• Want to find out how to make a world record breaking paper plane?
• Ever wondered what maths and sunflowers have to do with each other?
• Considered what makes a coral reef a coral reef?

If you answered yes to any of the above, then you should check out Questacon's free webinars this National Science Week! We will be offering three different topics: Foldable Flight, Under the Sea: Coral Reefs, and Living Maths from 12 August to 14 August.

Foldable Flight (60 mins, grades 3 to 6)

Learn how to design two different types of paper planes, darts and gliders, and how various design features such as wing size shape and angle, can affect stability and drag. 

Under the Sea: Coral Reefs (60 mins, grades 4 to 6)

Share some of your favourite reef creatures and make a coral polyp to add to your own ‘reef’. Learn about some of the conditions corals need to survive, and what happens when those conditions change. Become an ocean engineer by testing different materials and thinking how they might be used to build tools for scientists to study the underwater environment. 

Living Maths (30 mins, grades 7 to 10)

This webinar highlights some of the rules, patterns and formula that govern the shapes animals and plants take and how we can use what we observe to learn more about our universe. You’ll make your own Fibonacci flower and begin a 3-d fractal sculpture you can combine with your classmates and beyond. 

All of our webinars are presented on Zoom, and live-captioning available.