Normanton State School will be holding a National Science Week event on Friday 19 August. Students from Prep to Year 10 will be involved in hands-on activities, engaging students in biology, chemistry and physics. Students will rotate through a range of activities.
Topic: Environment and Nature
Caring for the Rare
Victoria’s Zoos, Museums and Botanic Gardens are more than interesting places for people to visit - they are also engines of cutting-edge research and field work. Join us for a special online event, streamed live from Victoria’s Parliament House during National Science Week, to hear from the botanists, zoologists and collection managers leading this important work. Find out about…
Inspiring MidCoast schools and community with eDNA science
Coupled to DNA metabarcoding, eDNA is a powerful means of biodiversity monitoring and is increasingly being used to engage and empower community environmental awareness and action through well-designed citizen science programs. The project engages primary schools and targeted community organisations to identify a variety of animal species present in local rivers and creeks in the…
Creation Creation
How did we get here? Are aliens real? And is it possible to lick your elbow? Based on interviews with members of the community aged between 8 – 102, Creation Creation is a comedy about life’s biggest mysteries. Two fearless creators will step onto the stage and attempt to unravel the mysteries of the universe using whatever…
Dirk Hartog Island National Park: Return to 1616 Ecological Restoration
Whilst the amazing boom/bust cycles of the North American lynx and the snowshoe hare make fascinating environmental study material for Australian students… what about environmental studies closer to home? What’s happening in Australia? The Dirk Hartog Island National Park Return to 1616 is Western Australia’s most important ecological restoration project. Located within the Shark Bay…
Lego Sustainable Fashion Show
Do you want to try your hand at making clothes out of recycled and sustainable materials such as paper, plastic wrappers, recycled fabric, and organic material? Bring along your imagination and your creative engineering mindset, and we’ll provide the rest. We’ll talk about the various materials and technologies used in modern fashion design, including the…
Combining Western and Indigenous Science to Help Us Undertake Responsible Caring of the Land
The objective of the Great Southern Regional TAFE STEM day is to excite students from rural backgrounds about the extraordinary and unique biodiversity of southwestern WA. We want to ‘plant the seed’ to encourage students to continue to seek knowledge about the unique ecology of their local landscapes. We hope they will recognise the importance…
Can’t See the Adaptation For the Trees?
Plants, from miniature mosses to towering trees, are fundamental to healthy ecosystems. They provide benefits such as food, habitat, and clean air as well as to people and our cities. But what happens when the environment that plants are used to, changes? Can they adapt to withstand this change and continue supporting our fabulous ecosystems, and…
HMRI’s Poo Palace
The Poo Palace is a giant inflatable with tunnels and slides that re-creates the human digestive system. Children and adults will be able to experience the journey food takes along the digestive tract. The Poo Palace journey starts with children entering a ‘giant mouth’. Next they slide through a tunnel representing the oesophagus and into…
UV Awareness!
Sorry Hillary but I can’t publish an in-person event without a street address. If you could write a short article about the project I could put that on the news feed. That would need an image too (landscape orientation). Geoff Crane, Manager, National Science Week Cancer Council NT(CCNT) provides support, prevention education and advocacy for…