Students will be immersed in a range of learning experiences linked to the National Science Week theme Food: Different by design. This will include students using virtual reality to explore food production process from around the world. Student will also investigate and sample edible insects as a sustainable, bit currently non-mainstream, food source.
Topic: Innovation and Technology
St Mary’s – Getting students excited
Our Year 5 and 6 students will run a variety of science activities in the Auditorium for the P-2 students to try. The older students will be responsible for planning the items, with teacher support, and delivering the activities. The Prep-2 students will have fun learning about different types of science.
Koorda Primary School STEM Challenge
A group of local schools will be joining us for a STEM challenge day, full of science based activities and competitions.
Famous Scientists visit Bairnsdale Primary School Science Fair
The ‘Famous Scientists’ visits aims to bring to life student’s science understanding in a fun and engaging way. The idea is that students research (living and formerly living) famous scientists and their real life discoveries, inventions and theories. Students then plan, organise and work on bringing this knowledge to life in poster and in-person form…
Park Ridge State High School Year 8 STEAM Showcase
National Science Week is being celebrate at the school from 16 to 20 August and to celebrate and showcase the success of our Year 8 IGNITE science of rockets projects the students will host their parents/carers and other school staff into our classroom to see the students developing their 21st Century skills as they working…
Carnaby Rise Primary School’s Science Celebration Day
Carnaby Rise Primary School’s Science Celebration Day includes rotational activities between classes across the entire school. Our Super Science Day will run for one whole school day, with each student rotating through 4 one-hour activities, moving through 4 classrooms, with each teacher in the school teaching one engaging, hands-on science lesson each, every hour, at…
Sphero Challenge
Students from across the school will be coming together to take part in a robotics challenge event.
Food: A practical experience
Students will explore recess and lunchtime activities over the course of National Science Week. They will: build pollen traps undergo flower dissections understand thermodynamics by designing a vertical wall or roof top garden burn food to find energy content investigate aquaculture undergo a sensory food journey
Abiotic Factors and Plant Growth
Students will investigate abiotic factors that affect plant growth. Using the watering stand using block-based coding on a Microbit to monitor soil moisture levels. Environment and Sustainability students will create posters for display and present to a whole school assembly. In National Science Week the hands-on activity is where students will use alphabet templates to…
STEM-venture
STEM-venture day with children from Reception to Year 7 at Paringa Park Primary School. Peer Leaders from our local secondary school will be helping us with our activities. STEM activities that include a Rube Goldberg Machine, mini golf, bubbles, volcanoes, Sci-cinema, catapults, slime making, paper plane challenge, nature play exploration, loose parts play, makerspace, robotics,…