STEM: Hobart and Port Arthur

Discover Tasmania, celebrated for its renewable energy and pristine landscapes, on a hands-on STEM journey. Guided by a strong focus on sustainable agriculture and tourism, students will taste bush tucker, explore clean energy, and bring ideas to life through design challenges and a farm-to-plate experience.

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STEM: Hobart and Port Arthur

Discover Tasmania, celebrated for its renewable energy and pristine landscapes, on a hands-on STEM journey. Guided by a strong focus on sustainable agriculture and tourism, students will taste bush tucker, explore clean energy, and bring ideas to life through design challenges and a farm-to-plate experience.

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5 Days

Learning Areas

STEM

Destinations

Tasmania

Your Adventure

1 Hello Hobart
  • Arrive in Hobart
  • Indigenous Bush Tucker guided walking tour and tasting Walk through a culturally rich landscape with Palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal) guides and enjoy a guided journey that shares both the history and contemporary story of the area. Along the way, taste native bush tucker in season and gain first-hand insight into how the Palawa continue to enjoy cultural foods and practice culturally centred land management across Lutruwita/Tasmania. The experience concludes with a unique tasting of native flavours.
  • The sustainability design challenge Navigate a prestigious property recognised with a 6-Star, Green Star rating. Using maps and clues, earn points by identifying displays that highlight sustainability features, upcycling, resources, and architecture. This self-guided activity encourages curiosity, teamwork, and active exploration.
  • Creative design thinking for real-world problems workshop Explore how young people can drive sustainability by developing innovation and systems-thinking skills to create meaningful, real-world solutions.
2 Hobart
  • Hydropower Station guided visit Hydro Tasmania is Australia’s largest generator of clean, renewable energy and its leading water manager. Gain an exclusive insight into a power station and explore the process of hydropower generation, with the opportunity to witness world-class engineering and operations that keep Tasmania’s electricity supply reliable and secure. This activity is subject to availability.
  • Clean energy workshop Get hands-on in an energy workshop, where you’ll be challenged to either design, engineer, or test wind turbines or even take on the role of a town planner balancing energy needs and sustainability. Workshops are designed to be age-appropriate and engaging for all participants. This activity is subject to availability.
  • Sheep and crop farm guided visit with afternoon tea Explore a 750-acre working sheep and cropping farm, home to 3,000 sheep bred for both meat and wool. Learn about the farm’s diverse production, from opium poppies for pharmaceuticals to seed crops such as onions. Watch a live sheep-shearing demonstration, see skilled farm dogs in action, and join a guided forest walk. Engage in meaningful conversations about crops, conservation, and landcare—then relax and enjoy afternoon tea to round off the experience.
3 Hobart
  • Climate change, carbon cycle and ocean systems workshop Explore how carbon cycles through the atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere. Discuss processes such as photosynthesis and respiration, and examine how the ocean regulates global temperature and energy through systems like ocean currents. Investigate the human impacts of additional carbon in marine environments and their role in climate change. This activity is subject to availability.
  • Huon Valley excursion
  • Tahune Airwalk guided visit Discover the famous Tahune AirWalk, an elevated walkway 30 metres above the forest floor, and 50 metres above the Huon River with spectacular views of the World Heritage Area.
  • Driver-led Hobart sights Salamanca Place, Battery Point, Constitution Dock
4 Hobart - Port Arthur
  • Farm to plate cooking lesson and lunch The experience begins with foraging in the garden for the ripest spring vegetables. Anything not available in the garden is sourced from local Tasmanian producers. Learn about the plants you harvest and explore the gardening philosophy of farm-to-plate. Once harvesting is complete, head to the kitchen to prepare and cook your meal.
  • Cheese and chocolate farm guided visit and sample tasting Showcasing Tasmania’s finest produce, discover how this family-run business crafts cheese and chocolate and enjoy a taste or two of these delicious treats.
  • Travel to Port Arthur
  • Port Arthur ghost tour Join Port Arthur's black-cloaked guides and venture out into the night by lamplight to hear vivid stories of strange occurrences that have been reported here.
5 Depart Port Arthur
  • Port Arthur Historic Site guided visit and cruise Hear stories of life at Port Arthur and consider whether the settlement was a place of punishment, reform, or both, during visits to the Waterfront, the Penitentiary Precinct, the Hospital and the Separate Prison. View Southern Tasmania's most picturesque and unspoilt harbour cruising past Point Puer and the Isle of the Dead.
  • Oyster Farm guided visit Today at the oyster farm, discover everything about oysters—from spat to table (and yes, you’ll learn what spat is!). Enjoy a freshly shucked oyster and wash it down with a locally brewed drink. Learn about Candy Abalone, meet the divers, and explore the methods of drying abalone—not to mention the iconic ‘wall of abalone’ perfect for photos.
  • Depart Hobart and begin your journey home.

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