Educational activities for school students were initiated in 2000 and involve the Education Program and the Communications Officer.

Parker Centre Lectures
How do you make the chemistry of mineral processing interesting for high school students? In 2000, the Parker Centre took up this challenge by launching a series of annual lectures known as the Parker Centre Lecture for Year 11 and 12 chemistry and physics students.

These lectures provide the student audiences with an interesting and entertaining insight into the world of extractive metallurgy, while at the same time being relevant to the Western Australia school syllabus.

2005 Lecture: The Colourful World of Copper (11 and 13 May 2005)

2004 Lecture: Roman Glass to Rocket Nozzles - The Story of Nickel and Cobalt (10 and 12 May 2004)

2003 Lecture: Coins, Cures and Kodak - The Story of Silver (14 and 15 May 2003)

2002 Lecture: The Return of the Ballad of Big ¹³Al - The True Story (5 and 6 June 2002)

2001 Lecture: The Ballad of Big ¹³Al - The True Story

2000 Lecture: Gold Fever: Gold Extraction from 3000 BC to 2000 AD

2005 Recycling Projects Funded by the SCIps (School, Community and Industry partnerships in science) Project
Article about these projects: The Parker Centre Partners Schools on Metals Recycling (April 2005)
Final report on the battery recycling SCIps project (August 2005)
Final report on the e-waste recycling SCIps project (August 2005)

Website Resources for School Students
The "For School Students" page consists of resource material for primary and high school students in the form of links to other websites. These sites are general minerals related websites and websites with information (such as history, uses and extraction/processing) about some of the metals and metallic compounds that the Parker Centre researches eg gold, alumina, nickel, copper and zinc.

This page also contains links to science magazines on-line (including some specifically for kids) and links to other useful science related sites.