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We have a selection of incursion presentations available, each covering various aspects of meteorites, dinosaurs and other space related subjects. For details about each presentation please select a suitable subject heading on the left.
When booking an incursion, please indicate the available time (we need between 40 and 60 minutes to do the subject matter justice) and we will tailor the content appropriately. At the end of each presentation, we try to allow 5 minutes for questions and conclude with at least 10 minutes for students to actually hold a real piece of space in their hands or to see dinosaur teeth or other artifacts close up.
Kindergartens:
When presenting to kindergartens, we usually use a "paper" copy of our talk. The major slides have been printed A3 full colour, mounted onto cardboard and bound into a large book. This gives the talk more of a story time feel, which the children are more accustomed to. We start our talk by waking up our "D-Rex" robotic dinosaur who always gets the children's attention. They are asked many questions to allow them to express their interest in dinosaurs and the knowledge they have acquired, you will be surprised at just how much some of them already know.
Primary schools:
As many primary schools are not "period oriented" we are very flexible in the time required for a presentation and can tailor our talks to fill your required time. We can adjust the content from 45 to 90 minutes to fit in with your requirements. Our presentations will complement units of study on Space, the Solar System, Dinosaurs, Extinction etc. When talking to younger students we take an enquiry based approach and ask the students many questions about dinosaurs, what they may have eaten, how they protected themselves or where meteorites may have come from, how big they are and what they are made of. You will be surprised at just how much your students know about dinosaurs and space already and see how keen they are to offer answers. Many times students are bursting with enthusiasm and cannot contain their excitement.
Secondary schools:
When making a booking, please indicate the total period time available and we will tailor the content to allow the presentation to fit into the available time. Presentations to older students will have less emphasis on questioning the students about the subject matter and present more information for them to wonder about or for further follow up after our talk.
To see some of the examples used in our talks, please see the "Photos" page of this site that contains images of just some of the samples we will have available for hands on inspection. Note that some of the exhibits are extremely fragile (they may be more than 100 million years old, in some cases they may be more than 300 million years old!) or very small (the size of a fingernail) and may be contained in glass fronted display boxes for protection.
Equipment requirements:
We use Microsoft PowerPoint for all of our presentations and only require a place to project our presentation, however, if you have a computer already setup for presentations, we can run our talks from a memory stick plugged into your computer. We would also need a second USB port to install our remote presenter, which saves trying to move to the next slide whilst holding onto an 11kg meteorite in the other hand! We also require a couple of tables for placing our samples, initially all samples are hidden from view (to stop prying eyes) and are revealed as each item is discussed. An area of 1mx2m for placing of samples should be sufficient.
During our presentations, please feel free to take photos. In fact, some of the students have even brought along their own cameras to take photos for themselves when they knew we were coming ahead of time. Many of the pictures of students holding dinosaur teeth or meteorites will make great additions to your school newsletter or year book. For privacy reasons, we never post pictures of students on our site without written permission from the student's parent/guardian. | 
