Digital maps are a useful tool to show the location of things, convey important messages to your audience and share a story with them. HERE Technologies is inviting you to join its mapping competition and build an online interactive map for a chance to win great prizes. Your map can be about anything… it can…
Topic: Environment and Nature
Meet the Scientists – Sign Me Up! (Bunbury)
The West Australian Foundation for Deaf Children’s Meet The Scientists – Sign Me up! Auslan interpreted event aims to engage deaf and hard of hearing children aged 6 – 12 years and their siblings and peers with science, providing them with exposure to science as a career pathway, building confidence in scientific concepts and inspiring them…
Meet the Scientists – Sign Me Up! (Perth)
The West Australian for Deaf Children’s Meet The Scientists – Sign Me up! Auslan interpreted event aims to engage deaf and hard of hearing children aged 6 – 12 years and their siblings and peers with science, providing them with exposure to science as a career pathway, building confidence in scientific concepts and inspiring them through…
STEM Alive for Kids
The Peter Underwood Centre is delivering 5 STEM based broadcasts during National Science Week. The broadcasts are tailored to suit children from Years 3 through to 6 however children and adults of all ages will find things of interest in these presentations. Broadcasts will be via Zoom Webinar. As a precaution and ensuring a safe,…
Did you know? Community Talk – Reducing Food Waste
Dr Polly Burey, Senior Lecturer (Food Science) at the University of Southern Queensland, will share her tips and experience on how to get the most out of your household food budget. She has practical ideas on how to create less food waste and also, how to make the most of any food scraps and vegetables…
Diego’s Foraging Guide
Learn all about wild edible plants growing in your backyard. In this 15 minute video, foraging expert Diego Bonetto demonstrates how to identify some of the common edible plants that grow in backyards and parks in the local Liverpool area, and explains some of their uses. Diego Bonetto is an artist, forager and wild food…
CURATOR TALK: The Larapintine Sea and Australia’s oldest ‘Megafauna’
Join Dr Adam Yates, MAGNT Senior Curator of Earth Sciences, as he discusses the Larapintine Sea and Australia’s oldest ‘Megafauna’. Dr Yates will talk about fossils of marine animals from the Ordovician period, approximately 450 million years ago when a warm shallow sea stretched across southern NT. You will get the chance to see fossils…
Deep Dive into Australia’s Ocean Odyssey
Deep Dive into Australia’s Ocean Odyssey is a 3 x 20-minute ocean education series on ABC ME and iview on 17 and 19 August during National Science Week. Focusing on Marine Life, Interconnectedness of Land and Sea, and Ocean Protection and Restoration the series is hosted by Rad Yeo and combines segments from ABC TV’s…
Green Team Presents – The Science Quiz
Grab your lab coat, mad scientist outfit and a beaker of your favourite drink and get ready for the Green Team National Science Week Quiz: Featuring four sections: Living Science Earth Science Prehistoric Science Adults Only Science
Keep Those Toys Afloat
Via remote learning, school students are encouraged to build a floating vessel out of foil, and they need to see how many Lego, Duplo or Mobilo characters or blocks they can balance on the vessel before it sinks or tips.