Learn about some of the important climate science projects underway at Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne with Future Landscapes, a virtual one-day talks program. Join acclaimed writer and climate activist Sophie Cunningham (Melbourne and City of Trees) on the as she discusses the future of fungi with Tom May, Principal Research Scientist (Mycology). Uncover the story of the Gardens’ Landscape Succession Strategy on The Botanic…
Topic: Indigenous Knowledge
Science Week Online at Japara
Join us online at Facebook Japara for links for education about science in our world. We are not letting the COVID lockdown stopping us celebrating National Science Week, so tune into our Facebook for fun facts and activities you can do at home. A fun and engaging way to celebrate National Science Week in the…
Bee Amazed
Our focus for this year is the importance of bees as pollinators and their importance in the food chain as a link to the National Science Week theme of Food: Different by Design. All students will participate in bee-related STEM activities and science investigations during their science lessons e.g. making bee nests, bee finger puppets,…
Woombye State School Stem Trail
Our interactive Stem Trail takes you around the school grounds to explore our school environment. Explore the maths and science concepts and engage with Indigenous knowledge that is embedded in our gardens.
Postponed: HealthLAB – Ramingining School
Postponed due to the COVID lockdown The Menzies HealthLAB aims to translate research knowledge into action and improved health. It has the potential to positively impact health outcomes over the entire life course by ensuring the wider community, particularly young and Indigenous people are fully informed of the consequences that lifestyle choices made today, can…
Night Lab: Metamorphosis
Ch ch ch changes…. Join the Museum for a night of transformation, think caterpillar into butterfly, grapes into wine and bugs into food in an evening of creepy, crawly, spiky, slimy bugtastic and fabulouse fun. Confront your fears and phobias, challenge yourself to try something new and learn about the secret and not-so-secret lives of…
Women in STEM – schools
Join one of WA’s notable women in STEM, former Chief Scientist Professor Lyn Beazley AO, as she facilitates a panel of the WA Museum’s most distinguished women in science to discuss their scientific passion, what makes them tick, and how they entered the field. Budding scientists will be able to meet these STEM practitioners, be…
Broadwater Public School STEM Day
The week will involve the students accessing online activities. They will think analytically and problem solve different STEM activities based on food problems.
Postponed: BRAWL by the River
Postponed due to the COVID lockdown. Bega River and Wetlands Landcare (BRAWL) is hosting a family-friendly, community engagement event fusing bush tucker education and re-vegetation on the Bega River with indigenous plant species. Participants will collect, soak & grind seeds on grinding stones, to cook up a damper for morning tea. This will be followed by…
Science at Parramatta Online Trivia Quiz
Sick of lockdown isolation? Then join your fellow science enthusiasts for this fast and furious, live and online, trivia quiz. The Science at Parramatta Trivia Quiz will feature the topics: The Earth, The body, The sky. It will test your knowledge of some amazing science associated with Parramatta, from agriculture to biology, medicine to archaeology,…