This week each class will participate in a science activity. There will be three sub divisions of junior/middle/upper primary. The activities will be fun and engaging and stimulating scientific thought and discussions and hopefully inspire. Activities will be devised and packs constructed to minimise teacher effort and produce activities that focus on fun and discussion….
Topic: Energy and Transport
Margaret Hendry School Innovation Challenge
Students will take part in one of three innovation challenges where they need to change something to make it the best possible: Twine Train Trouble You are in charge of a straw train, travelling over a piece of string/twine. It needs to travel 3m horizontally. How can you innovate your train to make it move…
Healthy Forests = Healthy Us Family Activity Day
What do trees have to do with the physical and mental health of humans? Come together to celebrate forest and human health, experience and learn about ways of how healing country heals ourselves, and vice versa. Details and online registration for workshops to be announced. Sunshine Coast organisations will bring the intersecting sciences of human…
Bradshaw School Science Fair
After hours school community event loaded with hands on experiences to ignite curiosity in science.
Durack School Power-Up Science Fair
Our whole-school Pre School – Year 6 Power-Up Science Fair will be held over 2 days. Teachers & students will rotate through engaging, experimentational, informational and hands-on stations exploring various science areas. Stations will include: animal husbandry agriculture in our school farm produce sweetness testing & tasting solar energy solar powered devices rubber band energy…
World Science Festival Queensland Ipswich Open Day
World Science Festival Queensland is returning to Ipswich this August. Come join the celebration as The Workshops Rail Museum once again becomes a STEM playground with immersive and family-friendly events for everyone to enjoy. Explore a transport wonderland for hands-on science fun – launch a rocket, step into a new world with Professor Tech’s virtual…
Discover Electricity Workshop
Investigate electricity, find out what electric circuits are, how currents flow, and the difference between series and parallel circuits. Discover what materials can be used as conductors and insulators. For children 4-7. $2 per child, must be supervised by an adult. If you have any issues booking online or any questions you can call the…
Best of Our Little Bang Workshops
What? When? Why? How? Bring your little scientists along to discover the answers. They will learn by watching, observing and helping. The experiments are for children aged 3-5, inspired by the Little Bang Discovery Club. $2 per child, must be supervised by an adult. If you have any issues booking online or any questions, call…
Social Animals Party for National Science Week
There will be late night exhibition viewing of our latest exhibition DARK MATTERS, some naughty zebras from Born In A Taxi, wild decorations, live music, food, drinks and a toast to celebrate being together again. If you work for a Victoria-based university, institute, museum, garden, zoo, or for STEM industries & government agencies, this is…
Girls Day Out in STEM: Future New Worlds Tour
Dear Future: I am READY… Join Girls Day Out in STEM this National Science Week to explore the future of industries across the job spectrum and check out the innovations that are powering them. Get ready futurist travellers as off we go to discover the new frontier in the modernisation of jobs and of jobs…