Learning At Home
Day 1
Mathematics number crunch
Pick a number of the day and crunch it! Plus a scientific egg drop challenge.
Geology and the wonder of volcanoes
Study interesting facts about volcanoes, plus create pop art and complete a fitness circuit.
Can you crack the code?
Learn how to code plus discover the importance of a new family routine in these times.
Day 2
Hunt for shapes around the house
Hunt for squares, circles and triangles in your home plus making funny, mixed-up sentences.
Discovering how soap works
Learn how soap works with this fun experiment, plus play balloon tennis and create a word cloud.
Learning how to build a bridge
Tower challenge: how high can you go?
Day 3
Design a new toy and tell us how you feel
Get creative and design a new toy you can play with, plus play a fun dice game.
Create your own gratitude flower
Discover how a gratitude flower can help you focus on what’s good in life. Plus let’s go shopping!
Create an artwork from autumn leaves
Experiment with autumn leaves and art and learn about texture, plus learn about the Gold Rush.
Visit New York’s Museum of Modern Art
Day 4
How our faces change over time
Study how your face has changed over time from a baby to now, plus leraning days of the week.
Discover why we have night and day
Telling and understanding the time teaches us about day and night, plus a newspaper treasure hunt.
Distance from the Sun and planets
Put yourself in someone else’s shoes
Trying to understand how other people are feeling, plus take the crazy writing challenge.
Day 5
Create a ‘stay at home’ jingle for your family
Create a jingle to encourage your family to stay at home, plus create an ad to sell a toy.
Go on a neighbourhood treasure hunt
Can you find all the items on the neighbourhood treasure hunt? Plus meaningful letter writing.
Building prisms and creating 3D sculptures
Discover prisms around your home and design them, plus creating artistic 3D sculptures.
Learning to be grateful for what you have
In worrying times, learning to be grateful for what you have can be a powerful tool.
Day 6
Learning resilience and fun balancing games
Learn how to bounce back from difficult times, plus balancing games and taste tests.
Yoga and cooking with top netballers
Join elite netballers for sessions including yoga, cooking, fitness and how to stay positive.
Design a Moon digger, plus get dancing
Create an improved robot to dig on the Moon, start a diary and move to the groove.
Why Mondays should be outlawed
Creative ideas on why Mondays should be banned, plus forming hypotheses.
Day 7
Exploring Australia and creating mosaics
Understand the geography of Australia, measure your house and create mosaics.
Body percussion and backyard fitness
Make music with your body, create cool poetry and make a backyard fitness circuit.
How the earth rotates and tsunamis
Learn how the Earth rotates and how tsunamis are formed, plus create Batik art.
Solving the mystery of class 7A
Solve the mystery of the disappearance of Year 7A, plus understanding human rights.
Day 8
Learn how things float and sink
Discover what makes items float and sink, plus going on a bear hunt.
Visit the zoo from the comfort of home
Explore the animals at San Diego zoo, plus take the 30-day Lego challenge.
Make a pirate’s treasure map
Create a map to find the pirate’s treasure, plus life during the Gold Rush.
Understanding made-up words
Day 9
Seeing wild animals in 3D and in your home
Bring wild animals to life in 3D inside your house plus card wars.
Learn to touch type and create your own game
Learn how to type without looking at the keyboard, plus make up a fun, new game.
Make a wildlife film about your family!
Film and narrate a family wildlife documentary, plus build a backyard obstacle course.
Studying Aboriginal seasons and a drawing challenge
Learn how our Indigenous people describe the seasons, plus take the 15-minute drawing challenge.
Day 10
Drawing fantastic creatures
Create a monster or fantastic creature with your drawing buddy and learn how to collect data.
Get off the couch and get dancing
Move your body with fun dance sessions, plus can you solve the logic puzzles?
Pow! Understanding comic book art
Create amazing comic book word art, plus discover how plants survive.
What kind of learner are you?
Day 11
Go on an alphabet scavenger hunt!
Find the hidden alphabet letters in your house, plus acting out fun scenes.
Create your own origami shooting stars
Make Easter biscuits, plus see how far your origami shooting stars can fly.
Launch a ping pong ball into the sky
Build a device to launch a ping pong ball, plus learn a numbers magic trick.
What makes a good leader?
Understanding good leadership, plus discover the lost city of Pompeii.
Day 12
Try this tricky tongue twister
Wrap your mouth around this tricky tongue twister and then practise writing it.
Create a portrait of a character
Look inside the mind of a character and analyse what they are seeing, thinking and feeling.
Who will win the family funny races?
Take on your family in this funny races challenge, plus selling a household item.
Learn how much credit costs
Using maths to understand how much credit costs over time, plus take the thinking challenge.
Day 13
Make a whirligig, write a poem
Grow a plant from a seed jar
Grow a plant or sunflower from seed, plus a fitness challenge.
Make an Easter Egg garland
Create a decorate garland from Easter Eggs, plus build a dream bike.
What makes up a family?
Explore how families are made up of many different structures, plus get coding.
Day 14
Money, money, money!
Learn about our Australian currency, and play a rhyming word game.
Keep a gratitude journal
Document all the things you are grateful for, plus going on a word hunt.
