Abstract
Science learning is not just in the classroom. Science learning in school occurs outside the classroom, in the school grounds and during organised visits to sites such as science centres, science and natural history museums, botanical gardens, zoos, aquaria and nature and centres and are part of the teaching for a particular topic. Science learning also occurs outside the formal school curriculum in leisure visits with families and out of school leisure organisations such as Boy Scouts, or child carers. If members of the community, parents of the children and other people, are involved in science in school and the out-of-school visits to sites where science can be learnt they may also learn some science and hence the public's understanding of science is being developed. Furthermore, involving other adults promotes life long learning of science and taking school children to sites for science out of school develops awareness of places where learning can continue life long.
