UCTV Alive for Kids

A monthly webinar produced by the Peter Underwood Centre, designed especially for Year 5 and 6 students to watch live in the classroom or at home.

Each UCTV Alive for Kids webinar features an interesting Tasmanian talking about something they are working on or researching. Presenters explain their ideas and processes in a child-friendly manner. Past episodes have focused on everything from Aboriginal convicts, wedge tailed eagles and giant squids, to eating insects, mindfulness, and a step-by-step guide to making a stop motion animation.

We understand the importance of fostering curiosity and providing a platform for learners to ask questions. Students can interact with presenters via the Q&A text box in Zoom, with appropriate child safety protocols in place to ensure that only the host and presenter can see the questions being submitted. There is no video or audio of the interactions from participants.

Register for an upcoming UCTV Alive for Kids webinar below and you'll receive a confirmation email containing a link to join the interactive session.

Upcoming episode

March 2025

Registrations opening soon

Libraries Tasmania will be celebrating Tasmania Reads Week again from 23 to 29 March 2025! The time and date of our collaboration webinar will be announced shortly.

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Blake Nuto | Mindful Poetry: 'A Day That's Ours'

Join Blake Nuto, author of children’s book ‘A Day That's Ours,’ and take part in a mindfulness exercise that will connect students to their local area, get them out in nature, and help them create a poem.

Layah Conry | The Mobile Antarctic Classroom

What’s the coolest place on earth? If you said Antarctica, you might just be onto something! The Mobile Antarctic Classroom travels around Tasmania sharing lots of cool information about Antarctica, and University of Tasmania alum Layah Conry from the Mawson’s Huts Foundation will show you a little bit of it too in this UCTV recording.