We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
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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…
The Living Land: An Evening with Zena Cumpston
For National Science Week, join Barkandji woman, writer, researcher, curator and storyteller Zena Cumpston, co-writer of Plants: Past, Present and Future from the First Knowledges series. Zena is passionate about plants and the many ways they illuminate the ingenuity and deep knowledge of her people. The First Knowledges series, published by Thames & Hudson Australia,…
Critters that Survive and Thrive Along the Birrarung
Join the Yarra Riverkeepers as they take you on a journey to discover the fascinating critters that call the Birrarung River their home. From bees to beetles and beyond, we’ll explore the unique ecology of the river and its importance to our ecosystem. It’s part of National Science Week, so don’t miss this exciting talk.
Build a Wind Turbine
Students in Year 6 are spending Term 3 focusing on Year.6.378 – We are learning to analyse requirements for the transfer of electricity and describe how energy can be transformed from one form to another when generating electricity. As part of this unit students will be testing blades on a windmill
School Solar Oven Challenge
In the lead up to National Science Week, all classes at Albuera Street Primary School will be researching how to create a solar oven, using a pizza box or similar. We will pick the sunniest day (it is Hobart in winter) in Science Week to have our challenge. Each class will attempt to cook nachos…
Mad About Science: Liquid Nitrogen Show
What’s cooler than cool? Liquid nitrogen! Learn all about the states of matter and what happens when we heat things up and cool things down with our super cool chemical nitrogen. Lots of ice breaking volunteer moments, chilling demonstrations and even a frosty explosion – learn all about reversible and irreversible reactions with Mad About…
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,…