Recording of a live event: Aboriginal Rangers from 80 Mile Beach in the Kimberley, WA, and Cape York in Queensland discuss their turtle monitoring program. See footage of digging up the nests and counting the hatchlings’ success. See how the Rangers use technology to document data and how & why this data is analysed. Rangers…
Topic: Innovation and Technology
Moggill State School’s Paper Aeroplane Making Competition
Moggill State School will celebrate National Science Week with a culminating activity of a paper aeroplane making competition. As part of students’ Design and Technology unit about Flight, students will learn about the elements of flight including lift, thrust, drag and gravity to design and make a paper aeroplane using various materials including paper, card…
Mowbray Heights Primary School Biennial Science Fair
Every two years our two large meeting halls are transformed into a Science Fair extravaganza. Staff, both teaching and support, provide a hands on activity table which is accessed throughout a day by our 550 students. The overall theme for the event is about glass, but the tables do not have to reflect this. We…
Northern Support School Science Show
Student Leaders from our K-12 Special Education facility will be creating an action-packed science show to engage learners across the grades and build enthusiasm for STEM. They will be exploring biological, earth, space, physical & chemical sciences and demonstrating what scientific inquiry looks like for our diverse range of learners. In addition to filming a…
Festival of Bright Ideas 2022
FOBI is Tasmania’s largest public STEM event with more than 40 hands-on activities and workshops under one roof. There is also a mainstage program featuring some of Australia’s favourite science performers. Check out our website for all the details. Tickets are available online. There are 3 sessions available to attend at 9:00 am, 11:30 am…
Windows into Worlds
Our focus for this year is Windows into the Worlds of Science, as a link to the National Science Week theme of Glass: More than meets the eye. All students will participate in glass-related STEM activities and science investigations during their science lessons e.g. investigating stained glass lollies and the properties of glass, making kaleidoscopes,…
Ethos Forum: Disposable Health
How many medical masks have you used in the last three years? How many Rapid Antigen Tests have you taken? The plastic waste of the pandemic is overwhelming on a personal level, let alone a global level. But what else can you do when hygienic healthcare is disposable? In this Ethos Forum, we are looking at…
ANSTO’s National Science Week Hackathon
For the third year in a row ANSTO, in partnership with ASTA and DFGN, will be running a National Science Week Hackathon which aligns with this year’s theme: Glass: More than meets the eye. The hackathon will celebrate the many roles that glass plays in our lives – from phone screens to optical fibres to…
Crystal Clear
Crystal Clear will be a series of events for our school community running from 15 to 19 August. Throughout the week, each year level from Foundation through to Year 10 will take their turn at visiting the Science Laboratory for an age-appropriate double lesson of fun, hands-on science experiments and glass-themed design challenges aimed at…
Nundah State School Science Week
Every Year Nundah State School hosts a variety of activities to engage the school’s students with the yearly theme of National Science Week. For this year’s theme of Glass: More than meets the eye our key activities are: Creating kaleidoscopes using laser pointers and prisms to explore how light changes using mirror tape to explore…