Note: due to the ACT COVID-19 lockdown, this event will now take place entirely online. Did you know that when food and other organic waste goes to landfill, it breaks down in a way that produces methane? While this might not seem bad, methane is a key driver of climate change. Fortunately, there’s a simple…
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Rescheduled: Griffith Public School Healthy Foods Installation
Students in Stage 3 will work together to create a healthy food pyramid installation within the school grounds. Students will work within their class groups to make clay models of healthy foods. This will then be painted, sealed and attached to a timber A-frame for installation within the playground. This ties into their OzHarvest FEAST…
Rescheduled: ANU Women* in STEM Morning Tea
Rescheduled due to the ACT COVID lockdown. A collaboration between the Joint Colleges of Science Representatives and Science Society ANU, this event will feature a panel of academics and researchers from the ANU and wider ACT research community who identify as women, woman-aligned or experience gendered oppression as a result of being perceived as a…
Stuart Park Primary School – STEM Food Towers
Each class in the school will be exposed to a very special National Science Week lesson. The lesson will consist of an introduction to National Science Week, highlighting the theme Food: Different by Design and its relevance and importance to society. Then the students will engage in a STEM challenge, using food to design and…
Taminmin College Science Week
This event has had to be modified from a whole school expo to individual class activities due to restrictions surrounding Covid-19. Students from both agriculture and science classes will undertake projects related to food production. These may include: Raising quails: Year 10 agriculture students will hatch and raise quails. They will demonstrate how these animals…
CQ Festival of Food: the scientific processes involved in food
The program includes four different themed science experiment workshops and end of National Science Week virtual showcase. Each experiment theme will have focused activities for four cohorts Prep-Year 2, Year 3-4 and Year 5-6 and the general community. The content will be based on the Australian Curriculum Design and Technologies: Food and Fibre production. CQUniversity…
AstroBeer Launch
A question we asked ourselves over a couple of beers at the BrewPub was, if we were going to go to space then could we brew beer? To make beer we need yeast, so could yeast ever survive in space? Well, we teamed up with Canberra-based aerospace company SuperSky Engineering to find out. With two…
Switch on Science- Primary link
Due to COVID restrictions events delayed until week of 6th -10th September 2021 In science week 2021 Ipswich State High School will switch on to science with a week of events designed to switch students on to what science can offer. The events will run over the week and reach a large number of students…
Rescheduled: Nature Detectives: Go Wild with Science!
Rescheduled due to the COVID lockdown – new date Friday 27 August A fun and interactive science-based nature play session for families with young explorers aged 2-5 years. This event is all about getting families outside in nature to stop, look and learn more about natural environments. Children will examine and investigate science in a…
Water Testing for Acidity and Alkalinity
This activity is part of the National Science Week STEAM Spectacular at Charles Darwin University. It is designed to help understand the importance of pH and how pH works. Water is used in a variety of different ways in society and nature, and the pH of water can have a significant impact on its function….