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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Exploring Space: Video Conference
Take one small step, then a giant leap as we investigate the exploration of our Solar System. In teams, learners will work in a coding unplugged game with Scratch as they look at how robots learn to explore hostile worlds such as Mars. Following the group work, different Stages blast off to investigate: the causes…
Educator Led: Forces and Nature
School groups from Stage 1 to 6 can explore our exhibitions with an educator in small groups of 15. Using constructionist approaches from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, our educators help learners explore known and unknown elements of science and design while investigating energy, forces and history. For primary students. Booking essential.
Research Symposium
This hybrid one-day event features talks, presentations, conversations, and creative work on inter-disciplinary aspects of our earthly and non-earthly atmospheres. Program Welcome and Opening 9.30am Opening remarks by Dr Deborah Lawler-Dormer and Professor Juan Salazar. Opening Panel: First Nations Astronomy and Sydney Observatory 9.45am First Nations Sydney Observatory resident William Barton, composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist…
Family Day: Science
Powerhouse Castle Hill presents a free family day of demonstrations, talks and hands-on activities focused on themes of Trace. Experience objects from the Powerhouse science collection, see our Mars Rover in action, get making with creative activities that connect with technology and innovation on display at Castle Hill. Program Powerhouse Science Collection Open 10am–4pm Curator-led…
Think Tank Expo
Students in Year 5 and 6 at Park Ridge Primary School are working on Think Tank Projects to present at a Think Tank Expo in National Science Week. These projects are focussed on innovations in current and future industries. They need to come with an idea, work out the science, technology, and design elements, and…
Brain Break – St Luke’s CPS
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.
Bird Brain @ Clarkson Library
The study of animal cognition is a growing area in the scientific community. Defined as the way animals perceive, take in, store, and act on information from their environment, cognition is vital for animals to be able to make decisions, respond to changes, and plastically alter their behaviour. Join three scientists from the University of…
Bird Brain @ Girrawheen Library
The study of animal cognition is a growing area in the scientific community. Defined as the way animals perceive, take in, store, and act on information from their environment, cognition is vital for animals to be able to make decisions, respond to changes, and plastically alter their behaviour. Join three scientists from the University of…
Bird Brain @ Wanneroo Library
The study of animal cognition is a growing area in the scientific community. Defined as the way animals perceive, take in, store, and act on information from their environment, cognition is vital for animals to be able to make decisions, respond to changes, and plastically alter their behaviour. Join three scientists from the University of…