Same same but different
Test yourself in the synonym word game, and learn money management.
Good food, good health
Learn how eating good food equates to good health, plus palindromes.
Day 16
Ring on the string!
Make your own string telephone, plus learn about healthy eating.
Anzac Day wreath
Create a commemorative wreath for Anzac Day, plus learning patience.
Still life drawing
Sketch a household item, plus is that a rhetorical question?
Stocks and shares
Understand the Australian Stock Market, plus are energy drinks good or bad?
Day 17
Rhythm and rhyme
Practice how to keep the beat to music, plus matching nursery rhymes.
Solve a zoo problem
Help solve a real-life problem at the zoo, plus building a growth mindset.
Invent your own sport
Create a unique sport of your own, plus compare Chinese dances.
A thankful task
Send a thank you letter to someone special in your life, plus play detective.
Day 18
Build a parachute
Build a parachute and discover how it works, plus learning gratitude.
A minute to win it
Play a game where you have a minute to win it, plus why koalas are a risk.
Make a volcanco
Build a volcano and see it erupt, plus solve the character puzzle.
Celebrating citizenship
Understanding Australian citizenship, plus saving our Great Barrier Reef.
Day 19
Create rain sticks
Build your own indigenous rain sticks, plus learn about Simpson and his donkey from Gallipoli.
Your dream bedroom
Design your dream bedroom set-up, plus learn how skipping improves your health.
Yothu Yindi’s Treaty
Understand the meaning behind Yothu Yindi’s song Treaty, plus let the dice tell your story.
World’s fastest ant
Learn about the world’s fastest ant, plus take the creative artwork challenge.
Day 20
Save the teddy
Can you find a way to rescue the teddy bear? Plus understanding patterns.
Squarosaurus plane
Cook your family some delicious Anzac cookies, plus train like a soldier.
Latin dance workout
Learn how to dance like a Latino, plus see close-up photos of the Sun.
The magic glass
Learn the magic of centrifugal force, plus the history of the Anzacs.
Day 21
Day 22
Heaviest or lightest?
Can you predict which item is heavier or lighter? Plus fun with skipping.
Anzac Day poetry
Write a poem to honour the Anzacs, plus work out like a soldier.
Music for remembrance
Learn how music an evoke emotions, plus baking Anzac biscuits
Design a book cover
Create a new book cover for a novel you are reading, plus build a backyard gym.
Day 23
Coping in tough times
Teaching young children to cope during tough times, plus dance with the Trolls.
Papier mache globe
Have fun creating the Earth from papier mache, plus number patterns.
Present the news
Turn your household events into a news program, plus make a marble run.
Drink can experiment
Can you predict if the drink can will sink or float? Plus using shapes to solve puzzles.
Day 24
High or low sounds?
Listen … can you hear high or low sounds around you? Plus skip counting.
A picture of emotion
Can you understand what a picture is trying to tell you? Plus reading a calendar.
Create a family tree
Research and compile your family tree, plus understanding cause and effect.
Our wild weather
Study Australia’s wild weather history, plus host your own talk show.
Day 25
Me and my shadow
Learn how your shadow is formed, plus go on a nature treasure hunt.
Unplugged treasure hunt
Use your problem-solving skills to find the pirate’s treasure, plus town maps.
Mini raft challenge
Can you make a popsicle raft that will float? Plus tessellated patterns.
World celebrations
Learn about different world celebrations, plus logic puzzles.
Day 26
School now and then
Find out the difference between school today and in the olden days. Plus, act out a story.
Playing card games
Learn maths from card games, plus design a dream bird for Mum.
Balloon games
Play a range of fun games with balloons, plus plan a family meal.
Create art from trash
Can you create a masterpiece from recycled materials? Plus logic puzzles.
Day 27
Acts of kindness
Discover the benefits of acts of kindness for others, plus play the Google Doodle coding game.
Make a bubble snake
Inventions and discoveries
Learn about some of the world’s most famous inventions and discoveries, plus silhouette sunsets.
Create a new ending
Imagine a new ending for one of your favourite books, plus the language of economics.
Day 30
How long is a minute?
Can you guess how long a minute lasts? Plus, discovering facts about ants.
Visit Unworry Island
Take a trip to Unworry Island and leave your troubles behind. Plus, solve the card puzzles.
Letter to the Editor
Add more emotive language to a Letter to the Editor, plus learning about buying power.
Explore the MCG
Take a virtual tour inside the MCG, plus create a Constitution board game.
Day 31
What’s the weather?
Learning to understand the weather, plus draw your own hopscotch.
Learn to draw Mickey
Find out how to draw Mickey Mouse, plus learning sport skills.
Experiment with seeds
Watch how seeds grow under different conditions, plus a musical performance.
Write the news!
Turn your favourite book into a news article, plus playing sudoku.
Day 32
Balloon experiment
Can you blow up a balloon without using your mouth? Plus family games night.
Cherry blossom painting
Make a cherry blossom painting for Mum, plus understanding graphs.
Make a mini compost
Create your own mini compost patch, plus make a 3D Mother’s Day card.
Sea turtles thriving
Learn why humans being stuck at home is great news for sea turtles, plus a 10min drawing challenge.