Breeding sustainability into key generation
There's an exciting line-up in store for pupils at this year's Sustainable Living Exhibition from 6 to 8 September.
TO achieve sustainable living means understanding the environment, while positively interacting with it and thanks to scientific minds constantly making new discoveries, this achievement has become a possibility which confirms science has much to offer South Africans in terms of sustainable living.
Partnering with Imagine Durban in the Sustainable Living Exhibition for a second year, the KZN Science Centre is adamant in using the platform provided to make available exciting learning opportunities for visitors and pupils alike, since they understand that building the right mindsets in young minds is an important part of achieving a sustainable city.
Presenting the Scientastic Science Show, the KZN Science Centre aims to feed the curiosity of those young minds with an informative show run twice daily at the exhibition. Pupils will be treated to a host of exciting science experiments and demonstrations spanning from physics to chemistry and will also have a chance to enter the state of the art 3D planetarium, a dome where learners get to watch a 3D animated video about Earth, including the extinction of the dinosaurs and the life sustaining water cycle.
The KZN Science Centre will also have seven of its interactive mobile science exhibits on display for pupils to try out and play with.
These will be set up as an exhibition stand where pupils and visitors passing by can have a look and ask any questions to the science centre facilitators.
In addition, puppet craft master, Vusi Nkosi, will once again display his skills of expert craftsmanship by hosting an Object Manipulation Workshop at the exhibition where he will teach aspiring pupils the creative art of puppet making using simple waste materials found in everyday life, which in a truly sustainable world would be referred to as discarded resource materials instead of waste.
Nkosi is living proof of what a sustainable mindset can accomplish and makes it his duty to share his knowledge to improve sustainable awareness and benefit others.
The KZN Science Centre’s manager of education services, Nazley Kast, points out that while pupils get to engage with the fun and exciting side of science, they learn core concepts that they encounter not only daily, but in the classroom as well.
“As a science centre we understand the condition of our planet today and look to create awareness of innovative ways to improve its condition for tomorrow, therefore sustainable living is very important in creating an environmentally conscious generation that will be the key role players in building a healthy planet,” said Kast.
These exhibitions highlight the importance of living sustainably for a better tomorrow by bringing all things sustainable under one roof and ensures that the awareness being created is not only in the public but in pupils as well.
The exhibition is at the Durban Exhibition Centre from 6 to 8 September.
