To celebrate National Science Week we are raising awareness of the pathogen Phytophthera cinnamomi (Dieback), its potential impact, and ways to minimise these effects on our beautiful Australian endemic plants. The P. cinnamomi lifecycle, transport and barriers to reproduction will be discussed with Dr Peter Scott (Arborcarbon, DWG), Dr Janene Sproul (Murdoch, DWG) and members…
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A Night at the Opal Museum – Focus on luminescence and opals
Join the Brisbane Opal Museum for ‘A Night at the Opal Museum– Focus on luminescence and opals’. At 5pm we’ll host specially designed activities for young explorers aged 6-12 years old, including: Mineral fluorescence: Watch rocks glow under UV light! Porosity absorption in opal: Identify opals as they absorb water. Opal identification: Comparing opals with…
Galactic UV Light Secret Messages!
Do you like secret codes, invisible ink, and outer space? Then get ready—because during Science Week, students from Year 1 to Year 6 will become space scientists and UV detectives in our hands-on STEM activity: Galactic UV Light Secret Messages! What’s the Big Idea? Have you ever heard of UV light? It’s a type of…
Wonders of the Cosmos with Professor Danail Obreschkow
As night falls, the stars begin to tell a story more enthralling than our imagination can conceive. Join astrophysicist Professor Danail Obreschkow—Director of the UWA International Space Centre and researcher at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research—on a cosmic journey through space and time. This educational talk will take us from our home planet…
Guess the picture competition
One of the Big Ideas for my science classes this year is “Curiosity” which fits well with the Science Week theme ‘Decoding the Universe – Exploring the unknown with nature’s hidden language’. We discuss “observation” as a scientist’s most important activity on a regular basis. Before science week I plan on providing a digital microscope…
Connect with Scientists and Spark Student Curiosity – Earth Science Panel for Teachers
Welcome to the Connect with Scientists & Spark Student Curiosity – Earth Science Panel for Teachers! Join us on August 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM (Australia/Brisbane Time) for an engaging discussion. This hybrid event brings together scientists working in Earth and Environmental Science disciplines aligned with the Australian National Curriculum. The panel of scientists will respond to both…
Writing Top Scientific Reports
About the workshop (pre-registration, bookings essential) Engineers, technologists and IT experts are not always the best report-writers. Or are they? Learn the tricks of the trade in a comprehensive three-hour course designed to improve the writing and communications skills of those needing to file important reports. The Syllabus Session 1 9.30am to 11am, Melbourne…
Questacon National Science Week Webinars
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!…
STEMania! – Science Week In Schools 2025
STEMania! is a 45 minute, live-in-school, fact-filled interactive science sketch comedy presented by professional actor/educators that engages, inspires and educates students with the wonders of STEM. Celebrating the 2025 National Science Week school theme: Decoding The Universe – STEMania! illustrates how each STEM discipline plays a crucial role in decoding the universe and inspires curiosity and a love of learning…
Super Sonic Science Experience – Cunderdin
Super Sonic Science is Coming to Town! Get ready for a science experience that’s full of colour, movement, and surprising reactions when Super Sonic Science visits Cunderdin on Sunday, 10 August. From 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, enjoy a live science show filled with real experiments that demonstrate chemical reactions, changes in states of matter,…