A Week of Wonderful Water activities will take place during National Science Week and cater to students from Prep to Year 6. Activities encourage students to engage in STEM principles of designing, building and modifying to address real-life issues in our beautiful seaside school environment. Included in this are solar boat design, water testing and…
Topic: Environment and Nature
The Living Land: An Evening with Zena Cumpston
For National Science Week, join Barkandji woman, writer, researcher, curator and storyteller Zena Cumpston, co-writer of Plants: Past, Present and Future from the First Knowledges series. Zena is passionate about plants and the many ways they illuminate the ingenuity and deep knowledge of her people. The First Knowledges series, published by Thames & Hudson Australia,…
Critters that Survive and Thrive Along the Birrarung
Join the Yarra Riverkeepers as they take you on a journey to discover the fascinating critters that call the Birrarung River their home. From bees to beetles and beyond, we’ll explore the unique ecology of the river and its importance to our ecosystem. It’s part of National Science Week, so don’t miss this exciting talk.
School Solar Oven Challenge
In the lead up to National Science Week, all classes at Albuera Street Primary School will be researching how to create a solar oven, using a pizza box or similar. We will pick the sunniest day (it is Hobart in winter) in Science Week to have our challenge. Each class will attempt to cook nachos…
On the Road with STEM Kids
Geraldton Community Toy Library are on the road with STEM Kids during National Science Week visiting three locations over three days to deliver exploratory play sessions targeting our future scientists, innovators, engineers and mathematicians. Children aged 3-8 and their families will discover how to ask questions, problem solve, experiment, hypothesis and evaluate with eight curated…
Al Siraat College Science Expo
This event takes a grassroots approach to sparking curiosity in STEM for primary school students at Al Siraat College and encouraging an inquisitive mind, encouraging critical thinking and sharing in the wonder and excitement of science. The learning outcomes include: critical thinking problem solving creativity teamwork estimating possible outcomes analysing the outcomes taking initiative communication…
BrainSTEM Innovation Challenge
This is the kickstarter event for a 12-week STEM mentoring program where teams of highschool students will be matched with scientist mentors to undertake a journey of experimentation, research and discovery.
Powering the Future
In National Science Week we will offer hands-on opportunities to make, create, innovate and research. A variety of transport kits, electronic kits, solar and air powered kits will be available to work individually or in small groups. Students will access augmented reality transport through iPads, design with Lego, drawing or loose parts play and build…
Remediate! for Orange High Schools
Do you want to learn how synthetic biology can remediate plastic from the environment? How you can add superpowers to a microbe to gobble up polluting plastic? And find out about the new industries synthetic biology is creating right now in your region. Come along and play a speed version of our card game Remediate! Equip your microbe character…
Footy Oval Astronomy
Join the Mount Burnett Observatory team as they take over a footy oval for a night of astronomy. View the night sky through our telescopes which will be trained on various objects in the night sky – Saturn, Mars, Mercury and the Moon should be visible. Learn how telescopes work and how to use one….