Join our expert presenters to explore the dynamic nature of the Mornington Peninsula coastal and marine environment, focusing on climate change impacts and mitigation solutions. This is a day trip from Melbourne by bus, unless you live on the Mornington Peninsula and wish to join the bus at McCrae. Dr James Driscoll (Director of STEM Outreach at…
Topic: Environment and Nature
CCWA Citizen Science Bat Surveys
During summer the CCWA’s Citizen Science program carried out a bat pilot study. Using bat detectors to record the different species of bats and their behaviours at different sites across Perth and the southwest. Following on from the pilot, we’re testing out some bat survey changes at beautiful Yanchep National Park in preparation for our summer…
Micro:Macro – Models of insight and inspiration
Micro:Macro explores the role of models in understanding and exploring our world. Featuring models from science, mathematics, medicine, engineering, art, and architecture. Models shift perceptions and change understanding. Through altering scale, the miniature becomes visible, massive, and understandable. Single cells are expanded thousands of times, insects hundreds, and a whole suburb shrinks to a tabletop. …
Bundaberg Christian College Junior School Science Week
Ambassadors from Bundaberg Christian College will be heading over to the Junior School to help the Prep to Year 6 students understand how cleaning their hands properly is vital to species survival, in line with the National Science Week 2024 School Theme, Species Survival – more than just sustainability. Students will be able to use…
Bee-Friendly at Monash Primary School
Students will work as a team to complete activities based around assisting the survival of bees in our local community. Students will create seed balls containing seeds of bee attracting plants that grow well in our local area. Students will take some of these seed balls home to be germinated in local gardens, with others…
Family Day at Darling Square Library
Join us at Darling Square Library for National Science Week and explore this year’s schools theme: Species Survival. We will be hosting a line-up of creative science programs including makerspace workshops, informative talks, storytelling and performance, demonstrations, and interactive sessions. Activities: Talks and performances: Native bee musical performance – interactive insect cabaret performance for children by…
Surviving Our Planet with Powerhouse
Explore how science and technology have revolutionised sustainability and what this means for the survival of different species in our ever-changing world. Join Powerhouse volunteers as they spotlight objects from the Powerhouse Collection that highlight human ingenuity and resilience. Part of National Science Week.
Brain Break – Sci-Fi Writing Workshop
How can science and sci-fi help with today and in the future? Then we will do a tour of the dewey decimal of 500s and 600s. Then once that’s been down we will be doing a brain break morning tea questionnaire.
Climate Cafe
Museums Victoria science experts and youth mental health experts from Orygen and Headspace invite young people aged 16 to 26 to attend a Climate Cafe at Melbourne Museum that will involve interactive and visual learning experiences with safe group discussions around climate change and climate-related distress. With growing discussion about climate change, many are concerned…
Digital Art Class: Science Week Edition
From Triceratops to a world of bugs, Melbourne Museum is an amazing source of inspiration. Discover the wonders of digital drawing in this art and science focused workshop. Designed to inspire creativity, our Digital Arts Class is run in a unique digital immersive space. You will learn digital skills for drawing amazing museum objects. This…