Topic: Agriculture

Disco Fruit – Different by Design

The week will consist of individual year level classroom based investigations involving students from Transition to Year 6. Students will engage with hands on investigations and experiments that demonstrate how fruits and vegetables are naturally different by design. Students will participate in investigating cross cut sections of fruits and vegetables that may appear outwardly similar…

Mini Masterchefs! What Can you Create?

As the theme for this year is Food – Different by Design, our challenges for the students include creative food preparation and designing a new scarecrow for our school kitchen garden.  * Whole school challenge K-6: Create your own delicious and healthy smoothie * Stages 2 & 3 challenge: Create an appetising dinner meal using mince. …

Up and Atom Science Fair

The children at the preschool will have a chance to get “Up and Atom” with science. First the children will be introduced to science concepts by viewing a science show created by local scientists and educators. They will then break into smaller groups and explore a variety of science experiments throughout the preschool, getting hands…

Indigenous Uses of Plants

Indigenous man Adam Shipp from Yurbay will come to the school and give a talk about traditional uses of plants. After the talk, the students will be exposed to native plants and investigate the environmental factors and sustainability of them. How the ancient cultures used and harvested these plants and the medicinal and healing properties…

Food for the Modern Family

During National Science Week from Monday to Thursday we will have guest speakers from 4 different science fields to discuss with the students their roles as scientists, and how their specific discipline is working towards  sustainable futures. The students will have a chance for Q&A at the end of each presentation. During the week, there…

Grafton High School – Year 6 Transition in Science Week

Grafton High School uses National Science Week to help get local primary school students interested and keen for science when they start Year 7. Year 10 Select and Gold classes run scientific experiments with the Year 6 students and talk to them about science and general high school life.

Food: Different by Design at St Johns Preston

Food is an important part of our daily life. As the population grows to 10 billion people by 2050, how will we feed them with sustainable and healthy food? These activities put students in the role of scientists to investigate these issues. in this activity teachers and students will run a number of experiments that…

Food, Different by Design Expo

Our School will be hosting a variety of demonstrations that will cater for our students from Prep through to Year 6.  The events will be set up in different locations around the school both indoor and outdoor and they will be Year Level appropriate.  The day will be run to a timetable with seven time…

Genetically Modified Foods – DNA by Design

Contemporary practices in agriculture and farming are changing quickly in order to produce food in a sustainable way whilst meeting the demands of the growing population and changing climate. One of the solution ideas involves genetically modified food production, that is enhancing the viability of crops in broader regions. We will use a miniPCR machine…