Experience artistic and visionary alternative futures in a science themed world first. Five iconic Australian landmarks transform each sunset in August as illuminart’s vibrant regional projections blaze to life simultaneously in a connected trail of spectacular Stories in Light. Collaborating with talented regional artists and animators, illuminart’s brand new animated stories combine local knowledge, ideas…
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Through the looking glass mystery boxes
“Through the looking glass” mystery boxes National Science Week provides an opportunity as a stimulus to provide examples of how you can engage students with relevant and meaningful activities while supporting teachers by building their capacity to understand how to develop links across curriculum areas. A kit will be produced for Year level bands to access during National Science Week. The…
The Science of Soap
Participants will get to make soap while learning about chemical reactions and processes such as exothermic reactions and saponification. The session will be jointly run by a soap making expert and science teacher who can talk through scientific processes as we go. All participants will make some soap which they will be able to take…
The National STEM Communicators Challenge: Hidden Mathematics at Work
To celebrate National Science Week, the Mathematical Sciences Institute at the Australian National University is proud to present The National STEM Communicators Challenge: Hidden Mathematics at Work. This initiative aims to draw attention to the secret role of mathematics in almost everything we do and develop the next generation of science communicators. The activity has two parts: The…
Critters of the Karuah River
Students from local schools (as well as their families) are invited to come up to Riverwood Downs to learn about the animals of the Karuah River, how we’re finding them and what we can learn from them. eDNA is a new technology which is revolutionising how we can learn about our natural environment. Water samples…
Who Wants to be an Epidemiologist?
More than just a scientist in the lab with a test tube, epidemiologists are disease detectives charged with finding the causes and solutions to epidemics and disease. In an era of overwhelming global health issues, would you like to know what a career in public health looks like? Well… here is your chance to get…
Dark Matter in the Pub
One of the greatest mysteries of science is dark matter – an invisible substance that seems to be all around galaxies, affecting how they rotate. Maybe it’s right here around us as well, but we can’t see it. The ARC Dark Matter Particle Physics Centre of Excellence is setting out to detect it, in a…
Physics in the Pub
Quantum Light, the Aurora and Prophecies What makes the aurora so beautiful? Why is science predatory? How can airline weight limits help us solve the Biggest Problems in physics? All will be revealed when local Sydney physicists take to the stage for Physics in the Pub. Quizzes, comedy and damn interesting science are on the…
Science Week at Southern Cross Catholic College
In line with the National Science Week theme of Glass: More than meets the eye, at lunchtimes the secondary school students will make jelly optic fibres, light bulbs, and poster competition on glass: more than meets the eye. There will be opportunities for students to use glass prisms to spilt sunlight. The College has four…
Serious Game Design with Year 4 students
In this sequence of lessons, students will design and program a serious game in Scratch, to educate others about how living things depend on each other and the environment to survive.