Furlong Park School for Deaf Children’s Science Fair. Each classroom will be presenting their projects based on the National Science Week theme Food: Different by Design. Each class will be given a task and they need to research, create, make, display and explain to increase understanding and engagement with food. The completed tasks will be…
Topic: Environment and Nature
SciScouts: Science of Outdoors
Scouting has always been strong on STEM skills. Maths to calculate catering quantities and navigate, the science of water purification, the physics of abseiling, and the engineering and construction of pioneering structures – they all had their place. Why not join Scouts from across Australia for our National Science Week program in August? We have…
Biodiversity
Planting – Pollinator Patch Year 5 – Love Food? Love Bees? Inquiry-based Learning four-day activities – Bees, Pollination and Food – Bees knees and Flower power – What are the threats? – Beeing helpful
Hope Christian College Science Week Activities
There will be science based activities for students from Receptions to Year 9s. It will be spread over the week 16 to 20 August. Most of the activities will be food based scientific activities. There will be four year levels which will be competing against each other. We will also have a combined staff morning…
‘Not the Science Type’ short online film viewing
Not the Science Type is a four-part docu-series that addresses negative stereotypes and the need for greater diversity, equity and inclusion in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.It highlight four women who break down boundaries within their fields – biology, engineering and science and technology-based applications. The series will premiere in Australia in…
Fantastic Food Frenzy Science Day
Whyalla Town Primary will have a whole day science event. In the morning all will meet in the gym for an introduction to the theme and then spend the rest of the day doing hands on activities to do with the theme. There will be experiments on the fastest way to melt chocolate. investigating how…
Yhonnie Scarce | Nuclear Histories with Dr Liz Tynan
Join journalist, nuclear researcher, and author Associate Professor Liz Tynan PhD to gain an insight into the history of British nuclear testing in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. This lecture provides context and background to complement Yhonnie Scarce’s exhibition Missile Park currently showing at the IMA. Scarce’s work is underpinned by extensive and in-depth research that explores the impact…
Yhonnie Scarce | Missile Park
Yhonnie Scarce is an artist known for sculptural installations which span architecturally-scaled public art projects to intimately-scaled assemblages replete with personal and cultural histories. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations full of aesthetic, cultural, and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found…
Rocking the Cradle of Life
Join A/Prof Brendan Burns to hear about how his astrobiology group at UNSW is studying the origin of complex life using the stromatolites, ‘living rocks’, of Shark Bay in Western Australia as a model environment. Discover how the field of astrobiology has relevance for our search for life elsewhere, including one of nearest neighbours, Mars….
National Science Quiz at Watsonia Library
Fancy yourself a quiz master? Join us for a live stream of the National Science Quiz to celebrate National Science Week. Hosted by Charlie Pickering, there will be panel discussions and experiment videos. The fastest and correct people to answer each of 15 questions via the quiz app will win a prize pack. Presented by ACEMS ARC…