Topic: Environment and Nature

Grow Esperance Green Seed Library

A series of events surrounding the launch of a seed library – the Grow Esperance  Green Library. The development and launch of a seed library at the Esperance Library will allow people to borrow seeds available in the seed library tins, grow the plants with the support of the developed information and then using the…

Jingili Science Fair Extravaganza

The Science Fair Extravaganza in National Science Week is a day for the students to become the Science Experts. Throughout the Science Fair, students will showcase science investigations with our early childhood students and parent community. The outdoor learning area is set up to accommodate science stations where students are scientists; in action, conducting experiments…

St. John Fisher School Online Escape Room Challenges

The school community will participate in online escape room activities where family members can cooperatively discover clues, solve puzzles, and complete tasks to progress through a series of challenges. The challenges selected draw on a number of disciplines including science, technology and mathematics. Each grade from Kindergarten to Year 6, will have the opportunity to…

MIE Lab – Maths Modelling Challenge – Meat Consumption Scenario

Planetary health is a relatively new branch of science focusing on safeguarding the health of human civilisation and the state of the natural systems on which we depend.  This branch of science has put lower meat consumption at the heart of reducing humanity’s negative impact on the environment. Deforestation of land for livestock  adds to the carbon footprint  of a heavy meat diet and reduces available land that could produce far…

Beacy Does National Science Week

As the culmination of our week of events, including competitions, guest speakers, staff quizzes and a tabloid science day for P-6 students we will be creating a book about food, recipes and food fables from history.

Community Plant Based Recipe Competition

Creating a plant based community cookbook. As part of National Science Week celebrations John Curtin College of the Arts Roots and Shoots club in association with the Science, Food Technology and Media departments are running a competition to find our communities favourite plant based recipes. The 2021 theme Food: Different by Design can not only…