Students will research, then choose their favourite fun experiment to test, then showcase to our junior students and families. The offered experiments may include (but choices will be student led with a focus safety) colour experiments such as marbling with milk and food dyes/ melting Smarties in milk, capillary action colour moving. Water/oil experiments such…
Topic: Environment and Nature
NOCTURNA Dark Sky Retreat
Welcome to NOCTURNA, a celebration of the fragile beauty of the cosmos — embracing our long winter nights and taking the time to gaze at our still-pristine dark skies, a precious natural resource that is under threat from light pollution. The increasingly widespread use of artificial light outdoors not only impairs our view of the…
Dog Mob Cat Crew
AMRRIC’s education program, Dog Mob Cat Crew, will run a school education project at a remote Indigenous schools in the Northern Territory during National Science week, through data capture and monitoring, that lead to improved One Health (animal, human, and environmental health) outcomes for remote communities in Australia. The school-based program will deliver education sessions that demonstrate the…
Arludo’s National Game Design Challenge
Help your students design and submit an idea for Arludo’s next big science game. National winners will receive 3 months of mentoring while watching their game come to life. Arludo’s National Game Design Challenge will teach students in Years 3-6 how to design a video game, including how to pick a scientific topic or question,…
National Science Week @ Northside Christian College
Lunch time activities will be held carried throughout National Science Week to develop the enjoyment of learning STEAM and help our students become creative learners. We will have secondary students helping younger students complete the activities, on a signing-up basis. The theme for 2023, Innovation: Powering Future Industries, encourages our students to embrace Design Technology…
Kaarakin – Black Cockatoo and Nestbox Workshop
Kaarakin is a not-for-profit centre specialising in the rescue, rehabilitation and release of the three endemic and threatened species of black cockatoo that inhabit the southwest of WA. We are located on a large 41 acre site in the Perth Hills. We will be hosting a free day-long event for children to learn all about…
AI at Moorak Primary School
S: Science experiments T: Technology including VR, code.org, Mindcraft and Redstone E: Engineering with Lego building M: Maths through coding and Scratch
We Are Stardust: an embodied remembering through yoga, story and song
Our bodies are made from stardust: from the residue of supernovae, long, long ago. That stardust held the elements that form the building blocks of life. Over billions of years, some of that stardust coalesced to become our living, breathing human forms. Join Penny and Georgia for a guided journey through this phenomenal history. This is a…
Help Us Solve Spider Crab Mysteries
Every winter, in the heart of Port Phillip Bay and parts of the Great Southern Reef, a truly amazing natural phenomenon unravels: the gathering of thousands and thousands of great spider crabs. Those crabs come to the shallows together to seek safety in numbers and they are on a mission. In order to grow, they…
Explore the Deep Blue Ocean with Fizzics Education
Dive into the science of the sea with the Fizzics education team at Sunshine Library as we explore underwater life. Learn about coral, currents and echolocation. Image credit: Johan J.Ingles-Le Nobel CC-BY-ND-2.0