Scale Free Network
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About the store
Scale Free Network (SFN) began as a collaboration between visual artist (Briony Barr), art teacher (Jacqueline Smith) and microbial ecologist (Dr Gregory Crocetti). Based in Melbourne, Australia, SFN now has a nine year track record of dreaming up workshops, exhibitions and interactive installations for children and adults, combining both artistic and scientific themes. Focused on the microscopic world as a source of inspiration and wonder, SFN projects visualise, explore and educate about this invisible realm. Using interactive microscopes, projections from the microworld, hands-on sculpture and drawing techniques – and now books – SFN asks the viewer-participant to look and think beyond the human scale from which we are so accustomed to seeing.
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The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon - Audiobook
This is the audio narration of The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon, that beautifully accompanies either the printed or digital versions of the book.
The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon is about a symbiotic relationship. It tells the story of the bobtail squid and the bacteria that helps it glow in the moonlight. First we meet Ali, an intrepid Vibrio fischeri bacterium determined to reach safety. Then we meet Sepio, a baby bobtail squid who is still unable to glow. His dark shape is too obvious in the
3rd - 6th
Biology, Environment, Reading
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About the store
Experience
Scale Free Network (SFN) began as a collaboration between visual artist (Briony Barr), art teacher (Jacqueline Smith) and microbial ecologist (Dr Gregory Crocetti). Based in Melbourne, Australia, SFN now has a nine year track record of dreaming up workshops, exhibitions and interactive installations for children and adults, combining both artistic and scientific themes. Focused on the microscopic world as a source of inspiration and wonder, SFN projects visualise, explore and educate about this invisible realm. Using interactive microscopes, projections from the microworld, hands-on sculpture and drawing techniques – and now books – SFN asks the viewer-participant to look and think beyond the human scale from which we are so accustomed to seeing.
Teaching style
We believe humans learn best through creative stories. That's why we have created Small Friends Books series to tell positive stories about bacteria, fungi, viruses... and more.
Because without them, we couldn't survive.
Awards & shining teacher moments
The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon is winner of a Bronze medal in the Children’s eBook category in 2015 US Independent Publisher (IPPY) awards.
Zobi and the Zoox is winner of a Puggle (children's choice award), and shortlisted for the 2015 Environmental Award for Children's Literature, the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year award and a 2015 DeBary Outstanding Children's Science Book Award.
The Invisible War is winner of the 2017 Australian Book Design award for Best Educational Primary/Secondary Book.
My own education history
Dr. Gregory Crocetti
- Bachelor of Science (Hons),
- Ph.D. (Microbiology),
- Diploma of Education (Secondary).
Briony Barr
- Bachelor of Arts (English),
- Bachelor of Fine Arts,
- Master of Fine Arts.
Additional biographical information
Gregory Crocetti has a decade of experience as a scientific researcher and another decade of experience in science education.
Briony Barr has a decade of experience working as a practising artist and a decade of experience working in arts education.
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