Sydney Science Festival is an exciting and accessible program of science events presented by Powerhouse Museum in August. It aims to inspire curiosity about what science is capable of – and criticism too – in a series of interactive performances, talks and exhibits across the city. This year’s festival theme Trace explores the many marks…
Topic: Mathematics
Weather in my World
Weather in Our World exploring will include an after school interactive exhibition involving students, parents, and the community. Our investigations will involve students from Pre-school to Year 2. The day will include a rotation of engaging, hands-on science experiments at stations set up in each classroom, and activities and demonstrations from all areas of the…
Lilydale High School Science Week
In this 3 week project, Year 9 Athlete Development Program science students will undertake a STEM focused project to foster authentic student voice and agency opportunities, creating activities and events with an Innovation: Powering Future Industries theme to engage junior students in National Science Week Activity sessions. This project will help our ADP sports students…
Hotdogs, Triangles, and AI: Pattern finding in machine learning
2,4,6,8… There are patterns in numbers, language, nature, and everywhere! Humans are hard-wired to notice patterns, mathematicians analyse and model them, and machines are learning to recognise and apply them. Artificial intelligence may find patterns humans miss. Is this a good thing? Join the amazing Matthew Mack a teaching associate in the Department of Mathematics…
Mentone Primary Bridge Building Competition
The children in Years 3 – 6 will be challenged to build a 50 cm long bridge that can hold the most weight, using : paper straws masking tape ice-cream sticks paper cardboard. The whole school to watch to see who will be crowned MPS bridge building champion.
Ave Maria Kindergarten Science Week
Children will be immersing in National Science Week activities. Different classes will be engaging in different activities during their time at kinder.
A Wonderful Week of Water
A Week of Wonderful Water activities will take place during National Science Week and cater to students from Prep to Year 6. Activities encourage students to engage in STEM principles of designing, building and modifying to address real-life issues in our beautiful seaside school environment. Included in this are solar boat design, water testing and…
On the Road with STEM Kids
Geraldton Community Toy Library are on the road with STEM Kids during National Science Week visiting three locations over three days to deliver exploratory play sessions targeting our future scientists, innovators, engineers and mathematicians. Children aged 3-8 and their families will discover how to ask questions, problem solve, experiment, hypothesis and evaluate with eight curated…
Lunchtime STEM club
This week we are introducing the lunchtime STEM club that will continue to run throughout the rest of the year. The club will run everyday during Science week and on Monday’s in the following weeks. A wide variety of activities will be undertaken such as mouse trap racers, designing and building solar panel run technology,…
Powering the Future
In National Science Week we will offer hands-on opportunities to make, create, innovate and research. A variety of transport kits, electronic kits, solar and air powered kits will be available to work individually or in small groups. Students will access augmented reality transport through iPads, design with Lego, drawing or loose parts play and build…