems <p><strong>Available Term Three</strong></p> <p>Queensland&rsquo;s State&rsquo;s emblems include the Koala, Brolga, Barrier Reef Anemone fish, and Cooktown Orchid. These emblems reflect the history and values of the state. Artefacts in this kit include a Brolga sculpture, the Queensland flag, while specimens include a Brolga egg, koala cranium and pelt, a model of the Cooktown orchid, and a cast of the Anemonefish. This kit also explores the effect of human activity on local habitats.</p> <p><a href="/files/Queensland Emblems.pdf">View contents of the kit</a></p> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:47:20 +1000 chloe 414 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/amphibians <p><strike><strong>Available Term Three</strong></strike></p> <p><strike>A great kit to start exploring frogs and toads. The Kit includes a specimen of the metamorphosis of a tree frog, the skeleton of an Asian toad and the specimen of the metamorphosis of a Cane Toad. Users can also handle casts of a Green Tree Frog, Broad Palmed Rocket Frog and Cane Toad and put together a jigsaw puzzle of a red eyed tree frog (24 pieces).</strike></p> <p><a href="/files/Amphibians.pdf"><strike>View contents of the kit</strike></a></p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/amphibians">read more</a></p> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:46:12 +1000 chloe 413 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/photography <p><strike><strong>Available Term Two</strong></strike></p> <p><strike>A great opportunity to look at how technology has changed over time. Users will be able to explore and engage with vintage cameras, photographs and negatives. Artefacts include a box brownie camera, Kodak Instamatic camera, Kodak with bellows, Polaroid Super 8, Polaroid Zip, developing tray, film plate holders, negatives, photographs and postcards.</strike></p> <p><a href="/files/Photography.pdf"><strike>View contents of the kit</strike></a></p> <p><a href="http://brag-brc.org.au/content/photography">read more</a></p> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:44:57 +1000 chloe 412 at http://brag-brc.org.au http://brag-brc.org.au/content/school-history <p><strike><strong>Available Term Two</strong></strike></p> <p><strike>Children will be able to see and handle school books and equipment from the past in this kit. Artefacts include a homework sheet, milk bottle and cover, school port, slate, textbooks, writing equipment, good manners chart, Queensland school paper, Queensland school readers and more.</strike></p> <p><a href="/files/School History.pdf"><strike>View contents of the kit</strike></a></p> <h4>This kit is fully booked. No further bookings are being taken at this time. Thank you</h4> Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:44:03 +1000 chloe 411 at http://brag-brc.org.au