The world is certainly an unusual place at the moment. Unprecedented in modern times, in fact. And as we navigate what may be the new usual for a little while, it’s important we reflect on our guiding principle here at Discovery – to stay curious, to collaborate, to be creative, to hold confidence within ourselves and those around us, and to have a ‘can do’ attitude through these testing times. Staying true to these, we understand how different, and let’s be honest at times difficult, it can be having the whole gang back at home; balancing schoolwork with careers, learning with playing, schedules with free-time, and generally re-wiring our brains to adjust.

In light of this, if you have joined us on our socials, Facebook and Instagram, and have tapped into our online resources page, you’ll know that we have Voyaged Online! We want to ensure parents, teachers and kids around Australia are supported in these alternate learning environments, through providing fun, interactive, play-based resources across the ether to you. With all our online activities focussed on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths, we want to play along with you at home, providing you with resources to fuel the curious minds of your young ones, and help provide supported environments for learning through play.

Each day, we are posting resources through to each of these links for teachers, parents and kids, including explorations of the UNE Natural History Museum, links out to our Friends and Partners around Australia and further afield, our very own curiosities and collaborations to discover the answers in our Curiosity Series, and Citizen Science Projects that the whole family can be involved in.

Despite the UNE Natural History Museum having to close its doors due to the pandemic, we are flying around with Discovery’s Tiny the Lesser Long-eared Bat and Owldelle, virtually exploring all the wonderful specimens through videos and content posts, providing you at home with activity sheets to pair with each exploration. ‘What Animal Am I Wednesday’ might also be a hit for the whole family, as we examine different animal skins and let you at home guess what it might be. Kudos to you if you can pick this week’s, it was a tricky one!