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. …
Topic: Environment and Nature
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…
The Rise and Fall of T. rex and Triceratops
Step into the world of T. rex and Triceratops with Matthew Carrano, Curator of Dinosauria at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Erich Fitzgerald, Senior Curator Vertebrate Palaeontology at Museums Victoria to explore the rise and fall of the Late Cretaceous Period and its iconic inhabitants. Celebrating National Science Week and the arrival…
Nocturnal – Slim to None
Journey through the realms of the rare and endangered, unique and unlikely to discover the wonders that defy all odds with a full program of talks, tours and surprises at Nocturnal. From elusive creatures to remarkable finds, explore our collections and exhibition, plus your chance to meet Victoria the T. rex, included with your ticket. Start the…