Meet Queensland Museum Assistant Curator, Tess Shingles and see some of our special objects from the museum collection. In light of the National Science Week school theme Glass: More than meets the eye, Tess will present objects from Queensland Museum’s collection to reveal Bottled Health: The benefits of glass for peddling dangerous medicines and cure- alls….
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Brain Break – Hyphen Wodonga Library Gallery
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.
Brain Break – Gibbs Street Primary School
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.
The Great Aussie BioQuest
The Great Aussie BioQuest is a citizen science competition where participants use their mobile phones to upload photos of insects, birds, spiders, reptiles, fungi – basically any wild plant or animal they can find — as they compete to help map their local biodiversity for scientific research and conservation. In previous years, the BioQuest was…
Brain Break – Warra State School
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.
Navigating the Stars with the First Astronomers
Explore details of his stellar study of the cultural astronomy and songline connections and rediscover stargazing through the eyes of Australia’s First Peoples. Australian Aboriginal peoples, who arrived in what is now the Australian continent approximately 65,000 years ago, are now accepted as the modern peoples with the longest continuous culture on Earth. Their culture,…
Brain Break – Strathmore Secondary College
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.
Brain Break – Woombye State School
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.
Marble Run
Join us in creating Hobsons Bay’s biggest ever marble run. Help us to construct a course out of recycled materials and pool noodles to keep the marble rolling.
Misinformation
Experts from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency will be discussing some of the misinformation about radio waves as part of National Science Week. Wireless telecommunication technologies like 5G use radio waves to transfer information. But the roll-out of 5G has raised concerns about the effects it may have on our health. In…